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

“原油”一词在人们的脑海中会让人联想到一种高度混乱的材料，需要经过加工才能产生有用的材料。这的确是事实，但它掩盖了一个事实，即原油是一种由不同化合物组成的高度复杂的混合物。该项目涉及使用多种不同的基于质谱的方法对原油、加工和老化的石油进行分析。我们的目标是使用色谱分离方法和质谱法来研究油类库的复杂有机特征，以便更接近于分析基础油和全配方油的单步方法。我们还将使用高分辨率质谱法来研究这些油的化学特征，并研究这些特征在分馏、加工和老化过程中是如何变化的。这项工作将评估这些数据的使用情况，以获得项目合作伙伴感兴趣的一些结果。

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 chromatographic separation methods and Mass Spectrometry to investigate the complex organic signature of a library of oils for to move closer to a single step method for the analysis of both base oils and fully formulated oils. 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.