Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. About the Editor V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. 1 Introduction to oil chemistry 1
6. 2 Chemical fingerprints and chromatographic analysis of crude oils and petroleum products 47
7. 3 Advances in Fourier transform mass spectrometry forensic tools for naphthenic acid fraction compounds in oil sand environmental samples and crude oil 127
8. 4 Heavy oil resin composition and their influence on asphaltene stability 177
9. 5 Asphaltenes: structures and applications 203
10. 6 Asphaltene equation of state and oilfield reservoirs 307
11. 7 Molecular distributions and geochemical implications of pyrrolic nitrogen compounds in crude oils 361
12. 8 Analysis of petroleum-related samples by soft ionization/high-resolution mass spectrometry 383
13. 9 Non-combustion applications of petroleum chemistry 423
14. 10 Biomarkers in crude oils 449
15. 11 Photooxidation of crude oil: formation, characterization, and fate of oil photoproducts in the environment 519
16. 12 Molecular structure characterization of crude oil and its products by mass spectrometry 547
17. 13 The distillation precipitation fractionation mass spectrometry (DPF-MS) method for molecular profiling of crude oil 619
18. 14 Hyphenated gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques for the analysis of crude oil and petroleum products 643
19. List of contributing authors 679
20. Index 683