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CONEM 2018
X Congresso Nacional de Engenharia Mecânica
COMPORTAMENTO DA TEMPERATURA DURANTE O ESCOAMENTO DE PETRÓLEO EM LINHAS DE PRODUÇÃO UTILIZANDO CFD
Submission Author:
SANDRO LUIS DA COSTA ALVES , MA
Co-Authors:
Sandro Alves, Luzia Aparecida Tofaneli, Juliana Cordeiro
Presenter: Sandro Alves
doi://10.26678/ABCM.CONEM2018.CON18-0067
Abstract
Throughout human history petroleum has become the most widely used mineral resource. However, the exploitation of the oil has the aggravation of the paraffin during its flow in the production lines, thus contributing to a lower production and compulsory stops for the dewaxing of the production lines until the arrival at the primary processing station. The objective of this work is to verify the behavior of the oil temperature during its flow in a production line made from carbon steel and to compare it with the fiberglass production line of an oil well located in the city of Catu - BA. An oil well equipped with a carbon steel production line was identified and characterized in the Água Grande oil field, followed by numerical simulations of the oil flow using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) through ANSYS CFX® software to determine the temperature of the oil during its flow. The results of the simulations showed that the variation of the oil temperature in the fiberglass tubing was lower than in the carbon steel pipe. In this way, it can be concluded that the replacement of the production line of carbon steel by fiberglass in oil wells, besides avoiding the corrosion of the pipes, can guarantee a lower temperature variation along the flow and consequently avoiding the paraffin.
Keywords
Petroleum, Production line, Temperature, CFD
