Chemical Analysis of Sara and Pona Constituents of Plain- Bitumen Seepages Deposit at Agbabu Area of Ondo State South Western Nigeria with their Correlation Matrix Properties
Abstract
Characterization and chemical analysis is a necessary step in identifying the chemical constituents of the heavy unconventional oil (Bitumen) which will give a way forward if the production, modification and refining of the heavy oil in order to supplement and increase the life span of the present conventional natural gasoline. This study presents the (SARA) classification of the bitumen deposit at agbabu village in Ondo state Nigeria, perhaps it is highly rich in Resins, Asphaltene, Saturates or it is Aromatic compounds based oil, so as to determine the economic viability of its production, processing, modifying, refining and its upgrading as a synthetic oil as well as its other uses for engineering purposes. The data assay of these chemical components (SARA) were scrutinized by conducting a comprehensive experimental studies on four different samples of bitumen using an extraction method of column chromatography according to America society for testing and material (ASTM D- 2007) and a detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA) known as PONA column chromatography; was modelled using gas chromatography flame ionization detector (GCFID) according to the (ASTM D- 5134). The results obtained indicate that the bitumen samples have high content of saturates which ranges from (36.5--- 72.6%), low content of resins (6.4 --- 12.5 %), low contents of Asphaltenes (1.8---9.5%) and high contents of Aromatics (16.4----54.2%) samples. From these results, specifically the high content of saturates and aromatics, it is obvious that the bitumen sample is of good quality to be processed for synthetic oil production.
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