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When oil and gas are produced simultaneously into a separator a certain amount (mass fraction) of each component (e.g. butane) will be in the vapour phase and the rest in the liquid phase. This can be described using phase diagrams (such as those described in section 4.2) which describe the behaviour of multi-component mixtures at various temperatures and pressures. However to determine how much of each component goes into the gas or liquid phase the equilibrium constants (or equilibrium vapour liquid ratios) K must be known. 

New technology is applied to existing fields to enhance production. For example, horizontal development wells have been drilled in many mature fields to recover remaining oil, especially where the remaining oil is present in thin oil columns after the gas cap and/or aquifer have swept most of the oil. Lately, the advent of multi-lateral wells drilled with coiled tubing have provided a low cost option to produce remaining oil as well as low productivity reservoirs. 

If gas export or disposal is a problem gas re-injection into the reservoir may be an alternative, although this implies additional compression facilities. Gas production may be reduced using well intervention methods similar to those described for reducing water cut, though in this case up-dip wells would be isolated to cut back gas influx. Many of the options discussed under water treatment for multi-layered reservoirs apply equally well to the gas case. 

Frank Jahn has worked as a Petroleum Geologist mainly in Brunei, Thailand, the Netherlands and the UK. He has designed and taught multi-disciplinary training courses related to oil and gas field exploration and development worldwide. After 11 years with a multinational company he became co-founder of TRACS International in 1992 where he is a Director. 

Ar, Cs, Ga or other elements with energies between 0.5 and 10 keV), energy is deposited in the surface region of the sample by a collisional cascade. Some of the energy will return to the surface and stimulate the ejection of atoms, ions and multi-atomic clusters (figure Bl.25.8). In SIMS, secondary ions (positive or negative) are detected directly with a mass spectrometer. 

R. WintreU, The K-T Process Koppers Commercially Proven Coal and Multi-Fuel Gasifier for Synthesis Gas Production in the Chemical andFertilkyer Industries, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, Aug. 1974. 

D. Florjancic, Influence of Gas andMirMdmission on the Behavior of Single- and Multi-Stage Pumps, Sul2er Research, No. 1970. 

J. M. Gossett and A. H. Lincoff, Solute Gas Equilibriums in Multi-organicMqueous Systems, report 1981, AEOSR-TR-81-0858 order no. AD-A109082, NTIS, 1981. 

FIG. 12-34 Cross-flow of gas and solids in a cascade-type gravity dryer. (Link-Belt Co., Multi-Louvre piinciple.)... 

Simultaneous Absorption of Two Reacting Gases In multi-component physical absorption the presence of one gas often does not affect the rates of absorption of the other gases. When chemical reactions in which two or more gases are competing for the same hquid-phase reagent are involved, selectivity of absorption can be affected by... 

There are two main approaches to its solution. Traditional approach is based on preliminary separation of UGC samples to gaseous and liquid phases and their subsequent analyses [1]. This approach is well-developed and it allows obtaining quite precise results being used properly. However, this method is relatively complicated. Multi-stage procedure is a source of potential errors, then, it makes the analyses quite time consuming. More progressive approach is based on the direct analysis of the pressurized UGC samples. In both cases the determination of heavy hydrocarbons (up to C ) is made by capillary gas chromatography. 

It has been proposed that rapidly eooling the expander with steam eombined with flue gas would leave tlie expander free of deposits. This suggestion is unlikely to work witli multi-stage expanders beeause eatalyst residue is likely to remain in the spaee between the disks. Moreover, there is a eoneern that this type of eooling eould eause loealized eooling in the expander and partial deformation of eomponents. 

Pitting in Amine Service. In the early 1950s the increased use of natural gas from sour gas areas multi-... 

This example presents a gas with a temperature limit and is typically found in a halogen mixture. A multi-section compressor is required in accommodate the limit. This example illustrates one approach for the division of work between the sections to achieve a discharge temperature within the specified bound. 

