Título: | IMPACT OF MOLECULAR DIFFUSION MODELS IN THE PREDICTION OF WAX DEPOSITION | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
PAULO GUSTAVO CANDIDO DE OLIVEIRA |
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Colaborador(es): |
ANGELA OURIVIO NIECKELE - Orientador IVAN FERNNEY IBANEZ AGUILAR - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 21/NOV/2022 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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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=61310&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=61310&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.61310 | ||||||||||||
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Petroleum is formed by a chain of hydrocarbons, which precipitates in the
form of solid particles of paraffin, when its temperature drops below a threshold
known as Wax Appearance Temperature (WAT). These particles can be deposited
on the inner walls of the pipelines, obstructing the flow, which can generate losses
in the order of several millions of dollars. For this reason, the ability to predict and
control wax deposition in future events is of fundamental importance for both
designers and operators of pipelines. In an attempt to deal with this problem, a great
effort has been made by the scientific community aiming to improve wax deposition
prediction methodologies. Often, the modeling of species diffusion is performed
using Fick s law, valid for binary mixtures, although the hydrocarbons present in
the oil form a multicomponent solution. The present work proposes to evaluate the
species mass diffusive flux employing the Stefan-Maxwell model, compatible with
multicomponent systems. To determine the axial and temporal evolution of the wax
deposition thickness, the flow was modelled as a liquid/solid mixture and the
conservation equations of energy, mass, linear momentum and species continuity
were solved coupled with the thermodynamic model of multiple solid solutions, to
determine the paraffin precipitation. The conservation equations were solved using
the open-source software OpenFOAM (trademark). A comparison of the predictions obtained
with the Fick and Stefan-Maxwell models with experimental data showed that at
the beginning of the deposition process, the impact of diffusive model is negligible.
However, it was observed that as time passes, the Stefan-Maxwell model predicts
a greater increase in the concentration of heaviest species inside the wax deposit
when compared to the prediction of Fick s law
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