Hello everyone,
Is there any type of vegetable oil that has certain chemical and physical similarities to crude oil - specific gravity, kinematic viscosity, etc.?
Is the color/pigmentation of this type of oil visible in water? - Since I'll need to visually assess the interaction of the oil with the ambient water.
Also, is there any sort of dye (e.g. Potassium Permanganate) that is miscible with olive oil?
Not sure about vegetable oils, but there are several mineral oils used in hydraulic applications that come close to crude oil properties. One can use oils like Thermia-B, and Tellus (which is very viscous).
These oils have usually very little color, as the color in crude oil is created mainly by asphaltenes, which are not present in vegetable oil and mineral oil.
If you need to dye the oil, I would use the organic dye oil-blue. It is an azo dye, wich is oil-soluble.
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