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Procedures for the Selection of Real Components to Characterize Petroleum Mixtures

A. Ba, E. Eckert, and T. Vanìk

Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, CZ-166 28 Prague

E-mail: Egon.Eckert@vscht.cz

Received: 10 April 2002

Abstract: An alternative approach to the characterization of petroleum mixtures is shown. Traditional methods can be abandoned when real components instead of pseudo-components are selected to form the substitute mixture. Algorithms for the selection of real components and for the determination of the mixture composition are presented. Also questions concerning the requirements on a database of real components used for this purpose are discussed. Application of the proposed approach is illustrated on a practical example.

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Chemical Papers 57 (1) 53–62 (2003)