PREDICTION OF KINEMATIC VISCOSITY OF CRUDE-OIL FROM CHROMATOGRAPHIC DATA

A new approach to characterization of the kinematic viscosity of crude oil was developed using gas chromatography. With the LSER equation of Abraham (1993), five parameters (intermolecular interaction terms) we re obtained characterizing 25 crude oils physicochemically and allowin g kinematic viscosity models to be set up using three different multiv ariate analysis methods. The validity, chemical sense and applications of these models are discussed. Gas chromatography allows access to ph ysicochemical properties that crude oil behaviour, e.g. viscosity, can be modelled. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.