Mathematical Modeling of Asphaltene Precipitation: A Review
In the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) method, use of Carbon dioxide flooding whereby CO2 is injected into an oil reservoir to increase output when extracting oil resulted significant recovery worldwide. The carbon dioxide function as a pressurizing agent when mixed into the underground crude oil will reduce its viscosity and will enable a rapid oil flow. Despite the CO2’s advantage in the oil recovery, it may result to asphaltene precipitation a problem that will cause the reduction of oil produced from oil wells. In severe cases, asphaltene precipitation can cause costly blockages in oil pipes and machinery. This paper presents reviews of several studies done on mathematical modeling of asphaltene precipitation. The synthesized result from several researches done on this topic can be used as guide in order to better understand asphaltene precipitation. Likewise, this can be used as initial reference for students, and new researchers doing study on asphaltene precipitation.
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International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control,
SPE, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, 2006.
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precipitation Resulting from CO2 Gas Injection in Iranian Carbonate
Reservoir, SPE Production and Operation 23(2),2008.
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Characteristics Including Two-Phase Flow, Journal of the Japan
Petroleum Institute, 2009.
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International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, SPE Inc., 1997.
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Vol. 50,10, pp..
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Asphaltene Precipitation”, Journal of Petrol Technology, 42,1440,1990
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reservoir Fluids: A Thermodynamic Predictive Technique”, SPE,
Reservoir Engineering, 185, May 1991.
[33] K. Mannistu, H. Yarranton, and J. Masliyah, “Solubility Modeling of
Asphaltene in Organic Solvents”, Energy Fuels, 11, 615, 1997.
[34] S. Godbole and K. Thele, “EOS Modeling and Experimental
Observations of Three-Hydrocarbon-Phase Equilibria”, SPE24936, SPE
Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Washington D.C.,
October 4-7, 1992.
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Behavior Including the Effect of Pressure and Temperature on
Asphaltene Precipitation”, SPE 64465, SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas
Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, Oct. 16-18, 2000.
[36] W. Chapman, K. Gubbins, G. Jackson, and M. Radosz, “SAFT:
Equation of State Solution Model for Associating Fluids”, Fluid Phase
equilibria, 52,31,1989.
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Equation of State for Associating Liquids”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research,
29, 1709, 1990.
[1] “Types of Crude Oil-Classification of Crude Oil”, Oil Proces.org News
on Oil, Natural Gas & Energy Prices http://www.oilprices.org/types-ofcrude-
oil.html. Accessed on Jan. 18,2013.
[2] “What is Crude Oil? A Detailed Explanation on this Essential Fossil
Fuel” http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/.What-is-Crude-Oil-ADetailed
Explanation-on-this-Essential-Fossil-Fuel. Accessed on January
18, 2013.
[3] API Gravity, Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org
[4] /wiki/API_gravity. Accessed on Jnauary 17,2013. Neste Oil.org
Refining the Future, http://twitter.com/nesteoilgroup. Accessed on
January 18, 2013.
[5] L.W. Lake, R.L. Schim AND p. b. Venuto, “A Niche for Enhanced Oil
Recovery in the 1990’s, 1992.
[6] Enhanced Oil Recovery Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiEnhanced_oil_recovery, Accessed on
January 21, 2013.
[7] F.M. Nazir and Y.Y. Chong, The Effect of Didderent Carbon Dioxide
Modes on Oil Recovery, International Journal of Engineering and
Technology IJET Vol.9, No. 10, pp. 66-72, November 2009.
[8] D Green and G. Willhite, “Enhanced Oil Recovery”, Society of
Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, Texas, 1998.
[9] I. H. Auflem, “Influence of Asphaltene Agregation and Pressure on
Crude Oil Emulsion Stability”, PhD Dissertation, Department of
Chemical Engineering Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, p. 10, June, 2002.
[10] s. Sim, K. Takabayashi, K. Okashu and D. Fisher, “Asphaltene Induced
Formation Damage: Effect of Asphaltene Particle Size and Core
Permeability”, SPE95515, Proceedings in SPE Annual technical
Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, USA, October 9-12,2005.
[11] S.L. Kokal and S.G. Sayegh, “Asphaltenes: The Cholesterol of
Petroleum”, SPE29787, Proceedings in SPE1995 Middle East Oil Show,
Bahrain, March 11-14, 1995.
[12] Paraffin Deposition and Control, http://paraffindepositionand
control.wikispaces.com/5.+Asphaltene, Accessed on January 21, 2013.
[13] G. King, “Asphaltenes”. GEKingengineering.com,
http://gekinginengineering.com.Downloads/Free_Downloads/Asphalten
e_Deposition_and_Removal.pdf, Accessed on September 15, 2011.
[14] Micelle-Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Micelle, Accessed on January 21, 2013.
