eprintid: 8321 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/83/21 datestamp: 2023-11-09 16:20:12 lastmod: 2023-11-09 16:20:12 status_changed: 2023-11-09 16:12:21 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Zafar, F. creators_name: Mandal, P.C. creators_name: Shaari, K.Z.B.K. creators_name: Nadeem, S. title: Total acid number reduction kinetics of naphthenic acids using non-catalytic subcritical methanol ispublished: pub note: cited By 1; Conference of 2nd International Conference on Applied Science and Technology 2017, ICAST 2017 ; Conference Date: 3 April 2017 Through 5 April 2017; Conference Code:130920 abstract: Naphthenic acids (NAs) are weak organic acids present in the heavy crude oil and Oil Sand Bitumens. Whereas, the NAs are the major cause of corrosion in different processing, handling and storage equipment's of the refinery. Esterification of these acids can be an interesting method to reduce the NAs content in the crude oil besides its esters are valuable commodity and can be used as added lubricant in the oils. In this study, NAs reduction kinetics were investigated in a batch type reactor with subcritical methanol, the experiments were performed at temperatures of 150-210°C and fixed methanol partial pressure of 2 MPa. Findings of this study demonstrate that the 59 of total acid number (TAN) reduction was achieved at the temperature of 210°C, methanol partial pressure of 2 MPa and reaction time of 150 min. The TAN reduction followed second order kinetics with activation energy and frequency factor of 54.15 KJ/mol and 7.6�103, respectively. These results suggest that subcritical methanol can be an effective to reduce the TAN non-catalytically. © 2017 Author(s). date: 2017 publisher: American Institute of Physics Inc. official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031280505&doi=10.1063%2f1.5005481&partnerID=40&md5=79e1901468fba020dcf3883b2bfc90ba id_number: 10.1063/1.5005481 full_text_status: none publication: AIP Conference Proceedings volume: 1891 refereed: TRUE isbn: 9780735415737 issn: 0094243X citation: Zafar, F. and Mandal, P.C. and Shaari, K.Z.B.K. and Nadeem, S. (2017) Total acid number reduction kinetics of naphthenic acids using non-catalytic subcritical methanol. In: UNSPECIFIED.