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Where can SARA analysis be performed in INDIA?

Is the facility available in any of the IIT'S?

09 September 2016 3,054 5 View

Are CNTs able to enhance octane number?

I am doing research on the topic Increasing octane number of gasoline using amino-functionalized CNTs. However, most the papers I read just notice that CNTs are useful additives for increasing the...

09 September 2016 10,050 3 View

Can I sterilize petroleum oil using an autoclave?

Im working on fungal oil degradation. My problem is sterilzation of diesel oil. How should I go about it?

09 September 2016 5,175 5 View

How to determine the distillation process time for crude oil constituent?

How can one determine the process time it takes to derive each constituent(LPG, Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel etc ) of crude oil during its distillation. I am working on a simulation to model crude...

09 September 2016 5,307 2 View

What is the quantity of emulsifier needed for preparing a w/o emulsion ?

oil composition (Hydrocarbons, C10 - C13, n - alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics,

09 September 2016 9,793 1 View

How to determine the distillation process time for crude oil constituent?

How can one determine the process time it takes to derive each constituent(LPG, Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel etc ) of crude oil during its distillation. I am working on a simulation to model crude...

02 September 2016 4,954 2 View

Can I sterilize petroleum oil using an autoclave?

Im working on fungal oil degradation. My problem is sterilzation of diesel oil. How should I go about it?

01 September 2016 5,864 4 View

Could anyone clarify if the temperature at the sandface (as detected by DTS) effected by reservoir properties like skin, permeability etc?

I understand that reservoir properties wil have an effect in producer wells. But what about injector wells? Will thermal effects travel upstream against the flow of the injector fluid in the...

10 August 2016 9,452 12 View

Could you provide me information about petroleum refining process? Equipment and about process parameters?

We need to establish a testing kit for our project. Who can provide me necessary information related my question?

08 August 2016 5,528 5 View

Could anyone clarify if the temperature at the sandface (as detected by DTS) effected by reservoir properties like skin, permeability etc?

I understand that reservoir properties wil have an effect in producer wells. But what about injector wells? Will thermal effects travel upstream against the flow of the injector fluid in the...

08 August 2016 6,724 13 View

What is the process to fracture a core sample? is there any way to hydraulically fracture a core sample? What is the apparatus and procedure?

I need the lab process.

08 August 2016 7,681 4 View

How to plot centrifuge capillary pressure vs corrected saturation?

Dear colleagues, I measured centrifuge capillary pressure vs average water saturation. Now I want to plot capillary pressure vs corrected water saturation. I plotted corrected first drainage...

08 August 2016 5,877 2 View

Could you provide me information about petroleum refining process? Equipment and about process parameters?

We need to establish a testing kit for our project. Who can provide me necessary information related my question?

01 August 2016 8,901 4 View

Heavy oil reservor

Dose any one has the simulation data for heavy oil reservoir?

22 July 2016 5,138 3 View

What is production mechanism of Haft Kel field?

how is Haft Kel Field produced and how is the CO2 as injection considered in the flow simulation?

10 July 2016 982 2 View

Procedure to solve s-PC-SAFT for multiple components?

i am currently studying the PC-SAFT eos , have found many literature regarding binary-mixture VLE prediction involoving the inclusion of binary interaction parameter, but when we talk of Crude...

07 July 2016 5,076 1 View

What is role of Anhydrate for LSW of Carbonate reservoirs?

Hi Everyone. As you probably know that one item that is involving during injection of low salinity water flooding into Carbonate reservoirs, is the presence of Anhydrite. Austa et. al published a...

07 July 2016 2,555 2 View

How is a capillary pressure curve used to determine the initial distribution of fluids in a reservoir?

Capillary pressure is an important rock property, how it can be used to determine where does oil exist?

07 July 2016 7,051 6 View

What should be the amount of surfactant required for emulsion polymerization ?

How much surfactant should be used for emulsion polymerization? Should it be more than CMC of surfactant? Or does its concentration depends upon amount of hydrophobic monomer?

07 July 2016 1,411 4 View

Heavy oil reservor

Dose any one has the simulation data for heavy oil reservoir?

07 July 2016 4,528 4 View

What is production mechanism of Haft Kel field?

how is Haft Kel Field produced and how is the CO2 as injection considered in the flow simulation?

07 July 2016 6,419 2 View

Why does a steam generator show more than 100% efficiency (in terms of mass balance)?

I am working on a steam generator efficiency project. Here is a sample data : Amount of Feedwater - 12.33 m^3/hour = 12000 kg/hr (assuming density = 1000 kg/m^3) Amount of Steam generated - 14450...

10 June 2016 7,195 9 View

Why does a steam generator show more than 100% efficiency (in terms of mass balance)?

I am working on a steam generator efficiency project. Here is a sample data : Amount of Feedwater - 12.33 m^3/hour = 12000 kg/hr (assuming density = 1000 kg/m^3) Amount of Steam generated - 14450...

06 June 2016 2,381 10 View

How to ensure that your end of production history rates match for both your simulation and predictions using mbal?

ok, so i'm building this mbal model but the average rates i'm getting in my prediction for the start of prediction i.e end of production history does not match for that day, but the rates on other...

06 June 2016 2,625 2 View

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