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Program predicts reformate properties, including octane, vapor pressure, and gravity

Sept. 9, 1996

Full text and program Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo and Instituto Politócnico Nacional have developed a GW-Basic program for characterizing gasoline streams from catalytic reforming units. The program is based on the physicochemical properties of 116 pure components that make up reformate feedstock and product. The program requires as input data the results of a Piano gas chromatography analysis (Piano = paraffins, isoparaffins, aromatics, naphthenes, and olefins). Using these data,

Full text and program

Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo and Instituto Politócnico Nacional have developed a GW-Basic program for characterizing gasoline streams from catalytic reforming units. The program is based on the physicochemical properties of 116 pure components that make up reformate feedstock and product.

The program requires as input data the results of a Piano gas chromatography analysis (Piano = paraffins, isoparaffins, aromatics, naphthenes, and olefins). Using these data, the program estimates 14 reformate properties:

Research octane number
Motor octane number
Reid vapor pressure
Specific gravity
Molecular weight
Cubic average boiling point
Volumetric average boiling point
Molar average boiling point
Weight average boiling point
Mean average boiling point
Critical pressure
Critical volume
Critical temperature
Characterization factor.

Authors of the program are Jorge Ancheyta-Jurez, Ernesto Mariaca-Do mn guez, Enrique Aguilar-Rodrguez, and Alfredo Escobar-López.

The program is available through OGL Online, the Journal's Internet-based energy information service, at http://www.ogjonline.com. An exclusive article describing the program also is available. If you want the program and are not a subscriber to OGJ Online, please complete the online registration form, or call 800-OGJINFO.