Study of rheology of gas-to-liquid products, Alaska North Slope crude oil and their blends for transportation through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2004 In order to bring remote natural gas to market, conversion of natural gas to a liquid form (Gas-to-liquids (GTL)) may be an alternative to utilize this gas. Alaskan North Slope might prove as one of the first sites in the USA to commercialize this t...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/6035 2023-05-15T13:09:10+02:00 Study of rheology of gas-to-liquid products, Alaska North Slope crude oil and their blends for transportation through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System Inamdar, Abhijeet Ashok 2004-08 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6035 en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6035 Department of Petroleum Engineering Thesis ms 2004 ftunivalaska 2023-02-23T21:36:34Z Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2004 In order to bring remote natural gas to market, conversion of natural gas to a liquid form (Gas-to-liquids (GTL)) may be an alternative to utilize this gas. Alaskan North Slope might prove as one of the first sites in the USA to commercialize this technology because of the huge natural gas resources it holds. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) will be the means of transportation of this GTL to the market. Thus it becomes major task to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of transporting GTL products through the TAPS. One of the modes of transporting GTL products from ANS to Valdez is commingling them with Crude oil as a single phase before pumping through TAPS. This changes the properties of GTL as well as the Crude oil. Thus it becomes important to study the physical and chemical properties of not only the GTL but also its blends with the crude oil. Four blends of GTL/crude in the ratios of 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 were prepared for their rheological evaluation at different temperature conditions. Results show that flow behavior of the pure and GTL blends are temperature sensitive. Viscosity and density of the blends decrease with increasing amount of GTL and increasing temperature. Optimum blend ratio is between 1:2 and 1:3 GTL/Crude oil blends. 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature survey -- 3. Experimental methodology -- 4. Energy and pressure gradient equations -- 5. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusions and recommendation -- Nomenclature -- References. Thesis Alaska North Slope north slope Alaska University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Fairbanks |
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Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2004 In order to bring remote natural gas to market, conversion of natural gas to a liquid form (Gas-to-liquids (GTL)) may be an alternative to utilize this gas. Alaskan North Slope might prove as one of the first sites in the USA to commercialize this technology because of the huge natural gas resources it holds. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) will be the means of transportation of this GTL to the market. Thus it becomes major task to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of transporting GTL products through the TAPS. One of the modes of transporting GTL products from ANS to Valdez is commingling them with Crude oil as a single phase before pumping through TAPS. This changes the properties of GTL as well as the Crude oil. Thus it becomes important to study the physical and chemical properties of not only the GTL but also its blends with the crude oil. Four blends of GTL/crude in the ratios of 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 were prepared for their rheological evaluation at different temperature conditions. Results show that flow behavior of the pure and GTL blends are temperature sensitive. Viscosity and density of the blends decrease with increasing amount of GTL and increasing temperature. Optimum blend ratio is between 1:2 and 1:3 GTL/Crude oil blends. 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature survey -- 3. Experimental methodology -- 4. Energy and pressure gradient equations -- 5. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusions and recommendation -- Nomenclature -- References. |
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Study of rheology of gas-to-liquid products, Alaska North Slope crude oil and their blends for transportation through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System |
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Study of rheology of gas-to-liquid products, Alaska North Slope crude oil and their blends for transportation through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System |
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