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The prediction of the density of undersaturated crude oil using multilayer feed-forward back-propagation perceptron
, Article Petroleum Science and Technology ; Volume 30, Issue 1 , 2011 , Pages 89-99 ; 10916466 (ISSN) ; Shahkarami, A ; Azin, R ; Sharif University of Technology
2011
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Crude oil density is an important thermodynamic property in simulation processes and design of equipment. Using laboratory methods to measure crude oil density is costly and time consuming; thus, predicting the density of crude oil using modeling is cost-effective. In this article, we develop a neural network-based model to predict the density of undersaturated crude oil. We compare our results with previous works and show that our method outperforms them
The essential oil composition of marrubium vulgare l. From Iran
, Article Journal of Essential Oil Research ; Volume 20, Issue 6 , 2008 , Pages 488-490 ; 10412905 (ISSN) ; Saeedi, M ; Babanezhad, E ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
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The composition of the essential oil obtained from the dried flowering aerial parts of Marrubium vulgare L. (Labiatae) was analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty components have been identified in the essential oil of M. vulgare. The major constituents of the essential oil were β-bisabolene (20.4%), δ-cadinene (19.1%) and isocaryophyllene (14.1%). © 2008, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved
Oil-soluble drag-reducing polymers [electronic resource]
, Article Journal of polymer materials ; December 1994, Volume 11, Number 4; Page(s) 239 To 247 ; Pourjavadi, A ; Nadali, M ; Sharif University of Technology
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This article reviews the oil-soluble polymeric drag-reducing agents (DRAs) with an outlook to their large-scale application in petroleum industry. A general discussion on mechanism of the DR phenomenon and mechanical degradation of the drag reducers in turbulent flow is offered with an emphasis on the molecular parameters. Furthermore, low charge density associating polymers, as a new class of oil-soluble flow improvers, are described
Monitoring the role of fracture geometrical characteristics on fingering initiation/development during heavy oil miscible displacements in fractured porous media
, Article Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects ; Vol. 35, issue. 12 , Aug , 2010 , p. 1129-1139 ; ISSN: 15567036 ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Masihi, M ; Kharrat, R ; Sharif University of Technology
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Finger initiation/development at fluid-fluid interface during miscible floods can cause poor displacement efficiency, which is undesirable in enhanced oil recovery processes. In this work, a series of hydrocarbon injection experiments performed on 5-spot glass micromodels that were initially saturated with the heavy crude oil. The fractured micromodels with different fracture geometrical characteristics were used in the tests. High quality image analysis was applied to determine the fluid flow behavior, solvent front movement, and viscous fingering associated with solvent movement in matrix and fractures. Observations showed that higher solvent dispersion in the fractures rather than matrix...
Investigation of the effect of water based nano-particles addition on hysteresis of oil and-water relative permeability curves
, Article Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE International Oilfield Nanotechnology Conference 2012 ; June , 2012 , p. 267-277 ; Masihi, M ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Sherafati, M ; Mashayekhi, L ; Sharif University of Technology
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It has been shown that one kind of poly silicon particles with sizes ranging from 10-500 nm, can be used in oilfields to enhance the oil recovery of water injection by 15-20%. The contributing mechanism might be reducing the interfacial tension which appears through improving relative permeability of the oil-phase. However, fundamental understanding of how hysteretic behavior of relative permeability curves affected by nanosilica particles remains a topic of debate in the literature. In this study, water as well as water dispersed nanosilica particles floods was performed on sandstone rock sample saturated by light crude oil supplied from one of Iranian oil reservoir, and the relative...
Effects of paraffinic group on interfacial tension behavior of CO 2-asphaltenic crude oil systems
, Article Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data ; Vol. 59, issue. 8 , 2014 , Pages 2563-2569 ; ISSN: 00219568 ; Zebarjad, F. S ; Taghikhani, V ; Ayatollahi, S ; Sharif University of Technology
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The interfacial tension (IFT) of a crude oil/CO2 system is recognized as the main property affecting the efficiency of CO2 flooding during an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process. The addition of a paraffin group hydrocarbon to asphaltenic crude oils as an asphaltene precipitant component is aimed to mimic the asphaltene precipitation process during crude oil production and transportation. Asphaltene precipitation would critically affect the interfacial behavior of crude oil/CO2 systems. In the first part of this study, the equilibrium densities of oil samples which contain n-heptane at different ratios were measured over varying pressures at 323 K. Then, the equilibrium IFT between CO2 and...
