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Gravity drainage is known as one of the major mechanisms of oil recovery in naturally fractured reservoirs which petroleum engineers conducted research in this realm. Block to block interaction such as capillary continuity and reinfiltration mainly control the efficiency of this mechanism. In this study, first of all, free fall and forced gravity drainage experiments have been conducted in a single block apparatus and effect of some parameters like, density viscosity relation, matrix permeability, vertical fracture aperture, presence of viscose force and type of injected gas were investigated, in the second step, three stack block apparatus were designed and constructed. This apparatus were... 

Increasing of industrial society's need to refinery's product, high consuming energy in distillation process and pollution product in it cause to researchers investigate about the alternative process for crude oil refinery. At this time, supercritical fluid extraction was regard as a less energy consuming process. The aim of this work was prepare to a computerized model for simulating of crude oil refinery's process. In this work effects of temperature and pressure on the supercritical extraction were investigated. The experiment was done at four temperatures (35, 40, 45, 50°C) and four pressures (100, 120, 140, 160 bar) by supercritical carbon dioxide and obtained samples were analyzed by... 

It is well known that poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is a high melting compound which has exceptional value as a fiber and film-making material, and which currently dominates the whole field of linear polyester substances. However, the high viscosity and limited solubility in liquid solvents restrict its processing to powders and hence the range of applications of such a polymer. Traditionally, crushing, mechanical grinding, ball milling and precipitation from solution are methods for producing powders. The first three ones inevitably change the property of materials. The last one is carried out on the basis of the application of an anti-solvent to decrease the solubility of a... 

The supercritical carbon dioxide is applied in many separation processes as solvent. Due to this applicability of carbon dioxide, in this study, it is applied to oil refinery. In order to find the maximum efficiency, the experiment was conducted in the pressure range of 150-210 bar, and the temperature range 35-65 C of temperature. Based on this study, the changes in pressure show strong effect on the efficiency, and when it increases the efficiency increases, too. Despite of the pressure, when the temperature increases at a constant pressure, the density of supercritical carbon dioxide decreases. As a result, its solubility in decreases and the oil viscosity and mass transfer rate from oil... 

In this study the main goal is to prepare a membrane to perform delayed drug release and absorbtion in the human body. To do so the supercritical method was used. A well-known biodegradable polymer was used. These kinds of polymers are used in drug delivery, wound dressing or scaffolding for cell culture. A membrane produced out of these kin of polymers is expected to have a good accordance with the goals.Ploy Vinyl alcohol, having very good bio degradable characteristics was used as the main polymer and Poly Ethylene Glycol (PEG) was used as an additive to make changes in the membrane structure. Also Dimethyl Sulfoxide, a polar solvent having the capability of solving both polymers is used.... 

Fracture and Matrix permeability systematically change because production time of gas and oil reservoirs is very long and pore pressure, temperature and in-situ stresses continously change in reservoirs.This parameters have an important role in determination and development of wells according to the permeability distribution.The main factors in determination of fracture permeability values is normal and shear stiffness that parameters such as roughness, opening, closure, aperture and asperities influence this factor.In this thesis, we try to investigate the influence of this parameters on fracture permeability according to the normal and shear stresses.Also we want to investigate the... 

In an oil field, there always have been several wells which are produced or injected for several years, parameters such as pore pressure, temperature and stresses have been altered due to these production and injection wells. Having knowledge about the changes in mentioned parameters, new wellbores will confronts instability during drilling in high depth and sensitive layers. This thesis deals with the wellbore instability of sandstone formation with special focus on the effects of stresses and pore pressure changes caused by production and/or injection wells in the vicinity of the area that the new well would be drilled, to begin with the general assumptions and input parameters used in the... 

Instability means that when wellbore is out of circle due to any reasons in which it may be associate with fracture or falling of wellbore wall. Wellbore instability problem in production and exploration wells cause high costs over than 100 million dollars in all over the world in which these costs can be increased to 1 billion dollars so, necessary forecasts for preventing of instability is essential. Up to now, a lot of methods are suggested for investigation of wellbore instability, but in this study, analytical investigation with the help of triaxial tension is considered. Failure criterion and rock behavioral model are two important factors in wellbore stability modeling. In this study,... 

The acidizing operations have significant impact on productivity and production of oil and gas wells, so that wells having shell or regional damage are good candidates for well stimulation operations which could result in significant increase for efficiency or injectivity. Generally, the neural networks are nonlinear learning mathematical systems. In this project consists, At first, wellhead data of acidizing operation are collected in two Gachsaran oil field (38 wells) and Nar and Kangan gas field (35 wells). Generally, the neural networks are nonlinear learning mathematical systems. In the neural Network by using two algorithms, back propagation algorithm and Quick Propagation algorithm... 

In this study we investigated the stress effects on the fractured block in formation and its impact on flow through the matrix. At first the effect of various stresses on reduction of sample's pore volume and thereby reduction the permeability have been studied. The equations used to describe the elasticity relations in saturated matrix block is provided by Bayot theory. In this theory, the system of related equations to stress and strain changes have been developed in matrix. We have used finite element method in COMSOL software to solve the equation system created by elasticity relations in formation. After solving the equations, volume and volumetric strain changes which are caused by the... 

