Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
In the field of petroleum, chemical industry and food manufacturing, heat exchangers are often used chemical equipment for their simple composition. With advantages like easy to transport and relatively low cost, the shell and tube heat exchanger has…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
In the field of petroleum, chemical industry and food manufacturing, heat exchangers are often used chemical equipment for their simple composition. With advantages like easy to transport and relatively low cost, the shell and tube heat exchanger has…
In the past decade, the amount of data in the petroleum industry has increased rapidly, and the demand for data mining has continued to increase. The method of big data analysis can more scientifically guide the exploration and development, oil…
This paper highlights the development and results of an innovative tool for prediction of process upsets and hazard events associated with production operations of an oil and gas field. Summarily, this software can give recommendations on actions to…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
In the past decade, the amount of data in the petroleum industry has increased rapidly, and the demand for data mining has continued to increase. The method of big data analysis can more scientifically guide the exploration and development, oil…
This paper highlights the development and results of an innovative tool for prediction of process upsets and hazard events associated with production operations of an oil and gas field. Summarily, this software can give recommendations on actions to…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
In the field of petroleum, chemical industry and food manufacturing, heat exchangers are often used chemical equipment for their simple composition. With advantages like easy to transport and relatively low cost, the shell and tube heat exchanger has…
A statistically rigorous assessment of the effect of fracturing treatment chemical additives on well productivity was performed. The dataset for analysis consisted of over 4,500 slickwater-treated wells in the lower 48 US states. All wells were…
In the past decade, the amount of data in the petroleum industry has increased rapidly, and the demand for data mining has continued to increase. The method of big data analysis can more scientifically guide the exploration and development, oil…
This paper highlights the development and results of an innovative tool for prediction of process upsets and hazard events associated with production operations of an oil and gas field. Summarily, this software can give recommendations on actions to…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
A statistically rigorous assessment of the effect of fracturing treatment chemical additives on well productivity was performed. The dataset for analysis consisted of over 4,500 slickwater-treated wells in the lower 48 US states. All wells were…
A statistically rigorous assessment of the effect of fracturing treatment chemical additives on well productivity was performed. The dataset for analysis consisted of over 4,500 slickwater-treated wells in the lower 48 US states. All wells were…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
In the field of petroleum, chemical industry and food manufacturing, heat exchangers are often used chemical equipment for their simple composition. With advantages like easy to transport and relatively low cost, the shell and tube heat exchanger has…
In the past decade, the amount of data in the petroleum industry has increased rapidly, and the demand for data mining has continued to increase. The method of big data analysis can more scientifically guide the exploration and development, oil…
This paper highlights the development and results of an innovative tool for prediction of process upsets and hazard events associated with production operations of an oil and gas field. Summarily, this software can give recommendations on actions to…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
In the field of petroleum, chemical industry and food manufacturing, heat exchangers are often used chemical equipment for their simple composition. With advantages like easy to transport and relatively low cost, the shell and tube heat exchanger has…
In the past decade, the amount of data in the petroleum industry has increased rapidly, and the demand for data mining has continued to increase. The method of big data analysis can more scientifically guide the exploration and development, oil…
The dynamic forces of mechanical and hydraulics may cause vibrations and noises of centrifugal pumps. To prevent the pumps from the vibrations and noises, we investigate the relationship between the oil properties/flowrate and vibration levels. The…
The precipitation and deposition of asphaltenes often cause great troubles to the recovery and transportation of crude oil. Adding polymer inhibitors is an effective approach to prevent asphaltenes from clogging. In this study, maleic…
Waxy crude oil has become a crucial unconventional oil alternative owing to the depleting conventional oil resources. However, ascertaining flow assurance in a waxy crude oil pipeline at low temperatures is challenging due to the high viscosity and…
