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Fall 2019
During thermal cracking of bitumen, olefins are formed via free radical reactions and are mainly concentrated in the naphtha and distillate cut of the upgraded bitumen. Olefins are undesirable in the upgraded bitumen product because they are associated with equipment fouling. As a result, these...
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Spring 2020
Budnar Subramanya, Annapoorna Shruthi
Bitumen partial upgrading technologies aim to produce a product that meets viscosity and density specifications for pipeline transport with little to no addition of diluents. Thermal cracking processes are attractive for partial upgrading since they result in an increase in the light fractions....