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US 12,736,519 B2Granted
Group-type analysis of hydrocarbon samples
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsHendrik Muller, Mansour Al-Herz, Nadrah A. Alawani, Saroj Kumar Panda, Lianhui Ding
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods for reactivity-based group-type analysis of a hydrocarbon sample. An exemplary method includes determining a representative composition of each of two or more portions of the sample, determining a mass fraction of each of the two or more portions present in the sample, and determining a mass fraction of each representative species present in each of the two or more portions of the sample.
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A method of analyzing a hydrocarbon sample, comprising
- determining a representative composition of each of two or more portions of the sample, wherein each representative composition independently comprises one or more representative species;
- determining a mass fraction of each of the two or more portions present in the sample;
- and
- determining a mass fraction of each representative species present in each of the two or more portions of the sample,
- wherein each representative species is defined by
- a number of carbon atoms;
- a number of alkyl-chain carbon atoms;
- a number of saturated rings;
- a number of aromatic rings;
- and
- a number of sulfur atoms.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.