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Planar chromatographic separation of petroleum residues and coal-derived liquids |
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| Authors: | J. -P. Deelchand Z. Naqvi C. Dubau J. Shearman M. -J. Lazaro A. A. Herod H. Read R. Kandiyoti |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College, University of London, London SW7 2BY, UK b Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1 H0PP, UK |
| Abstract: | Vacuum distillation residues from two petroleum crudes, a coal liquefaction extract and a coal tar pitch have been fractionated by planar chromatography (PC) using two solvent sequences: pyridine–acetonitrile and tetrahydrofuran (THF)–toluene. Fractions recovered from PC were examined by UV-fluorescence spectroscopy (UV-F), size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). UV-F and SEC of the whole samples showed differences in aromatic cluster size and molecular mass (MM) ranges which could be related to the different origins of the samples. The MM ranges indicated by SEC were greater for the vacuum residues than for coal-derived materials. However, the UV-F spectra of the fractions indicated that the petroleum residue fractions contained similar aromatic types, whereas the fractions from coal liquids contained significantly different aromatic types. SEC profiles of the fractions indicated a separation of coal-derived samples by increasing molecular size with increasing immobility in PC, whereas for petroleum fractions, the same trend was not apparent. MALDI-mass spectra of the set of original samples showed broadly similar ranges of MM distributions but additional work is necessary to identify appropriate matrices and procedures in order to improve the MALDI spectra. |
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