Abstract:
This work is aimed to study a characteristic of gas production during thermal and
catalytic processing on combustion of heavy oil. Oil/sand sample was subjected
to a linear heating program 5oC/min from room temperature to a set point
temperature 400oC under continuous flowing of air 250 ml/min on a low pressure
3 bar. Combustion gases produced were allowed to flow to a condenser and
further were flowed through a drierite bed prior to measure by a GC continuously.
Combustion gases produced and oxygen consumption profiles were confirmed
that the combustion process has been successfully conducted during
experiments. A lighter oil of 23.3oAPI was produced from the catalytic run
compared with oil of 19.3oAPI resulted from the non-catalytic run.
