An Enhanced-Solvent Deasphalting Process: Effect of Inclusion of SiO₂ Nanoparticles in the Quality of Deasphalted Oil

Table 3

Ostwald-de Waele estimated parameters from rheological experiments for DAO after the SDA and -SDA processes with an SOR of 8 at 70°C using SiO₂ nanoparticles and -heptane as the solvent.

Parameter	SDA	e-SDA
K (cP·s)	18410	11699
n (dimensionless)	1.005	0.998
RSME%	0.53	0.40
	0.19	0.17