The impact of silica nanoparticles on the performance of polymer solution in presence of salts in polymer flooding for heavy oil recovery
, Article Fuel ; Vol. 123 , May , 2014 , pp. 123-132 ; ISSN: 00162361 ; Kharrat, R ; Mohebbi, A ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Sharif University of Technology
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Due to role of polymer in increasing sweep efficiency during oil recovery, much attention has been paid to the using polymer solutions in enhanced oil recovery methods. In spite of the existence of the great researches in this area, the role of nanoparticles in modification of the polymer performance in the presence of salts has not been examined before. Furthermore, there is no information about how the dispersed silica nanoparticles affect the heavy oil recovery during the polymer flooding in the presence of divalent cations. In this study, a series of polymer flooding experiments are performed in a quarter five-spot glass micromodel saturated with heavy oil. Solutions of polyacrylamide...
Anaerobic treatment by UASB reactor and aerobic biodegradability test of cutting oil sewage
, Article Journal of Environmental Studies ; Vol. 40, issue. 1 , 2014 , p. 211-220 ; Sajadi, A. A ; Mirzaei, M ; Hoseynian, H ; Sharif University of Technology
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Introduction: Water is consumed in almost all industries. Consequently the used water is turning to a waste that usually should be treated to meet the regulated standard level prior to reuse or discharge into the environment. Cutting oil wastewater is an emulsion normally comprised ofl-10% oil and the remainder water. The main functions of this oil in industry are lubrication, friction reduction, and cooling of instrument s parts. This wastewater is classified as a toxic waste according to the existence of some additive material to prevent corrosion and bacterial growth. Breakage of the emulsion and separation of the water and the oil can alone reduce more than about 90% of the aqueous phase...
Development of a continuous kinetic model for prediction of coke formation in hydroconversion of Marlim crude oil in a slurry-phase reactor
, Article Petroleum and Coal ; Vol. 56, issue. 3 , 2014 , p. 249-256 ; Khorasheh, F ; Sharif University of Technology
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A Continuous model was developed to describe the kinetics of hydroconversion of Marlim crude oil in a slurry-phase reactor. The model was able to accurately predict the liquid product distributions as well as coke formation. The model contained one temperature-independent and six temperature-dependent parameters.The model parameters were obtained by an optimization procedure using experimental data available in the open literature for reaction temperatures of 440-460°C, hydrogen pressure of 14.7 MPa, liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) of 0.5 h-1, and a hydrogen to oil ratio of 100 to 1 ft3/bbl. Comparison between experimental and predicted product distributions and coke yields indicated a...
An experimental and simulation study of heavy oil recovery by the liquid CO2 huff and puff method
, Article Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects ; Vol. 36, issue. 23 , March , 2014 , p. 2587-2594 ; Vosoughi, M ; Shadizadeh, S. R ; Kharrat, R ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Sharif University of Technology
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In this article a series of experiments were performed to demonstrate the effect of carbon dioxide injection pressure on a huff and puff process. The experimental data are used in a lab-scale model simulated with a commercial simulator to investigate the effect of soaking time, injection pore volume, and rate of injection on the heavy oil recovery. The result of experiments showed that a huff and puff process under miscible pressure conditions gives the most recovery. Simulation results illustrated that there is an optimum value for soaking time, which, for soaking times less than this value, recovery increases and for values greater than optimum the recovery decreases. The simulation study...
Performance of near-miscible simultaneous water and CO2 injection for oil recovery in secondary and tertiary modes
, Article 76th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2014: Experience the Energy - Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2014 ; Nov , 2014 , p. 1007-1011 ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Taghikhani, V ; Sharif University of Technology
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Simultaneous water and CO2 injection has been performed on a sandstone core to evaluate oil recovery under the secondary and tertiary near-miscible injection modes. It is demonstrated that secondary SWACO2 injection as well as tertiary flood is an effective method for the oil/residual oil recovery from oil saturated/water-flooded porous media. In the secondary SWACO2 injection, the ultimate oil recovery increases by increasing SWAG ratio from 0.2 to 0.4 but due to some limits, e.g. topological effects, prohibiting contacting of injected gas with residual oil in pores, altering SWAG ratio from 0.4 to 0.6 showed no effect on ultimate oil recovery. Secondary SWACO2 injection can recover higher...
