Method for detecting and controlling the formation of hydrates at any point in a line in which polyphasic petroleum fluids circulate
CA 2374089 C · Owner: Institut Francais Du Petrole · Inventors: Lachet, Veronique; Henriot, Veronique; Heintze, Eric
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Method intended for continuous detection and control of hydrate formation at any point of a pipe carrying multiphase petroleum fluids. The method uses a compositional code allowing to simulate the circulation modes and conditions at any point of the pipe considering that the fluid mixture is substantially continuously at equilibrium that the composition of the multiphase mixture is variable all along the pipe and that the mass of each constituent of the mixture is globally defined by a mass conservation equation regardless of its phase state. The thermodynamic hydrate formation conditions are detected after a particular stage of grouping the petroleum fluids into pseudo-components so as to …
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- Filed February 26, 2002 and granted January 11, 2011. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 26, 2022.
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