<p>Crude oil is a
mixture of hydrocarbons so complex that it is predicted to comprise as many
compounds as there are genes in the human genome. Developing methods to not
only recover crude oil from the ground but also to convert crude oil into
desirable products is challenging due to its complex nature. Thus, the
petroleum industry relies heavily on analytical techniques to characterize the
oil in reservoirs prior to enhanced oil recovery efforts and to evaluate the
chemical compositions of their crude oil based products. Mass spectrometry (MS)
is the only analytical technique that has the potential to provide elemental composition
as well as structural information for the individual compounds that comprise
petroleum samples. The
continuous development of ionization techniques and mass analyzers, and other
instrumentation advances, have primed mass spectrometry as the go-to analytical
technique for providing solutions to problems faced by the petroleum industry.
The research discussed in this dissertation can be divided into three parts:
developing novel mass spectrometry-based methods to characterize mixtures of
saturated hydrocarbons in petroleum products (Chapters 3 and 5), exploring the
cause of fragmentation of saturated hydrocarbons upon atmospheric pressure
chemical ionization to improve the analysis of samples containing these
compounds (Chapter 4), and developing a better understanding of the chemical
composition of crude oil that tightly binds to reservoir surfaces to improve
chemically enhanced oil recovery (Chapter 6). </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12127431 |
| Date | 17 April 2020 |
| Creators | Jeremy M Manheim (6594134) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/MASS_SPECTROMETRY_IONIZATION_STUDIES_AND_METHOD_DEVELOPMENT_FOR_THE_ANALYSIS_OF_COMPLEX_MIXTURES_OF_SATURATED_HYDROCARBONS_AND_CRUDE_OIL/12127431 |
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