Enhancing the flexibility of pipeline infrastructure to cope with heavy oils: Incremental thermal retrofit
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- 作者：Emilio Diaz-Bejaranoa ; Andrey V. Porsinb ; c ; Sandro Macchiettoa ; s.macchietto@imperial.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Crude oil ; Pipeline ; Modelling ; Transportation ; Drag reduction
- 刊名：Applied Thermal Engineering
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：25 July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：105
- 期：Complete
- 页码：170-179
- 全文大小：1255 K
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Intermediate heating proposed to adapt pipelines for transport of heavier oils.
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Viscosity is reduced and significant savings in throughput can be achieved.
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A flexible modelling framework to simulate oil pipelines is presented.
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Concept illustrated in a case study of a 300 km section of the Russia-China pipeline.
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Incremental addition and relocation of the heat duty using modular heating stations.