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The monograph Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis is based mainly on results of more than twelve years research work on the application of thernioanalytical methods to petroleum and its products during the activities of the author at the German Institute for Petroleum Research. It was very interesting to research the application of well defined physical methods, such as thermogravimeiry and differential scanning calorimetry, to the multicomponent systems of petroleum and its products, and to understand the limits of those methods on the one hand and the excellent transferability of the results to technical processes on the other. The diversity of possible applications of thernioanalytical methods to various problems in the petroleum laboratory can only be indicated in this monograph.
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Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis by. Heinz Kopsch CopyrightoVCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1995 Heinz Kopsch Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis 0VCH VerlagsgesellschaftmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany, 1995 Distribution: VCH, PO. Box 10 1161, D-69451 Weinheim,Federal Republic of Germany Switzerland:VCH, PO. Box, CH-4020 Basel, Switzerland United Kingdom and Ireland: VCH, 8 Wellington Court, Cambridge CB1 lHZ, United Kingdom USA and Canada: VCH, 220 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010-4606,USA Japan: VCH, E k o w Building, 10-9 Hongo 1-chome,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo 113,Japan ISBN 3-527-28740-X Heinz Kopsch Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis 4b VCH Weinheim . New York . Base1 - Cambridge - Tokyo Dr. rer. nat. Heinz Kopsch Institut fur Technische Chemie T.U. Clausthal ErzstraBe 18 D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany This book was carefully produced. Nevertheless, the author and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations,procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Published jointly by VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim (Federal Republic of Germany) VCH Publishers, Inc., New York, NY (USA) Editorial Director: Dr. Barbara Bijck Production Manager: Peter J. Biel The cover photo shows a view of part of the BASF steamcracker in Antwerp. (Courtesy of BASF Aktiengesellschaft Ludwigshafen,Germany) Library of Congress Card No. applied for British Library Cataloguing-in-PublicationData: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Kopsch, He& Thermal methods in petroleum analysis / Heinz Kopsch. Weinheim ; New York ; Base1 ; Cambridge ;Tokyo : VCH, 1995 ISBN 3-527-28740-X 0VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany, 1995 Printed on acid-free and low-chlorine paper All rights reserved (including those of translation into other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form - by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means - nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by law. Composition:Graph. Werkstatten Lehne GmbH, D-41516 Grevenbroich Printing and Bookbinding: Paderborner Druck Centrum. D-33100 Paderborn Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany Preface The monograph Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis is based mainly on results of more than twelve years research work on the application of thermoanalytical methods to petroleum and its products during the activities of the author at the German Institute for Petroleum Research. It was very interesting to research the application of well defined physical methods, such as thermogravimetry and d