1. A New Approach to Calculate Shutdown and Restart Pressure of Waxy Crude Pipeline
- Author
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Bo Cui, Jia Jun Li, Hao Lan, Jing Nan Zhang, and Hong Tao Diao
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Pressure drop ,Thixotropy ,Engineering ,Petroleum engineering ,Discretization ,business.industry ,Computation ,Shutdown ,Pipeline (computing) ,General Medicine ,business ,Crude oil - Abstract
On the basis of Tianyou Liu start-up pressure calculation model, the restart pressure model was divided into three parts. Considering the pressure drop caused by elevation difference along the pipeline, friction pressure drop was solved by pipe regional discretization and Houska thixotropic model was used in the pressure drop caused by thixotropic factor. A new calculation method of waxy crude oil pipeline restart pressure was set up and Qin-Jing Pipeline data were substituted into corresponding analog computation. Calculation results are in conformity with the actual situation and the new calculation method is more widely applicable.
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- 2015
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