Pressure falling

As the reservoir pressure drops from the initial reservoir pressure towards the bubble point pressure (PJ, the oil expands slightly according to its compressibility. However, once the pressure of the oil drops below the bubble point, gas is liberated from the oil, and the remaining oil occupies a smaller volume. The gas dissolved in the oil is called the solution gas, and the ratio of the volume gas dissolved per volume of oil is called the solution gas oil ratio (Rg, measured in scf/stb of sm /stm ). Above the bubble point, Rg is constant and is known as the initial solution gas oil ratio (Rgj), but as the pressure falls below the bubble point and solution gas is liberated, Rg decreases. The volume of gas liberated is (Rg - Rg) scf/stb. 

Fluid samples may be collected downhole at near-reservoir conditions, or at surface. Subsurface samples are more expensive to collect, since they require downhole sampling tools, but are more likely to capture a representative sample, since they are targeted at collecting a single phase fluid. A surface sample is inevitably a two phase sample which requires recombining to recreate the reservoir fluid. Both sampling techniques face the same problem of trying to capture a representative sample (i.e. the correct proportion of gas to oil) when the pressure falls below the bubble point. 

When the relative pressure falls to pj/p", the second group of pores loses its capillary condensate, but in addition the film on the walls of the first group of pores yields up some adsorbate, owing to the decrease in its thickness from t, to t. Similarly, when the relative pressure is further reduced to pj/p°, the decrement (nj-Wj) in the uptake will include contributions from the walls of both groups 1 and 2 (as the film thins down from tj to fj), in addition to the amount of capillary condensate lost from the cores of group 3. It is this composite nature of the amount given up at each step which complicates the calculation of the pore size distribution. 

When the relative pressure falls to P2/p°, corresponding to r = 80 A, the second group of pores will have given up a volume of adsorbate equal to dv 22-But since the film thickness has now diminished to t2, there will have been an additional loss from the walls of group 1 the total loss from group 1 is therefore so that the total loss from both groups is... 

Because of the low efficiency of steam-ejector vacuum systems, there is a range of vacuum above 13 kPa (100 mm Hg) where mechanical vacuum pumps are usually more economical. The capital cost of the vacuum pump goes up roughly as (suction volume) or (l/P). This means that as pressure falls, the capital cost of the vacuum pump rises more swiftly than the energy cost of the steam ejector, which iacreases as (1 /P). Usually below 1.3 kPa (10 mm Hg), the steam ejector is more cost-effective. 

The principal mechanism of the hypotensive effect of diuretics (qv) is salt and fluid depletion, leading to reduction in blood volume (200,240). Acute effects lead to a decrease in cardiac output and an increase in total peripheral resistance. However, during chronic adrninistration, cardiac output and blood volume return toward normal and total peripheral resistance decreases to below pretreatment values. As a result, the blood pressure falls. The usual reduction in blood volume is about 5%. A certain degree of sustained blood volume contraction has to occur before the blood pressure decreases. The usual decrease in blood pressure achieved using a diuretic is about 20/10 mm Hg (2.7/1.3 kPa) (systoHc/diastoHc pressures. 

A further substantial improvement in control response was achieved by including the expander inlet pressure into the control algorithm. With this change, the regenerator pressure falls by only 5 mbar, thereafter rising by 9 mbar, representing a fluctuation that is substantially below the contractual agreement. 

The inerts will blanket a portion of the tubes. The blanketed portion has very poor heat transfer. The column pressure is controlled by varying the percentage of the tube surface blanketed. When the desired pressure is exceeded, the vacuum system will suck out more inerts, and lower the percentage of surface blanketed. This will increase cooling and bring the pressure back down to the desired level. The reverse happens if the pressure falls below that desired. This is simply a matter of adjusting the heat transfer coefficient to heat balance the system. 

Vapor must also be avoided in the suction piping to the pump. It is possible to have intermediate spots in the system where the pressure falls below the liquid s vapor pressure if careful design is not done. 

For the standby pump start test, which is an important test to ensure the pumps transfer without large pressure swings, a check should be made to see if the relief valves lift or the pressure falls to a pressure one half the difference between the standby pump start pressure and the compressor trip pressure. The transient pressure is best measured with a multipen chart recorder. The chart speed must be high enough to fully display the pressure variation. While not as good as the chart recorder, a simple shop-made test setup can be substituted. A spare switch is temporarily connected to the same location as the other switches. This switch is calibrated to close at the threshold acceptance pressure. The contacts are wired to a test light through a seal relay. The purpose of the relay is to maintain the cir-... 

