Crude oil - polar or non-polar?
Crude oil - polar or non-polar?
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Does anyone know if (in general) crude oil is s polar or non-polar liquid? I'm trying to evaluate the potential (no pun intended) for crude oil to accumulate static charge as it enters a tank at high velocity and as particles drift down through it.





RE: Crude oil - polar or non-polar?
I would say that crudes are non-polar. It may, however, contain some polar componds.
Best regards
Morteb
RE: Crude oil - polar or non-polar?
I think it also related to the method of entry into the tank and it was all associated with the potential for static electricity.
In any event documents such as this are pretty easy to discover with google:
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Even Wikipedia has a useful comment on "electrostatics".
A useful article here:
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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