(95d) Ultraviolet Analysis of the Toluene Fraction in Bitumen from Agbadu (Western Nigeria)
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2008
2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division - Jointly Co-sponsored with ACS
Petrochemicals and Derivatives I
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 9:20am to 9:45am
Bitumen sample obtained from one of the wells sunk by the
Nigerian Bitumen Corporation (NBC 7) located opposite saint Stephen's primary school, Agbabu, Ondo state Nigeria was analyzed. The four fractions (saturates, simple aromatics, higher aromatics and polar compound) obtained from chromatographic analysis were further subjected to instrumental analysis of the Toluene fraction revealed the presence of some conjugated
bonds which could either be dienes or enols. Whether it is dienes or enols that are present, we cannot tell as only further analysis somewhat stronger than ultra violet can be able to tell us. This however is out of the scope of this analysis.