Flow modeling of a battery of industrial crude oil/gas separators using 113mIn tracer experiments

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 760-765

  Constant Machado, Héctor ^a   Leclerc, Jean Pierre ^b   Avilan, Eddie ^a   Landaeta, Gustavo ^a   Añorga, Nelkys ^c   Capote, Oscar ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^d Petróleos de Venezuela ^*  (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Liquid gas separators; RTD; Tracers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INDIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCRUBBERS; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

GAS PHASE; GAS SEPARATORS; IMPULSE INJECTION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS (RTD);

SEPARATORS;

CRUDE OIL; FLOW MODELING; GAS-LIQUID SEPARATION; RESIDENCE TIME;

EID: 14844339435     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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