Effects of asphaltene content and temperature on viscosity of Iranian heavy crude oil: Experimental and modeling study
, Article Energy and Fuels ; Volume 27, Issue 12 , 2013 , Pages 7217-7232 ; ISSN: 08870624 ; Shojaei, M. J ; Ahmad Ramazani, S. A ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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Heavy and extra heavy crude oils usually have a high weight percentage of asphaltene, which could induce many problems during production to refining processes. Also, asphaltene has the main role on the high viscosity of the heavy and extra heavy crude oils. In this paper, the effects of asphaltene characteristics on the crude oil rheological properties have been experimentally and theoretically investigated using different classes of the suspension models. For experimental investigation, the asphaltene was first precipitated from the original heavy crude oil and then 10 well-defined reconstituted heavy oil samples are made by dispersing the asphaltene into the maltene (i.e., deasphalted...
Monitoring the role of fracture geometrical characteristics on fingering initiation/development during heavy oil miscible displacements in fractured porous media
, Article Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects ; Volume 35, Issue 12 , Aug , 2013 , Pages 1129-1139 ; 15567036 (ISSN) ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Masihi, M ; Kharrat, R ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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Finger initiation/development at fluid-fluid interface during miscible floods can cause poor displacement efficiency, which is undesirable in enhanced oil recovery processes. In this work, a series of hydrocarbon injection experiments performed on 5-spot glass micromodels that were initially saturated with the heavy crude oil. The fractured micromodels with different fracture geometrical characteristics were used in the tests. High quality image analysis was applied to determine the fluid flow behavior, solvent front movement, and viscous fingering associated with solvent movement in matrix and fractures. Observations showed that higher solvent dispersion in the fractures rather than matrix...
Asphaltene deposition in carbonate rocks: Experimental investigation and numerical simulation
, Article Energy and Fuels ; Volume 26, Issue 10 , June , 2012 , Pages 6186-6199 ; 08870624 (ISSN) ; Miri, R ; Ayatollahi, S ; Escrochi, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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Oil production from asphaltenic oil reservoirs has always encountered difficulties, such as plugging and unpredictable fluid properties. To physically recognize the aspects of asphaltene deposition, several dynamic and static asphaltene deposition tests were designed and performed on one of the giant south Iranian oil reservoirs using dead and live crude oil and real core samples. Moreover, the effects of fluid velocity on the extent of damage were investigated. It was found that surface deposition of asphaltene particles is the main source of formation damages in the porous media and the resulting permeability impairment obeys an exponential behavior. All of the experiments confirm that...
A comparative study on WAS, SWAS, and solvent-soak scenarios applied to heavy-oil reservoirs using five-spot glass micromodels
, Article Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology ; Volume 51, Issue 5 , 2012 , Pages 383-392 ; 00219487 (ISSN) ; Dehghan, A. A ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Kharrat, R ; Sharif University of Technology
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In this work, a series of solvent- and water-injection scenarios were conducted on horizontal five-spot glass micromodels that were saturated initially with heavy oil. Sandstone and limestone rock look-alike and network patterns with different pore structures were used in the experiments. The results show that the ultimate oil recovery of a water-alternating-solvent (WAS) scheme was greater than that of a simultaneously water-alternating-solvent (SWAS) scheme, and the efficiency of a solvent-soak scheme also offers a greater recovery. Likewise, the WAS scheme resulted in greater oil recovery when compared with continuous solvent injection (CSI), with the same amount of solvent consumption....
