Study on Colloidal Model of Petroleum Residues through the Attraction Potential between Colloids

Table 4

The suggested colloidal model.

	Cores	Absorbent	Medium	Proposed by
Model #1	Asphaltenes		Heavy resins, middle resins, light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics	Mack [17]
Mode #2	Asphaltenes	Heavy resins, middle resins, light resins, and heavy aromatics, steadily	Saturates plus light aromatics	Pfeiffer and Van Doormaal [18]
Mode #3	Asphaltenes and heavy resins		Heavy resins, middle resins, light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics
Mode #4	Asphaltenes	Heavy resins	Middle resins, light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics
Mode #5	Asphaltenes	Heavy resins and middle resins	Light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics
Mode #6	Asphaltenes, heavy resins, and middle resins		Light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics
Mode #7	Asphaltenes and heavy resins	Middle resins	Light resins, heavy aromatics, and saturates plus light aromatics	Mullins [14]