If the mobile phase is a liquid, and can be considered incompressible, then the volume of the mobile phase eluted from the column, between the injection and the peak maximum, can be easily obtained from the product of the flow rate and the retention time. For more precise measurements, the volume of eluent can be directly measured volumetrically by means of a burette or other suitable volume measuring vessel that is placed at the end of the column. If the mobile phase is compressible, however, the volume of mobile phase that passes through the column, measured at the exit, will no longer represent the true retention volume, as the volume flow will increase continuously along the column as the pressure falls. This problem was solved by James and Martin [3], who derived a correction factor that allowed the actual retention volume to be calculated from the retention volume measured at the column outlet at atmospheric pressure, and a function of the inlet/outlet pressure ratio. This correction factor can be derived as follows. 

It is seen that, at low inlet/outlet pressure ratios (i.e.,y < 2), the pressure falls almost linearly from the inlet to the outlet of the column. At higher inlet/outlet pressure... 

Like current PWRs, accumulators provide the initial makeup flow in case of a LOCA. Each 1,7(X) ft accumulator is pressurized with 300 ft of nitrogen at 700 psi to force open check valves and inject into the RCS when pressure falls below this pressure. The IRWST provides... 

Should start automatically when supply pressure falls below a certain level. 

In addition to pressure maintenance in a resei voir, there are other ways to maintain or improve well productivity as the formation pressure falls. A pump can be used to raise the oil, a process called artificial lift. One type is the familiar beam pump with its surface power unit driving up and down one end of a center-mounted beam while the other end executes the opposite down-up motion. The second end is attached to a string of sucker rods that extend down to the bottom of the well and operate a pump arrangement, consisting of a cylinder, plunger, and one-way A alves. Other types of pumps in use eliminate the sucker rod and may have the power unit at... 

Oil production requires pressure from compressed gas or water to expel oil to the surface. There arc three main types of rcsci voir drives to flush oil to wells dissolved gas drive, gas-cap drive, and water drive. With a gas drive, the oil in the reservoir is saturated with dissolved gas. As pressures fall with oil production, the gas escapes from solution, expands, and propels oil to the surface. Hence it is important to control gas production so it remains available to remove the oil. With a gas-cap drive, the upper part of the reseiwoh is filled with gas, and oil lies beneath it. As oil is withdrawn, the compressed gas expands downward, pushing oil to the well bore. As with a dissolved gas drive, gas production from the gas cap should be restricted to maintain reservoir pressure to expel the oil. Finally, with a water drive, the oil lies above a layer of water. The compressed water... 

Resealing Pressure the pressure after valve opening under pressure that the internal static pressure falls to when there is no further leakage through the pressure relief valve. See Figure 7-7A. 

WTien the relief device relieves, the explosion pressure falls off, but then it increases faster than in the beginning due to the opening of the relief when the flame front is distorted creating an acceleration of the combustion process [54]. Thus, there are two pressure peaks in the course of the relieving (1) at the activation of the relief device due to pressure buildup in the vessel, and (2) at the end of the combustion reaction. The first pressure is always greater than the second. The second pressure rise is created by turbulence during the venting process [54]. 

Basically all formations penetrated during drilling are porous and permeable to some degree. Fluids contained in pore spaces are under pressure that is overbalanced by the drilling fluid pressure in the well bore. The bore-hole pressure is equal to the hydrostatic pressure plus the friction pressure loss in the annulus. If for some reason the borehole pressure falls below the formation fluid pressure, the formation fluids can enter the well. Such an event is known as a kick. This name is associated with a rather sudden flowrate increase observed at the surface. 

Cavitation is the term to used to describe the formation of bubbles in liquid flow when the local pressure falls to around vapor pressure. Two effects are experienced in the pump a reduction in flow rate (accompanied. 

During the suction stroke, the compressor piston starts its downward stroke and the air under pressure in the clearance space rapidly expands until the pressure falls below that on the opposite side of the inlet valve (Point B). This difference in pressure causes the inlet valve to open into the cylinder until the piston reaches the bottom of its stroke (Point C). 

To protect the reactor and the regenerator against a flow reversal, pressure differential controllers are used to monitor and control the differential pressures across the slide valves. If the differential pressure falls below a minimum set-point, the pressure differential controller (PDIC) overrides the process controller and closes the valve. Only after the PDIC is satisfied will the control of the slide valve return to the process. 

When the compressor is idle, the lubricating oil may contain a certain amount of dissolved refrigerant, depending on the pressure, temperature, and the refrigerant itself. At the moment of starting, the oil will be diluted by this refrigerant and, as the suction pressure falls, gas will boil out of the oil, causing it to foam. 

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