A robust and efficient algorithm for vapor-liquid-equilibrium/liquid-liquid-equilibrium (VLE/LLE) phase boundary tracking

Chen, Zhuo; Xu, Lingfei; Zhou, Ying; Li, Ruixue; Li, Huazhou

doi:10.1016/j.ces.2022.118286

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Effect of water presence on asphaltene-precipitation behavior of CO2 and crude oil mixtures during CCUS processes

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Applied Thermal Engineering

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Effect of water presence on asphaltene-precipitation behavior of CO2 and crude oil mixtures during CCUS processes

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Wang,

Zhang

et al. 2025

Applied Thermal Engineering

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Efficient tracking of Vapor-Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium/Liquid-Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium (VLAE/LLAE) phase boundaries

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Shi,

Zhou

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Chemical Engineering Science

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A Robust Four-Phase Equilibrium Calculation Algorithm for Hydrocarbon-Water Mixtures at Pressure and Enthalpy Specifications

2023

SPE Western Regional Meeting

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A robust multiphase equilibrium calculation algorithm with pressure and enthalpy (PH) specifications, i.e., an isenthalpic algorithm, plays an important role in the compositional simulations of steam-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications (such as steam and solvent co-injection process for heavy oil recovery). Up to now, there are few works documented in the literature focusing on four-phase isenthalpic algorithms. In this paper, we propose a four-phase isenthalpic algorithm with a nested approach. It contains an inner loop and an outer loop. In the inner loop, a well-designed isobaric/isothermal (PT) multiphase (up to four phases) equilibrium algorithm is employed to solve the phase fractions and compositions, while the Brent's method (1971) is applied in the outer loop to update the temperature by satisfying the energy conservation equation. We test the performance of the proposed algorithm using four case studies under different pressure-enthalpy conditions. Calculation results demonstrate that the proposed PH algorithm is always able to converge to the correct phase equilibria with only tens of PT algorithm calls.

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A robust and efficient algorithm for vapor-liquid-equilibrium/liquid-liquid-equilibrium (VLE/LLE) phase boundary tracking

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Effect of water presence on asphaltene-precipitation behavior of CO2 and crude oil mixtures during CCUS processes

Effect of water presence on asphaltene-precipitation behavior of CO2 and crude oil mixtures during CCUS processes

Efficient tracking of Vapor-Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium/Liquid-Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium (VLAE/LLAE) phase boundaries

A Robust Four-Phase Equilibrium Calculation Algorithm for Hydrocarbon-Water Mixtures at Pressure and Enthalpy Specifications

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