[15] S. Takahashi, Y. Hayashi, N. Yazawa and H. Sarma, Characteristics and
Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation During CO2 Sandstone and
Carbonate Cores: An Investigation Analysis through Laboratory Test
and Compositional Simulations, SPE 84895, 2003.
[16] D. Fisher, N. Yazawa, H. Sarma, M. Girard, A. Turta, H. Huang, A New
Method to Characterize the Size and Shape Dynamics of Asphaltene
Deposition Process in CO2 Miscible Flooding, SPE84893, International
Improved Oil Recovery Conference Asia Pacific in Kuala Lumpur, Oct.
20-21,2003.
[17] R.S.Srivasttava, S. Huang, Asphaltene Deposition during CO2 Flooding:
A Laboratory Assessment, SPE 37468, 1977.
[18] S. Verdier, H. Carrier, S. Andersen, J. Daridon, Study of Pressure and
Temperature Effects on Asphaltene Stability in Presence of CO2 Energy
Fuels, Vol. 20, pp. 1584-1590,2006.
[19] D Gonzales, F. Vargas, G. Hirasaki, W. Chapman, Modeling Study of
CO2 –Induced Asphaltene Precipitation, Energy and Fuels Vol. 22, pp.
757-762, 2008.
[20] L. Nghiem and D. Combe, “Modeling Asphaltene Precipitation During
Primary Depletion”, SPE 36106, SPE 4th Latin America and Carribean
Petroleum Engineering Conference, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April
23-26, 1966.
[21] S. Alian, A. Omar and I Hani, “Study of Asphaltene Precipitation
Induced Formation Damage during CO2 Injection for a Malaysian Light
Oil”, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 78, pp.
733-737.
[22] A. Khanifar, B. Demiral, S. Alian and N. Darman, “Study of Asphaltene
Precipitation and Deposition Phenomenon”, IEEE, 2011
[23] L. Nabzar, M. Aguilera and Y. Rajoub, Experimental Study on
Asphaltene Induced Formation Damage, SPE International Symposium
on Oilfield Chemistry, Society of Petroleum Engineers Inc., The
Woodlands, Texas, 2005.
[24] S. Wang and F. Civan, Productivity Decline of Vertical and Horizontal
Wells by Asphaltene Deposition in Petroleum Reservoirs, SPE
International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, SPE Inc., Houston
Texas, 2001.
[25] R.T. Okwen, Formation Damage by CO2 Asphaltene Precipitation,
International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control,
SPE, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, 2006.
[26] A. Kalantari-Dahghi, et al., Formation Damage through Asphaltene
precipitation Resulting from CO2 Gas Injection in Iranian Carbonate
Reservoir, SPE Production and Operation 23(2),2008.
[27] B.D. Zarin Nasri, Effect of Asphaltene Deposition on Oil Reservoir
Characteristics Including Two-Phase Flow, Journal of the Japan
Petroleum Institute, 2009.
[28] L. Minssieux, Core Damage From Crude Asphaltene Deposition,
International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, SPE Inc., 1997.
[29] L. X. Nghiem, et al., Efficiency Modeling of Asphaltene Precipitation,
SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE Inc., 1993.
[30] E. Buenrostro Gonzales, C. Lira Galeana, A. Gil Villegran, and J. Wu,
“Asphaltene Precipitation in Crude Oils’ Theory and Experiments”,
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Vol. 50,10, pp..
2552-2570, October 2004.
[31] N. Burke, R. Hobbs, and S. Kashou, “Measurement and Modeling of
Asphaltene Precipitation”, Journal of Petrol Technology, 42,1440,1990
[32] S. Kawanaka, S. Park, and G. Mansoori, “Organic Deposition from
reservoir Fluids: A Thermodynamic Predictive Technique”, SPE,
Reservoir Engineering, 185, May 1991.
[33] K. Mannistu, H. Yarranton, and J. Masliyah, “Solubility Modeling of
Asphaltene in Organic Solvents”, Energy Fuels, 11, 615, 1997.
[34] S. Godbole and K. Thele, “EOS Modeling and Experimental
Observations of Three-Hydrocarbon-Phase Equilibria”, SPE24936, SPE
Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Washington D.C.,
October 4-7, 1992.
[35] B. Koshe, L. Nghiem, H. Maeda, and K. Ono, “Modeling Phase
Behavior Including the Effect of Pressure and Temperature on
Asphaltene Precipitation”, SPE 64465, SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas
Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, Oct. 16-18, 2000.
[36] W. Chapman, K. Gubbins, G. Jackson, and M. Radosz, “SAFT:
Equation of State Solution Model for Associating Fluids”, Fluid Phase
equilibria, 52,31,1989.
[37] W. Chapman, K. Gubbins, G. Jackson, and M. Radosz, “New Reference
Equation of State for Associating Liquids”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research,
29, 1709, 1990.
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