Journal of Chemistry, 2021 Asphaltene aggregation and precipitation are one of the major issues for marine low-sulfur fuel oil used on board. Many research studies have been carried out to investigate the aggregation behavior of asphaltene under different conditions, but the ...
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Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 2019 Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection is one of the most applied enhanced oil recovery methods in the hydrocarbon industry, since it has the potential to increase oil recovery significantly and can help reduce greenhouse gases through carbon storage in ...
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 329-339., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Vladimir Kutcherov +3 more
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Investigation into mechanisms and kinetics of asphaltene aggregation in toluene/n-hexane mixtures
Petroleum Science, 2019 Determining the rate of asphaltene particle growth is one of the main problems in modeling of asphaltene precipitation and deposition. In this paper, the kinetics of asphaltene aggregation under different precipitant concentrations have been studied. The
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Molecular composition of asphaltene in wellbore blockage on the southern margin of Junggar Basin
Shiyou shiyan dizhi, 2022 Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) was employed to analyze the compositional differences of asphaltene of oil and blockage extracts of well Gaotan 1 on the southern margin of Junggar Basin.
Erting LI +7 more
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Micromechanism of petroleum asphaltene aggregation
Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2008 The periodic molecular structure model of solvent-asphaltene system is constructed using molecular mechanical and molecular dynamical methods. The influences of six kinds of different solvents (Nitrobenzene, Quinoline, Pyridine, 1-methylnaphthalene ...
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A Numerical Simulation Study on the Kinetics of Asphaltene Particle Flocculation in a Two-dimensional Shear Flow [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 2019 In the current study, the kinetics of asphaltene particle flocculation is investigated under a shear flow through numerical simulation. The discrete element method (DEM) is coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model the agglomeration and ...
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A Novel Method for Mitigation of Asphaltene Deposition in the Wellstring [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2010 Asphaltene precipitation and deposition is a serious problem in many Iranian fields. The deposited asphaltene results in partial or total blockage of the wellbore and wellstring reducing or completely seizing oil production.
Bahram Soltani Soulgani +3 more
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Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 2023 Many oil and gas processes, including oil recovery, oil transportation, and petroleum processing, are negatively impacted by the precipitation and deposition of asphaltene. Screening methods for determining the stability of asphaltenes in crude oil have
Moammed A. Ahmed +2 more
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Asphaltene Precipitation Modeling of Sadi Formation in Halfaya Iraqi Oil Field
Journal of Engineering, 2019 Asphaltene is a component class that may precipitate from petroleum as a highly viscous and sticky material that is likely to cause deposition problems in a reservoir, in production well, transportation, and in process plants.
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