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[As I See It]

Looks like someone needs to go to an anger management class. Over 300 words of venom is not healthy.

I have already addressed the question of whether crude oil is polar or not in great detail with you before.

You are confusing hydrocarbons with crude oil. [color=red]They are not the same thing![/color]

I will not waste any more time on this except to copy and paste a previous post of mine which addresses the subject.




As I See It

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Sunday, June 11, 2023 5:28:59 PM
Post# of 56279
Strangely, I find myself looking forward to the next deranged but weirdly entertaining post like the one below. It must be the fact free zone that the poster lives in.

I hear excuses but you can’t answer even answer the most basic question on how the effect works on non-polar ever changing multi batched heavy crude oil........
Crude is nonpolar so Tao conclusion has not been verified or confirmed by anyone outside of his students or China who duplicate his reports and findings verbatim.

Because the quotes above are just made up nonsense let me see if I can straighten out the mess. The central claim of this poster is that crude oil is non-polar and can't be polarized as that would (wait for it) violate the "laws of mother nature". If true the AOT can't work. However, within 15 minutes of searching on the internet you can find dozens of references to the polar aspects of crude. Here are a few:

Asphaltenes and resins are the polar and saturates and aromatics are the nonpolar fractions of the crude oil. The mutual interaction within crude oil fractions results in different overall polarity.

Heavy and extra-heavy oils are expected to become an excellent alternative to conventional oil in the future, but the complexity of their composition makes their flow under natural conditions without flow assurance problems extremely difficult. The high viscosity of 103 to 106 cP and the lower API gravity, i.e. (less than 20 for heavy oil and 10 for extra heavy oil) are mainly due to the high content of high molecular weight components such as waxes, asphaltenes and resins. Also, the presence of heteroatoms and metals makes asphaltene the most polar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, leading to its self-association with the formation of a viscoelastic network of nanoaggregates resulting in an increase in viscosity (Taborda et al., 2017a, 2017b; Montes et al., 2019; Anto et al., 2020).

Petroleum consists of a complex mixture of substances, the predominant constituents being saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons. Minor components are heteroatomic compounds containing nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur atoms.

The concentration of those constituents depends on the petroleum origin and geologic history. Because chemical composition and polarity are intimately associated, the polarity of a crude oil depends on its constituents-particularly, the heterocompounds.

Those heteroatomic compounds are concentrated in the heaviest fractions of crude oils, traditionally called resins and asphaltenes. They possess surface activity and stabilize water-in-oil emulsions.'

Heterocompounds include a wide variety of polar and polarizable molecules that interact with each other. The polarity resulting from their synergistic action among themselves, and with the predominantly paraffinic and aromatic medium, is the polarity shown by the crude.


Denser and more viscous crude oils have greater concentrations of other components, including resins and asphaltenes, which contain more polar compounds, often including “heteroatoms” of nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen as well as carbon and hydrogen.

It is obvious (to all but one) that crude oil is polar. Higher concentrations of polar fractions also results in greater viscosity. IMHO, that is why Applied Oil Technology lab tests have achieved the most dramatic results with the heaviest crude.

It should be noted that if the polar fraction is small that probably won't be part of the AOT target market.