Structure of human errors in tasks of operators working in the control room of an oil refinery unit
, Article Indian Journal of Science and Technology ; Volume 5, Issue 2 , Feb , 2012 , Pages 2065-2070 ; 09746846 (ISSN) ; Jafari, M. J ; Ghalehnoi, M ; Mehrabi, Y ; Ghadiri, M ; Nikbakht, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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In the present research, human errors existed in tasks of operators working in two control rooms (Northern and Southern control rooms) in the Tehran oil refinery are identified and evaluated. Then, corrective strategies and actions are advised to decrease errors. At first, using hierarchical task analysis (HTA) method, four positions including shift controller, head operators, control room's operators, and outside operators are analyzed. Afterwards, human errors in the considered positions are identified and assessed using technique for retrospective and predictive analysis of cognitive errors (TRACEr). Results present 670 internal errors and 738 external errors in the Northern sector while...
Quantifying the role of pore geometry and medium heterogeneity on heavy oil recovery during solvent/Co-solvent flooding inwater-wet systems
, Article Journal of Porous Media ; Volume 14, Issue 4 , 2011 , Pages 363-373 ; 1091028X (ISSN) ; Kharrat, R ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Vossoughi, S ; Sharif University of Technology
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Porous medium characteristics (e.g., pore geometry and medium heterogeneity) as well as the chemical nature of the co-solvents crucially affect the oil displacement efficiency during solvent flooding processes. In this work, initially saturated models with heavy crude oil were used to perform a series of solvent injection experiments. Several onequarter five-spot micromodels with pre-designed pore geometry were constructed and used. In addition, rock-look-alike flow patterns generated from thin sections of sandstone and dolomite reservoir rocks were etched onto glass plates to form micromodels mimicking the pore geometry and heterogeneity of these rocks. Four different groups of chemicals...
Improvement of palm oil and sunflower oil blends by enzymatic interestrification
, Article International Journal of Food Science and Technology ; Volume 46, Issue 5 , 2011 , Pages 1093-1099 ; 09505423 (ISSN) ; Alemzadeh, I ; Sharif University of Technology
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Palm oil (PO) and sunflower oil (SFO) blends with varying proportions were subjected to enzymatic interesterification (EIE) using a 1,3-specific immobilised lipase. The interesterified blends were evaluated for their slip melting point (SMP), solid fat content (SFC) at 10-40°C, p-anisidine value, peroxide value, free fatty acids (FFA), induction period of oxidation at 110°C (IP110) and composition of fatty acids by gas chromatography. Under EIE treatment, the blends of PO and SFO in different proportions (20:80, 40:60, 50:50, 60:40 and 80:20) had saturated and unsaturated fatty acid content in the range of 37.6-52.0% and 48.0-62.4%, respectively. The blends showed a considerable reduction in...
Characterization of viscous fingering during displacements of low tension natural surfactant in fractured multi-layered heavy oil systems
, Article Chemical Engineering Research and Design ; Volume 96 , 2015 , Pages 23-34 ; 02638762 (ISSN) ; Shokrollahi, A ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Rashtchian, D ; Sharif University of Technology
Institution of Chemical Engineers
2015
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Characterization of viscous fingering in low tension displacements especially for heavy oil surfactant pair in heterogeneous systems is neither straight forward nor well understood. In this work layered porous models containing fractures with different geometrical properties were used and the finger behavior during displacement of LTNS, as a new EOR agent, in heavy oil was quantified. Dynamic propagation of the fingers independent to the type of heterogeneity is well correlated with the dimensionless displacement time in a linearly form. And also, the rate of finger growth is nearly independent to the type of medium heterogeneity. When injection is scheduled through high permeable region in...
Worm-like micelles:a new approach for heavy oil recovery from fractured systems
, Article Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering ; Volume 93, Issue 5 , 2015 , Pages 951-958 ; 00084034 (ISSN) ; Saidian, M ; Mavaddat, M ; Ghazanfari, M. H ; Kharrat, R ; Rashtchian, D ; Sharif University of Technology
Wiley-Liss Inc
2015
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In this work, a new type of flooding system, "worm-like micelles", in enhanced heavy oil recovery (EOR) has been introduced. Application of these types of surfactants, because of their intriguing and surprising behaviour, is attractive for EOR studies. Fundamental understanding of the sweep efficiencies as well as displacement mechanisms of this flooding system in heterogeneous systems especially for heavy oils remains a topic of debate in the literature. Worm-like micellar surfactant solutions are made up of highly flexible cylindrical aggregates. Such micellar solutions display high surface activity and high viscoelasticity, making them attractive in practical applications for EOR. In this...