Asphaltene Deposition Control by Chemical Inhibitors
Theoretical and Practical Prospects
- 1st Edition - August 21, 2021
- Authors: Ali Ghamartale, Shokufe Afzali, Nima Rezaei, Sohrab Zendehboudi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 1 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 0 4 5 - 3
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Request a sales quoteAsphaltene Deposition Control by Chemical Inhibitors: Theoretical and Practical Prospects is the most advanced reference focused on chemical dispersants and inhibitors from both an experimental and modeling viewpoint. Adequate knowledge of the effective parameters in each treatment method, interactions, mechanisms and economic viewpoints involved in asphaltene treatment are crucial for future development, recovery forecast, and reserve prediction, hence this reference delivers on all these aspects. Sections cover the environmental impacts of asphaltene deposition, prevention methods, and experimental methods, both static and dynamic, to test the effectiveness of inhibitors on restricting asphaltene deposition.
Rounding out with modeling methods used to simulate asphaltene-inhibitor interactions and a workflow to select suitable inhibitors by technical, economic and environmental considerations, this book will give today’s engineers and researchers the right tool to mitigate formation damage in a sustainably responsible way.
- Focuses on inhibitors, mitigators and the interplay between the asphaltene-inhibitors
- Helps readers learn from experimental models and replicate treatments with screening workflows
- Includes case studies that help readers make sustainable and economically-sound decisions on treatments
Petroleum engineers; reservoir engineers; enhanced oil recovery researchers; chemical engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter One: Asphaltene and asphaltene precipitation/deposition
- Abstract
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Asphaltenes: Properties, structures, and thermodynamic behaviors
- 1.3: Asphaltene precipitation/deposition: Description, mechanisms, and field conditions
- 1.4: Modeling asphaltene precipitation and deposition
- 1.5: Theoretical and practical challenges in asphaltene deposition
- 1.6: Economic analysis and environmental prospects of asphaltene deposition
- 1.7: Research and development in asphaltenes
- 1.8: Current and future status of asphaltenes
- 1.9: Final remarks
- Chapter Two: Asphaltene precipitation/deposition control methods
- Abstract
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Preventing asphaltene precipitation: Description, methods, and mechanisms
- 2.3: Asphaltene removal: Description, methods, and mechanisms
- 2.4: Common industrial practices
- 2.5: Theoretical and practical challenges in controlling asphaltene deposition/precipitation
- 2.6: Final remarks
- Chapter Three: Fundamentals of chemical inhibitors of asphaltenes
- Abstract
- 3.1: Chemical inhibitors
- 3.2: History/background of inhibitors
- 3.3: Types and structures of chemical inhibitors
- 3.4: Physical and chemical properties
- 3.5: Properties and prevention mechanisms of chemical inhibitors
- 3.6: Importance/application of inhibition
- 3.7: Costs of chemical inhibitors
- 3.8: Final remarks
- Chapter Four: Properties of asphaltene chemical inhibitors
- Abstract
- 4.1: Characterization techniques to determine the properties of chemical inhibitors
- 4.2: Thermodynamic behaviors of chemical inhibitors
- 4.3: Stability of inhibitors
- 4.4: Final remarks
- Chapter Five: Experimental investigation of asphaltene deposition control by chemical inhibitors
- Abstract
- 5.1: Experimental methods
- 5.2: Parametric sensitivity analysis
- 5.3: Final remarks
- Chapter Six: Modeling and simulation investigations of asphaltene deposition control by chemical inhibitors
- Abstract
- 6.1: Thermodynamic models
- 6.2: Macroscale models
- 6.3: Mesoscale models
- 6.4: Molecular models
- 6.5: Smart models
- 6.6: Simulation tools
- 6.7: Parametric sensitivity analysis
- 6.8: Asphaltene and inhibitor interaction coordination
- 6.9: Final remarks
- Chapter Seven: Inhibitor screening workflow
- Abstract
- 7.1: Critical parameters for screening inhibitors
- 7.2: Technical screening criteria
- 7.3: Nontechnical screening criteria
- 7.4: Final remarks
- Index
- No. of pages: 252
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 21, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905107
- eBook ISBN: 9780323910453
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Ali Ghamartale
Ali Ghamartale is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He earned a PhD in oil and gas engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, a M.Sc. and B.Sc., both in reservoir engineering from Shiraz University. Ali was previously a technician at PetroAzma Company and programmer in MATLAB and has earned one patent.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaSA
Shokufe Afzali
Shokufe Afzali is currently a Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaNR
Nima Rezaei
Nima Rezaei is currently a Post-doctoral at the Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Kuwait University and Shiraz University. Nima earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo, a M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Shiraz University, and a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Nima is a member of AIChE, CIS, and SPE.
Affiliations and expertise
Post-doctoral, Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaSZ
Sohrab Zendehboudi
Sohrab is currently an Assistant Professor and Statoil Chair in Reservoir Analysis in the Department of Process Engineering at Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada. Dr. Zendehboudi's expertise and interests are in reservoir analysis, oil and gas energy, carbon management, and transport phenomena. For more than 10 years, he has worked as a process engineer, researcher, instructor, co-supervisor, and professor at various companies and universities in Iran, Kuwait, USA, and Canada. Dr. Zendehboudi holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering, specializing in transport phenomena in porous media from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, CanadaRead Asphaltene Deposition Control by Chemical Inhibitors on ScienceDirect