Herein, we present the production of jet and diesel range hydrocarbons from non-edible hexane-extracted Brassica carinata oil. The influence of four heterogeneous catalysts (two noble metal catalysts: Pd/C and Ru/C, and two transition metal…
In this work, Fe2O3, ZnO, and MgO nanoparticles were synthesized via a chemical precipitation method to investigate their effects on wax formation, morphological characteristics, and rheological behavior in a crude oil sample. For this purpose,…
Contamination derived from maritime transportation is not only linked to petroleum-based substances but also to transportation of other substances such as hazardous and noxious nature (HNS). Over the last decade, the maritime trade of HNS has been…
Asphaltene is a component of crude oil that has been reported to cause severe problems during production and transportation of the oil from the reservoir. It is a solid component of the oil that has different structures and molecular makeup which…
Crude oil is normally produced in the form of a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion. One of the major challenges during crude oil exploration is the high viscosity of crude oil produced due to the formation of stable emulsions. This affects the overall cost…
With the end of economic production in sight, the oil and gas industry is preparing for the decommissioning of the offshore facilities. Beside of removing the infrastructure, there are numerous possibilities for its future use. Paper analyses…
A commercial Fe-C material (P265GH) used for natural gas delivery and transportation systems was analyzed in H2S atmosphere in order to establish the corrosion resistance. In most of the industrial processes for gas purification the corrosion rate is…
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquefied Biogas (LBG) utilization within the heavy duty transport sector is today a sustainable alternative to the use of oil. However, in spite of the high degree of insulation in the storage tank walls, it is…
The aliphatic alcohols (methanol, ethanol, 1- and 2-propanol) were used for the upgrading of petroleum asphaltenes. The process was performed under supercritical (sc) conditions at 350 C. CHNSO analysis and GC methods were used to characterize the…
Thiophene compounds are the main concern of petroleum desulfurization, and their chemical composition and molecular configuration have critical impacts on thermodynamic and kinetic processes. In this work, atmospheric pressure chemical ionization…
The micro-encapsulated phase change materials could be used for thermal storage and temperature regulation, which solved the energy mismatch in space and time, and the utilization rate of energy has been greatly improved. Thus, recently, the…
Niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5) material is a promising anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to the outstanding cycle performance and rate capability. However, the relatively low capacity severely limits the comprehensive performance. Generally,…
In this study, acetone fractionation was used to increase the homogeneity of softwood kraft lignin for product development. The acetone soluble and insoluble fractions were analyzed in terms of elemental composition, chemical structure, and thermal…
Solid-liquid phase change materials (PCMs) have been preferred for solar passive thermal energy storage (TES) applications. However, low thermal conductivity and leakage issue of molten PCMs considerably restrain their TES potential. In this…
Recently, hydrothermal catalytic process in reservoir conditions (in-situ upgrading) has got remarkable attentions. In this study, the feasibility of the in-situ upgrading of Ashalcha crude oil (Tatarstan region, Russia) using steam and catalyst…
Amphiphilic poly(ionic liquids), PILs, derived from natural products attracted great attention as a green chemical in the field of the surface chemistry and petroleum industry. In the present work, new surface active PILs were synthesized from…
In this study, the tandem mass spectra of 25 standard compounds, obtained at a normalized collision energy of 50, were used to investigate the structures of crude oil. The product ion distributions of these standard compounds were dependent on the…
Phase change materials (PCMs) utilized for thermal energy storage applications are verified to be a promising technology due to their larger benefits over other heat storage techniques. Apart from the advantageous thermophysical properties of PCM,…
Present study deals with the effect of enrichment with H2 on the laminar burning velocity (LBV) and flame stability of various multicomponent NGair mixtures. In the present work, constant pressure outwardly propagating spherical flame method is used…
In this study, first of its kind complete plant scale integration of pre-combustion CO2 capture method with Chemical Looping Reforming (CLR) of Natural Gas (NG), Water Gas Shift (WGS) process, CO2 capture and CO2 compression in a combined cycle power…
The effect of the addition of hydrogen to various multicomponent natural gas (NG) blends is experimentally and numerically investigated. All the experiments are performed at a pressure of 0.1 MPa, a temperature of 300 3 K, and a range of equivalence…