Affiliation:
1. The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
AbstractMany conventional surfactant-brine-oil phase behavior tests are conducted under ambient pressure conditions without the solution gas. It is known that the solution gas lowers the optimum salinity. Researchers often mix toluene (or cyclohexane) with the dead oil and form a surrogate oil to mimic the live oil. The objective of our work is to study the effect of gas and toluene on phase behavior, and to provide the proper amount of toluene to be mixed to mimic the live oil. Effects of toluene in surrogate oil and solution gas in live oil are examined by hydrophilic-lipophilic difference and net average curvature (HLD-NAC) structural model simulation and the equivalent alkane carbon number (EACN). Experimental values from literature and our experiments are also examined to compare those with the simulation results. For the simulation, both the mole fraction and mass fraction were used to calculate mixture EACN and examine the effect of additional components. HLD-NAC simulation results showed that the mass fraction-based simulation is more accurate (~7% error) than mole fraction-based simulation (~19% error) with a toluene EACN of 1. For larger molecules like toluene in surrogate oil, EACN using mole fraction also works with a toluene EACN of 5.2. The EACN of the surrogate oil should match the EACN of the live oil to determine the proper amount of toluene in the surrogate oil.
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