Separation Science approaches to the Analysis and visualisation of Complex Petrochemical Materials

“原油”这个词在人们的脑海中会让人联想到一种高度凌乱的材料，需要经过加工才能产生有用的材料。这确实是正确的，但它掩盖了原油是不同化合物的高度复杂混合物的事实。该项目涉及石油分析：原油，加工和老化使用一些不同的质谱法为基础的方法。我们的目标是使用同位素比质谱法来研究一个油库的同位素特征，以使来源和分类，以评估这些信息是否可能在欺诈检测中有用。我们还将使用高分辨率质谱法研究这些油，以确定化学特征，并研究这些特征如何通过分馏，加工和老化而改变。这项工作将评估这些数据在项目伙伴感兴趣的一些成果方面的用途。

The description 'crude oil' conjures up in the minds of people a highly messy material that needs to be processed to generate useful materials. This is indeed true, but it hides the fact that the crude oil is a highly complex mixture of different compounds. This project concerns the analysis of oils: crude, processed and aged using a number of different mass spectrometry based methods. We aim to use Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry to investigate the isotopic signature of a library of oils for to enable provenancing and categorizing to evaluate if this information might be useful in fraud detection. We will also investigate these oils using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry to determine chemical profiles and investigate how these profiles alter through fractionation, processing and ageing. This work will evaluate the uses of this data for a number of outcomes of interest to the project partner.