An efficient flash procedure using cubic equations of state

Vázquez-Román, Richart; García-Sánchez, Fernando; Salas-Padrón, Alejandrina; Hernández-Garduza, Otilio; Eliosa-Jiménez, Gaudencio

doi:10.1016/s1385-8947(00)00276-x

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“…On another hand, an enhanced simulated annealing algorithm was proposed to verify phase stability analysis and obtain the true solution of the phase equilibrium problems in multi-component systems at high pressures [8]. But, two direct and indirect algorithms solve the phase equilibrium problem to increase the flexibility of solving algorithm in the fluid phase equilibrium systems [9]. Also, a global…”

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Development an Easy-to-Use Simulator to Thermodynamic Design of Gas Condensate Reservoir’s Separators

Bakyani¹,

Heidari²,

Rasti³

et al. 2018

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Separator design in petroleum engineering is so important because of its important role in the evaluation of optimum parameters and also to achieve to maximum stock tank liquid. However, no simulator exists that simultaneously and directly optimizes the parameters "pressure", "temperature", and so on. On the other hands, Commercial simulators fix one parameter and vary another parameter to achieve the optimum conditions. So, they need long-time simulation. Moreover, gas condensate reservoirs, like another reservoirs, have this problem as well. In present paper, a self-developed simulator applied in the optimized design of gas condensate reservoir's separators by determining optimized pressure, temperature, and number of separators in order to obtain maximized tank liquid volume and minimized tank liquid density utilizing Matlab software and other commercial simulators such as Aspen-Plus, Aspen-Hysys, and PVTi to do a comparison. Also, each software was separately tested with one, two, and three separators to obtain the optimum number of separators. Additionally, Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR EOS) has been applied in the simulation. For simulation input, a set of field data of gas condensate reservoir has been utilized, as well. The results show a good compatibility of this simulator with other simulators but in so little runtime (this simulator calculates the optimum pressure and temperature in a wide range of pressures and temperatures with the help of a simultaneous optimization algorithm in one stage) and the highest stock tank liquid is calculated with this simulator in comparison to other simulators. Also, with the help of this simulator, we are able to obtain the optimum pressure, temperature, and the number of separators in the gas condensate reservoir's separators with any desired properties. Finally, this simulator optimizes the temperatures for each separator and obtains very good results despite the other simulators that fix temperatures for all separators in most times.

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