Structural Characterisation of Asphaltenes during Residue Hydrotreatment with Light Cycle Oil as an Additive

Table 2

Structural data obtained by XRD.

	AR-F-ASP	AR-P-ASP	ARLCO-P-ASP	Equation^*	Reference
, Å	4.39	4.53	4.63		[23]
, Å	3.81	3.56	3.70		[23]
, Å	26.29	19.51	18.13		[23]
	6.90	5.48	4.90		[23]
, Å	13.04	10.43	9.23		[23]
	4.70	4.36	3.46		[24]
CAu	22.39	20.91	17.01		[24]

Where λ = 1.54055 Å; , , and are the diffraction angles of , 002, and 10 bands, respectively; is the width at half maximum of diffraction peak.