期刊
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 102, 期 -, 页码 66-72出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2013.01.010
关键词
chemometrics; petroleum; gas-hydrate; plugging; GC-FID; crude oil
资金
- Statoil ASA, Norway
- Statoil's VISTA scholarship programme
Potential complications in the exploitation of subsea oil-fields due to gas hydrate plugs in the transportation lines lead us to explore the suitability of two routinely performed and thus easily available chemical analysis methods coupled with chemometric analysis to separate oils with high plugging potential from dispersion oils. Genov et al. (Organic Geochemistry 39 (2008) 1229-1234) successfully developed a method to separate these based on FT-IR spectroscopy coupled with chemometric analysis. Using whole-oil GC-FID data, we are able to present successful separation of these same oils in this paper and to deliver estimated molecular weight ranges showing significant impact on the plugging potential of different crudes analysed. We have localised retention time areas both in the chromatographic peak and the UCM data that strongly influence hydrate plug inhibition in some of the oils from the sample set. The results point to naturally occurring branched molecules in the nC(9)-nC(13) range which, coupled with our prior results based on functional group allocation, suggest that ester or other carbonyl moieties in these components inhibit clathrate hydrate plug build-up. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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