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Título: THERMODYNAMIC-BASED, ONE-DIMENSIONAL LIQUID-SOLID MIXTURE MODEL TO PREDICT WAX DEPOSITION
Autor: FABIO GASPAR SANTOS JUNIOR
Colaborador(es): ANGELA OURIVIO NIECKELE - Orientador
IVAN FERNNEY IBANEZ AGUILAR - Coorientador
Catalogação: 14/DEZ/2021 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=56556&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=56556&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.56556
Resumo:
Wax deposition is one of the main problems when it comes to flow assurance. The hot fluid which leaves the reservoirs is transported by pipelines that exchange heat with the cold environment. Solid particles precipitate when the fluid reaches temperatures below the WAT (Wax Appearance Temperature). It causes not only an increase in viscosity, but also the formation of deposits on the pipe walls, reducing the cross-flow area and the production, or even totally obstructing the pipe, resulting in a significant maintenance effort and causing large capital losses. This problem is quite recurrent, therefore, predicting of wax deposition is crucial for pipeline projects and operations, and it is necessary to develop numerical models that provide accurate and efficient results. Considering that pipelines are very long, the present work proposes a one-dimensional hydrodynamic model with a two-dimensional heat transfer model being obtained through a marching process along the pipeline. All properties and solid volumetric fraction are determined as a function of fluid composition, pressure and temperature, from tables interpolation created with a thermodynamic model in a pre-processing step. The model considers the deposit existence on the pipe wall when the solid volume fraction is equal to or greater than 2 percent. The proposed model was evaluated in different situations, in a laboratory and field scale, presenting temperature, pressure and deposit thickness data in reasonable agreement with literature data, showing that the implemented model reproduces satisfactorily the physical behavior of the wax deposition phenomenon.
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