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The Watson K factor is one of the oldest characterization factors defined in the 1930s by Watson K, et al. at Universal Oil Products. The Kw formula uses the mean average boiling point and specific gravity at 60°C to classify hydrocarbons in petroleum mixtures, with aromatics having low Kw values and paraffins having high values. The U.S. Bureau of Mines Correlation Index is also useful for characterizing crude oil fractions by evaluating individual fractions, with lower CI values indicating more paraffins and higher values indicating more naphthenes and aromatics. An example calculation of Kw and CI for diesel is shown.

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Watson K

The Watson K factor is one of the oldest characterization factors defined in the 1930s by Watson K, et al. at Universal Oil Products. The Kw formula uses the mean average boiling point and specific gravity at 60°C to classify hydrocarbons in petroleum mixtures, with aromatics having low Kw values and paraffins having high values. The U.S. Bureau of Mines Correlation Index is also useful for characterizing crude oil fractions by evaluating individual fractions, with lower CI values indicating more paraffins and higher values indicating more naphthenes and aromatics. An example calculation of Kw and CI for diesel is shown.

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Watson K

The Watson characterization factor denoted by Kw is one of the


oldest characterization factors originally defined by Watson K, et al. of
the Universal Oil Products (UOP) in mid 1930s. The formula for Kw is

Kw = (Tb) 1/3 / SG

Tb = mean average boiling point (OR)


SG = specific gravity at 60O

The formula used to classify the type of hydrocarbons in petroleum


mixtures. The naphthenic hydrocarbons have Kw values between
paraffinic and aromatic compounds where aromatics have low Kw values
while paraffins have high values.

Kw for diesel

Kw = ( 980 OR )1/3 / 0.84


= 11.52

Correlation Index

The U.S. Bureau of Mines Correlation Index (BMCI) or (CI) is useful


for characterization of crude oil fractions by evaluating individual
fractions from crude oils.

CI = (87552 / Tb ) + 473.7 SG − 456.8

Tb = mean average boiling point (OR)


SG = specific gravity at 60O
The CI values are not quantitative, but the lower the CI value, the
greater the concentration of paraffin hydrocarbons in the fraction and
higher the CI value, greater the concentration of naphthenes and
aromatics.

Correlation Index for diesel

CI = (87552 / 980 ) + 473.7 ( 0.84 ) − 456.8


= 30.45

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