Increasing Distillates Yield in Low Temperature Cracking Process by Using Nanoparticles of Solid Acids

A mixture consisting essentially of:

• crude oil in a weight percentage between 99.999% and 99.8%;
• and
• a plurality of solid acid nanoparticles having a weight percentage between 0.001% and 0.2% and having respective diameters between 3 nm and 1200 nm.

A method of increasing distillate yield in a crude oil distillation, comprising:

• prior to distillation of crude oil, adding hexane and a plurality of solid acid nanoparticles of diameter between 3 nm and 1200 nm to the crude oil to create a crude oil/hexane/nanoparticle mixture;
• and
• distilling the crude oil/hexane/nanoparticle mixture to generate at least one light hydrocarbon and a residue, whereby said residue generated from distilling said crude oil/hexane/nanoparticle mixture is smaller than a residue which would be generated from an identical distillation of the crude oil without said hexane and said solid acid nanoparticles added thereto.

A method of increasing distillate yield in a crude oil distillation, comprising:

• prior to distillation of crude oil, adding a plurality of solid acid nanoparticles of diameter between 3 nm and 1200 nm to the crude oil to create a crude oil/nanoparticle mixture, the solid acid nanoparticles comprising a weight percentage of the crude oil/nanoparticle mixture greater than 0.001% and
• distilling said crude oil/nanoparticle mixture to generate a fractional amount of hydrocarbons and a fractional amount of residue, whereby said fractional amount of hydrocarbons generated from distilling said crude oil/nanoparticle mixture is larger than a fractional amount of hydrocarbons which would be generated from an identical distillation of the crude oil without said solid acid nanoparticles added thereto.