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Advances in Elemental Analysis of Hydrocarbon Products

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Probably about half of the elements in the periodic table are found in petroleum products varying in concentration from major percentages of carbon/hydrogen, minor percentages of nitrogen/sulfur, to mg/kg and sub-mg/kg amounts of several transition metals. Much of the presence of inorganic elements in crude oil originate from marine animal and vegetative materials deposited with sediment in sea and coastal waters millions of years ago. Many transition metals such as vanadium, nickel, and iron are of porphyrin origin. Many transition metal elements were incorporated into hydrocarbon skeletons from minerals in the depositional environment of ancient organisms during paleotransformation. For example, vanadium and nickel porphyrins derived from chlorophyll through transmetallation of magnesium. Through refining process much of these inorganic elements are eliminated from the final end products of refining such as gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. Only small amounts of sulfur etc. are left in these end products. Several other inorganic metals remain in other refinery products such as fuel oil and heating oil.

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Kishore Nadkarni, R.A. (2003). Advances in Elemental Analysis of Hydrocarbon Products. In: Hsu, C.S. (eds) Analytical Advances for Hydrocarbon Research. Modern Analytical Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9212-3_2

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