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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2019
Nextstream Heavy Oil, Llc, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Manjusha Verma, Fulshear, TX (US);
Pradeep Venkataraman, Houston, TX (US);
Sivaram Pradhan, Houston, TX (US);
Houman Michael Shammai, Houston, TX (US);
Wilbur Edward Billups, Houston, TX (US);
Scott Wellington, Bellaire, TX (US);
Abstract
Asphaltene may be effectively broken into smaller molecules by first elucidating the structure of the asphaltene and then developing a catalyst system based on the elucidated structure. The structure may be determined based on a series of analytical techniques including NMR, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, XPS, and LDI. The most probable structure is determined using computational methods based on quantum mechanics and classical molecular dynamics and the catalyst system is developed for the most probable structure.