Red grape skin has a lot of antioxidant that called Anthocyanins. In this research this material has been studied and amount of extraction of them have been studied by changing the operational parameter and particle size in taguchi procedure. Pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) was used to extract Anthocyanins from Dried Red Grape Skin (DRGS) with acidified Ethanol solvent (1 %( v/v) of HCl) in 90-120°C, 10-40 bar, and 30 min extraction time. In this study, effect of particle size distribution of DRGS was considered and the results showed that with increasing the temperature (from 90 to 120 °C in 10 °C increments) and decreasing the pressure and particle size the extraction of Anthocyanins... 

In this project after literature survey, an endemic Iranian plant called Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. that have various medicinal properties has been selected. The essential oil of this plant has not extracted by supercritical fluid technology up to now and this is first work. In order to achieve the maximum yield and optimization of process five parameter in four level has been selected including: Pressure, Temperature, Carbon dioxide flow rate, particle size and dynamic time. For reduction of the number of experiment, Taguchi design of experiment (DOE) and its L16 orthogonal array has been used. Total yield of extraction in each experiment calculated by dividing the mass of produced... 

Green tea has been receiving significant attention in recent years due to its high content of catechins; Epicatechin (EC), epicatechin gallate (ECG), epigallocatechin (EGC) and especially epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). As powerful antioxidants, these compounds are believed to have several health benefits. In this study, we used supercritical CO2 with ethanol as co-solvent to extract catechin derivatives from green tea and we investigated the effects of experiment parameters on the extraction. Experiments, designed according to Taguchi algorithm, were conducted with green tea particles of four average diameters of 1500, 855, 605 and 427.5 µm, in an interval of 35- 55 ̊C for temperature and... 

Nowadays, we know that many hydrocarbon reservoirs are fractured regarding this, the investigation of the properties of these reservoirs is necessary to predict the storage, production and the drilling methods. To identify fractured reservoirs, the fracture properties and their geometries under different conditions should be investigated. Besides, the evaluation of the behavior of induced fractures in distinct under ground conditions is very important. The Mechanical properties of the drilling bed like crack propagation, layer and mass rock is impactful in planning of drilling process and hydraulic fracturing operation. In this research, at first we introduce natural and induced fractures... 

Formation damage is defined as any process that reduses the reservoir permeability relative to its normal state. Two major causes of this problem are filtrate and solid invasion into the pore spaces of reservoir rock.Therefore, the drilling fluid used for drilling the reservoir sections should prevent such a problem as much as possible.The goal of this study is to optimize the weighting additive particle size distribution to prevent permeability damage in one of the southern Iranian oil fields. By analizing the capillary pressure data of core samples, it seems that fracture presence in rock matrix leads to poor quality of mudcake, resulting peremabilty reduction in near wellbore region.... 

Milk is One of the most important source s of protein in the world. during the process of cheese the most of these protein remain in whey. There are different methods to separate these protein from whey. The one of advanced method is ultrafiltartion, this method is based on a permeable membranes, with different pore size. There are many research works in this field. In this project we have tried to study the effect ofpressure, temperature, concentration and resistance time on membrane porosity. In order to design the experiment and analyze the results tagochi L 16 methods is used. The PVC membranes were prepaid by gas anti solvent method, experiment showed that changes of temperature and... 

The gas separation properties of polycarbonate (PC) membranes were investigated in this study. These membranes were prepared via dry and dry-wet phase inversion technique. Pure O2, N2, and CO2 gases were permeated through prepared membranes. The effects of membrane preparation conditions, including solvent type, non-solvent type, non-solvent/solvent volumetric ratio, polymer weight fraction, and drying temperature on the gas separation properties of dry PC membranes were investigated using Taguchi experimental design. Taguchi analysis show that polymer weight fraction offers the most important effect on the separation characteristics of the dry PC membranes. To get the highest... 

The purpose of the present project is to construct and improve the quality of an absorbable membrane using a supercritical process and study the effects of the operative parameters. Today, usage of biodegradable polymers is intensively increasing and these kinds of polymers are used as drug delivery carrier and tissue engineering medium. A biodegradable membrane is suitable for this goal. In this study Poly Ethylene Glycol (PEG) is used as the biodegradable polymer. Gas anti-solvent (GAS) method was applied for the production of the membrane. The used anti-solvent was Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. In order to study the effects of the operative parameters on the structure of the produced... 

In this study the kinetics of extraction of various hydrocarbons from crude oil using supercritical CO2 has been studied experimentally. The effect of parameters such as temperature (35, 45, 55, 65 °C), pressure (90, 110, 130, 150 bar), initial volume of crude oil (16, 19, 22, 25 mL) were investigated. Flow rate of gas has been recorded dynamically. QUALITECH 4 and MATLAB neural network softwares have been used for designing the experiments and modeling the final results, respectively. Pressure has a direct effect on extraction yield and by increasing it, heavier fractions could be obtained. On the other hand, the effect of temperature is more complicated, by increasing the temperature, the... 

Liquefaction induced lateral spreading is defined as the lateral displacement of mildly sloping grounds or those ending in free faces as a result of liquefaction in subsurface soil layers. Damages imposed by lateral spreading on pile foundations supporting different types of structures such as ports, bridges and buildings are usually observed in large earthquakes. These potential damages are of high degree of importance in southern and northern coastal areas of Iran where several ports and critical facilities are located. River banks all over the country where bridge piers exist are also among the areas prone to potential damages. Evaluation of the effects of lateral spreading on existing...