The many problems with correlation and good shop tests discussed in this chapter would seem to lead to the conclusion that one should field test. It is still better, however, if at all possible, to test in the shop. The new compressor field tests should be limited to only those units where performance is in doubt and shop test correlation is just too difficult. A four sidestream multi-component hydrocarbon gas would probably qualify as difficult to shop test. 

The effect of physical processes on reactor performance is more complex than for two-phase systems because both gas-liquid and liquid-solid interphase transport effects may be coupled with the intrinsic rate. The most common types of three-phase reactors are the slurry and trickle-bed reactors. These have found wide applications in the petroleum industry. A slurry reactor is a multi-phase flow reactor in which the reactant gas is bubbled through a solution containing solid catalyst particles. The reactor may operate continuously as a steady flow system with respect to both gas and liquid phases. Alternatively, a fixed charge of liquid is initially added to the stirred vessel, and the gas is continuously added such that the reactor is batch with respect to the liquid phase. This method is used in some hydrogenation reactions such as hydrogenation of oils in a slurry of nickel catalyst particles. Figure 4-15 shows a slurry-type reactor used for polymerization of ethylene in a sluiTy of solid catalyst particles in a solvent of cyclohexane. 

From diese various estimates, die total batch cycle time t(, is used in batch reactor design to determine die productivity of die reactor. Batch reactors are used in operations dial are small and when multiproducts are required. Pilot plant trials for sales samples in a new market development are carried out in batch reactors. Use of batch reactors can be seen in pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, biochemical, and dye industries. This is because multi-product, changeable demand often requues a single unit to be used in various production campaigns. However, batch reactors are seldom employed on an industrial scale for gas phase reactions. This is due to die limited quantity produced, aldiough batch reactors can be readily employed for kinetic studies of gas phase reactions. Figure 5-4 illustrates die performance equations for batch reactors. 

The main reason for producing multi-layer co-extruded films is to get materials with better barrier properties - particularly in regard to gas permeation. The following Table shows the effects which can be achieved. Data on permeability of plastics are also given in Figs 1.13 and 1.14. 

It is user friendly and possesses a graphical user interface for developing the flow paths, ventilation system, and initial conditions. The FIRIN and CFAST modules can be bypassed and temperature, pressure, gas, release energy, mass functions of time specified. FIRAC i.s applicable to any facility (i.e., buildings, tanks, multiple rooms, etc,) with and without ventilation systems. It is applicable to multi species gas mixing or transport problems, as well as aerosol transport problems, FIRAC includes source term models for fires and limitless flow paths, except the FlRlN fire compartment limit of to no more than three... 

The PC version runs comparatively slow on large problems. FIRAC can perform lumped parameter/control volume-type analysis but is limited in detailed multidimensional modeling of a room or gaa dome space. Diffusion and turbulence within a control volume is not modeled. Multi-gas species are not included in the equations of state. 

The nomenclature introduced by Hawthorne and Davis [4] is adopted and gas turbine cycles are referred to as follows CHT, CBT, CHTX, CBTX, where C denotes compressor H, air heater B, burner (combustion) T, turbine X, heat exchanger. R and I indicate reversible and irreversible. The subscripts U and C refer to uncooled and cooled turbines in a cycle, and subscripts 1,2, M indicate the number of cooling steps (one, two or multi-step cooling). Thus, for example, [CHT] C2 indicates an irreversible cooled simple cycle with two steps of turbine cooling. The subscript T is also used to indicate that the cooling air has been throttled from the compressor delivery pres.sure. 

But another approach to multi-step cooling [8, 9] involves dealing with the turbine expansion in a manner similar to that of analysing a polytropic expansion. Fig. 4.4 shows gas flow (1 + ijj) at (p,T) entering an elementary process made up of a mixing process at constant pressure p, in which the specific temperature drops from temperature T to temperature T, followed by an isentropic expansion in which the pressure changes to (p dp) and the temperature changes from T to (7 - - dT). 

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