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PARAFFINIC SOLVENT [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Solvents and Petroleum Spirits
CONT

The "multi-stage counter-current decantation" process provides partial upgrading in the field. In this process, the extracted bitumen is blended with a paraffinic solvent which promotes the precipitation of asphaltenes, and thereby removes most of the carbon-laden or coke-producing components in the mixture.

OBS

paraffinic: of, relating to, or characterized by paraffin hydrocarbons or paraffin wax.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Solvants et essences spéciales (Pétrole)
CONT

[...] un procédé de décantation à contre-courant et étages multiples qui permettra une valorisation partielle in situ. Ce procédé consiste à mélanger au bitume un solvant paraffinique qui, en provoquant la précipitation des asphaltènes, élimine la majeure partie des constituants carbonés responsables de la formation de coke.

OBS

paraffinique: Qui se rapporte aux paraffines.

OBS

paraffine: mélange d'alcanes qui se rencontre dans la nature (ozocérite) ou dans les résidus de la distillation du pétrole.

Spanish

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