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Dec 21, 2012
Wax Deposition Law Study for Oil Transportation Pipeline with Phase Equilibrium
Authors: Qinglin Cheng [email protected], Xiaoli Sun [email protected], Yang Wang [email protected], Xuxu Wang [email protected], and Zhe Li [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: ICPTT 2012: Better Pipeline Infrastructure for a Better Life
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Owing to high pour-point of most waxy crude oil in China, if the wall temperature is below the wax precipitation point through pipeline transportation, wax crystal will appear and deposit with the other components of crude oil on the wall together. This process is commonly known as "wax precipitation". It is the widely existing problem of wax deposition in pipelines during transportation of waxy crude oil. This phenomenon leads to many problems such as pipe plugging, production rate decreasing, pressure drop increasing, fiction increasing and so forth. In the non-equilibrium thermodynamics, wax deposition is a complex coupling irreversible process with diffusion, heat transfer and fluid flow and phase change together. To start with the main factor of several stages, such as dissolution, precipitation, diffusion, deposition and ablation of wax, the physical model of non-equilibrium thermodynamics process on wax deposition in pipeline transportation process was established. Then combined with fugacity and activity coefficients, enthalpy change and entropy change of phase transition process and solid-liquid phase equilibrium model in atmospheric pressure are deduced, the pipeline operation parameters on the effect of wax deposition law in transportation pipeline is explored, thus the theoretical foundation can be provided to make further research on wax deposition with non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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Professor, Key Lab of Ministry of Education for Enhancing the Oil and Gas Recovery Ratio, Petroleum Engineering Institution, Northeast Petroleum University; No. 199, Fazhan Road, Daqing 163318. E-mail: [email protected]
Petroleum Engineering Institution, Northeast Petroleum University; No. 199, Fazhan Road, Daqing 163318. E-mail: [email protected]
Petroleum Engineering Institution, Northeast Petroleum University; No. 199, Fazhan Road, Daqing 163318. E-mail: [email protected]
Petroleum Engineering Institution, Northeast Petroleum University; No. 199, Fazhan Road, Daqing 163318. E-mail: [email protected]
Petroleum Engineering Institution, Northeast Petroleum University; No. 199, Fazhan Road, Daqing 163318. E-mail: [email protected]
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