Undoubtedly bitumen's viscoelastic performance has received much attention in the
literature. Especially, the oxidative ageing phenomenon of bitumen has been studied by …

As a significant unconventional petroleum resource, heavy oil plays a crucial strategic,
economic, and technological role in China. Its extraction enhances domestic energy …

In petroleum science, asphaltenes are well-known as the most refractory fraction of crude oil
and remain infamous for problems in production, transportation, and refining processes …

Using a rejuvenator to increase the dose of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) materials in
asphalt mixtures is a sustainable practice in the pavement industry. However, the …

Asphaltenes and resins remaining after heavy crude oil deasphalting (termed asphaltenes)
require rational utilization. Due to their surface activity, such utilization can consist in …

Heavy oil and bitumen drive the leading energy supply in Canada. Several techniques,
including in situ thermal methods and mining, have been applied to the recovery of these …

Recent advances in instrumentation for high-field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance
mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) have enabled access to∼ 70 000 unique molecular …

Many reservoirs worldwide received separate charges of primary biogenic gas and oil. In
high pressure provinces such as the Gulf of Mexico, the added gas should be in solution if …

Asphaltenes comprise the heaviest and least understood fraction of crude petroleum. The
asphaltenes are a diverse and complex mixture of organic and organometallic molecules in …

The molecular structures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from different sources
(coal-derived asphaltenes (CA), petroleum-derived asphaltenes (PA) and soot (S)), that …