Thursday, November 8, 2007: 3:30 PM-6:00 PM
Room 251 B (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Topical 2: New Frontiers in Energy Research (T2)

#642 - Oil Characterization and Thermodynamics as Related to Flow Assurance (T2006)
Keeping crude oil pipelines in flowing is of economic and strategic importance in all geographic locations of the world. Oil is being produced from increasingly deep prospects off-shore. In the process, oils with significantly different characteristics get mixed. Oils are complex mixtures and contain varying amounts of waxes and asphaltenes. Waxes precipitate when temperatures drop below wax precipitation temperatures and asphaltenes come out of solution when pressures are reduced or when incompatible solvents are mixed with oils. In this session, we will address fundamental characterization of oils and their bulk and thermodynamic properties including rheological properties. We will also consider contributions about thermodynamic, flow and integrated models and papers addressing oil compatibility issues.
Chair:Jules Magda
CoChair:Milind Deo
3:30 PM642aWaxy Gels with Asphaltenes 1 – Characterization of Precipitation, Gelation, Network Strength and Morphology
Jack F. Tinsley, Justin P. Jahnke, Robert K. Prud'homme, Heather D. Dettman
3:55 PM642bCharacteristics Of Wax Gels
Kyeongseok Oh, Kaushik Gandhi, Jules J. Magda, Milind D. Deo
4:20 PM642cRestarting Gelled Pipelines
Kesia Guimaraes, Kyeongseok Oh, Milind Deo, Jules Magda
4:45 PM642dWaxy Gels with Asphaltenes 2 – Reduction of Network Strength with Polymer Additives
Jack F. Tinsley, Justin P. Jahnke, Robert K. Prud'homme, Heather D. Dettman
5:10 PM642eFlow Assurance Issues In Oil Production
Rama Venkatesan
5:35 PM642fAn Analysis of N-Alkane Polydispersity on the Crystallization of N-Alkanes in Solution
Michael Senra, Ekarit Paracharoensawad, H. Scott Fogler

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