Paraffin deposition during the flow of water-in-oil and oil-in-water dispersions in pipes

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 395-408

  Bruno, Antonio ^a,b   Sarica, Cem ^a   Chen, Hong ^a,c   Volk, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Chevron ^*

^c Doris Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; MIXTURES; PARAFFIN OILS; PARAFFINS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TESTING;

APPARENT VISCOSITY; DEPOSIT THICKNESS; DEPOSITION MECHANISM; MODEL PREDICTION; PARAFFIN DEPOSITION; PARAFFIN DEPOSITION MODELING; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

DEPOSITS;

EID: 58849167420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/114747-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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