Nitrogen-generating
systems (NGS) have been used by the oil industry
for treatments in flow assurance, because the system consists of a
highly exothermic nitrosation reaction that can act as an in situ generator of heat for the fluidization of low-melting-point
organic deposit or gas hydrate buildup. In this work, attenuated total
reflection/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR/FTIR) was
used to monitor and quantify the components in the NGS reactions and
a 24 central composite design of experiment was used to
model the total amount of heat released by the system at different
times, working as an empirical kinetic modeling. The modeling showed
great results for the prediction of the kinetic profile in new conditions,
showing an average percentage error of 7.5% when compared to the experimental
measurement using ATR/FTIR. With the achieved models, a graphical
user interface was constructed in MATLAB for the prediction of the
kinetic profile of the NGS, with possible applications for the fluidization
of paraffin/wax in tanks by the industry.
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