2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Fundamentals and Applications of Flow Assurance

In this session, experts from academia and industry will provide basic principles and applications of the state-of-the-art technologies to address some of the most common flow assurance problems faced by the oil industry nowadays.

Chair

Francisco Vargas, Rice University

Co-Chair

Nagu Daraboina, University of Tulsa

Presentations

08:00 AM

(75a) Experimental Characterization of Surfactant Application in Gas Wells and in Presence of Water and Condensates
Amita Kosambi, Hamidreza Karami, Sepideh Razavi

08:15 AM

(75b) A CFD Based High-Dimensional Deep Neural Network Surrogate Model for Oil/Water Separation in Horizontal Oil Production Pipelines
Kuochen Tsai

08:30 AM

(75c) Polymer Drag Reduction in Taylor-Couette Flow: Routes for Improved Shear Stability
Stefanos Michaelides, Thibaut Charpentier, Mark Wilson, Paul Hunt, Helen Sarginson, David Harbottle

08:45 AM

(75d) An Automated Microfluidic System for High Throughput Mechanistic Study of Asphaltenes Deposition and Dissolution in Porous Media Using in Situ Spectroscopy
Weiqi Chen, Ryan Hartman, Andrew Yen, Yogesh Kapoor, Nikhil Joshi, Tony Guo

09:00 AM

(75e) Modeling Asphaltene Deposition in Production Pipelines
Nagu Daraboina, Ahmed Al-hosani

09:15 AM

(75f) Effect of Asphaltenes on the Structure and Surface Properties of Wax Crystals in Waxy Oils
Huiyong Xue, Jinjun Zhang

09:30 AM

(75g) Paraffin Deposition Modeling – Is the Current Methodology Sufficient?
Yingda Lu, Jinghao Yang, Cem Sarica, Elijah Bell, Nagu Daraboina

09:45 AM

(75h) The Influence of Nanocomposite Pour Point Depressant on Wax Deposition of Waxy Oil
Huirong Huang, Chuanshuo Wang, Wei Wang, Zeheng Peng, Jing Gong, Yanfen Ding

10:00 AM

(75i) Phase Equilibrium Conditions of Methane Hydrate in Presence Aqueous Solutions of CaBr2, MgBr2 and ZnBr2
Dnyaneshwar Bhawangirkar, Jitendra Sangwai

10:15 AM

(75j) Evaluation of Pyrite Scale Reaction Kinetics in a Rotating Disk Apparatus Using Chelating Agents and a Converter
Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Musa Eltayeb Musa Ahmed, Abdulmujeeb Onawole