Determination of Wax Content in Egyptian Crude Oils
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Wax precipitation is one of the most important flow assurance problems. Unfortunately, experimental data are very scarce to confirm existing models for prediction of such production impairment and other hazardous risk; while its curative approaches and production losses add to colossal economic sabotage to the petroleum industry. The present work deals with studying the determination of wax in Egyptian crude oil by gravimetric determination precipitation with lowering temperature of the crude oil .The crude oil studied was from Egyptian western desert (waxy paraffinic crude). Waxes may precipitate due to a temperature decrease because their solubility is so low that a solid phase can appear. The experiments investigated the effect of initial weight of the crude, the time of cooling, and the temperature on the amount of wax produced. The highest amount of wax was produced with 150gm of the crude oil, at temperature of 0oC and this was done within two hours of the time of experiment. Finally the effect of using solvent on the amount wax content was also studied and it was found that the ratio (3:1) of solvent mixture increases achievement of the maximum amount of wax produced.
Authors and Affiliations
Prof. Dr. Ramadan Abu El - Ella , Dr. Ehssan Nassef
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP115938
- DOI -
- Views 105
- Downloads 0
Spatio-Temporal Video Denoising by Block-Based Motion detection
This paper proposes a new video denoising technique where spatially adaptive noise filtering in wavelet (transform) domain is combined with temporal filtering in signal domain. AWGN is being considered which beha...
Evolutionary Computation Techniques Based Optimal PID Controller Tuning
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the implementation of two Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques viz. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for optimal tuning of PID controllers p...
Morphometric Analysis of Shaliganga Sub Catchment, Kashmir Valley, India Using Geographical Information System
The quantitative analysis of drainage system is an important aspect of characterization of watersheds. Using watershed as a basic unit in morphometric analysis is the most logical choice because all hydrologic and...
A Novel Hybrid Flower Pollination Algorithm with Chaotic Harmony Search for Solving Sudoku Puzzles
Flower Pollination algorithm (FP) is a new nature-inspired algorithm, based on the characteristics of flowering plants .In this paper, a new hybrid optimization method called improved Flower Pollination Algorithm with Ch...
Study of Security Problem in Cloud
The cloud computing has revolutionized the world in terms of services provided by it. But there are security problems of this cloud structure. This paper focuses on the security problems in cloud and various security mea...