With substantial contributions from experienced industrial scientists and engineers, this work will have real application towards improving process efficiency and improvement in the trillion-dollar global petroleum industry. It presents an overview of the emerging field of petroleomics, which endeavors to understand the fundamental components of crude oil. Petroleomics presents an entirely new field and a new way to study petroleum. It promises to revolutionize petroleum science in much the same way that genomics transformed the study of medicine not long ago. Asphaltenes are a particular focus, with many chapters devoted to the analysis of their structure and properties.

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Petroleomics is the prediction of all properties of petroleum based on the Petroleome, or complete listing of all components in a given crude oil. As it is developed, petroleomics will lead petroleum science into a bright new future, and it is the major focus of this book. A necessary step has been to resolve the molecular size and structure of asphaltene and its hierarchical aggregate structures, as well as the dynamics of asphaltenes. This is especially important for heavy oils. Flow assurance concerns and interfacial science are also treated. The technological development of downhole fluid analysis addresses the most important issues in deepwater production of oil.

Petroleum science and technology are treated in a vertically integrated manner. This book is indispensable for the scientist concerned with petroleum, heavy oils, interfacial science, or flow assurance. Science and technology are treated seamlessly; thus this book will also greatly benefit technologists who areconcerned with the production of oil, refining of oil, or heavy oil processing.

Zusammenfassung
This book represents an amalgam of objectives related to the study of petroleum at many,diverselevels. Themostimportantattributeanythrivingtechnical?eldmust have is an injection and infusion of dedicated, expert, young scientists who have absorbed from their elders the fascination of scienti?c mystery coupled with the fundamental satisfaction of revelation and providing contribution. And, of course, these youthful practitioners must also learn to challenge the authority of their - ders. Fromexperienceswithmyownstudents,thisseemsnottobeaproblem. Many chapters in this book are coauthored by young scientists yielding the prognosis of continued health of our scienti?c ?eld. Indeed, I am quite proud that several of my own chapters in this book are coauthored with students and young engineers of enormous capability. It is a humbling honor to help delineate direction of this formidable talent. It is incumbent upon my generation of scientists to provide a vision of the future. In this book, weconnect the scienti?c excellence of the past with a vision for petroleum science, Petroleomics. Medical science of the past has been of singular societal focus with scienti?c discoveries of enormous import. Nevertheless,Genomicsisrevolutionaryinthatcausalrelationsinmedicalscience are being established with scienti?c exactitude and fundamental understanding. Genomics is creating a predictive medical science that was but a dream for p- vious generations. In a similar way, scienti?c advances described in this book are laying the foundations for Petroleomicsthe challenge and framework to agitate ouryouthfulcontributors. Petroleomicsembodiestheestablishmentofstructure function relations in petroleum science with particular focus on asphaltenes, the most enigmatic of petroleum components.

Inhalt
Petroleomics and StructureFunction Relations of Crude Oils and Asphaltenes.- Asphaltene Molecular Size and Weight by Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depolarization.- Petroleomics: Advanced Characterization of Petroleum-Derived Materials by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR MS).- Molecular Orbital Calculations and Optical Transitions of PAHs and Asphaltenes.- Carbon X-ray Raman Spectroscopy of PAHs and Asphaltenes.- Sulfur Chemical Moieties in Carbonaceous Materials.- Micellization.- Insights into Molecular and Aggregate Structures of Asphaltenes Using HRTEM.- Ultrasonic Spectroscopy of Asphaltene Aggregation.- Asphaltene Self-Association and Precipitation in SolventsAC Conductivity Measurements.- Molecular Composition and Dynamics of Oils from Diffusion Measurements.- Application of the PC-SAFT Equation of State to Asphaltene Phase Behavior.- Application of Isothermal Titration Calorimetry in the Investigation of Asphaltene Association.- Petroleomics andCharacterization of Asphaltene Aggregates Using Small Angle Scattering.- Self-Assembly of Asphaltene Aggregates: Synchrotron, Simulation and Chemical Modeling Techniques Applied to Problems in the Structure and Reactivity of Asphaltenes.- Solubility of the Least-Soluble Asphaltenes.- Dynamic Light Scattering Monitoring of Asphaltene Aggregation in Crude Oils and Hydrocarbon Solutions.- Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Study Asphaltene Aggregation in Solvents.- Phase Behavior of Heavy Oils.- Selective Solvent Deasphalting for Heavy Oil Emulsion Treatment.- The Role of Asphaltenes in Stabilizing Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsions.- Live Oil Sample Acquisition and Downhole Fluid Analysis.- Precipitation and Deposition of Asphaltenes in Production Systems: A Flow Assurance Overview.