Metodología para el diseño hidrodinámico de oleoducto de crudos pesados

Abstract

Due to the constant technological progress in the oil extraction as a source of energy in a country, companies have needed improving and optimizing these processes to obtain a better product. This process has brought negative consequences to the environment because of the lack of hydrodynamic analysis of pipelines. For this reason, it is proposed to develop a simulation of the heavy crude transportation process to minimize environmental impacts. This research aimed to develop a viable methodology for the hydrodynamic design of heavy crude oil pipelines at steady state, which was developed as a tool to simulate the behavior of the physical and thermal properties of a heavy hydrocarbon as a function of variation of its temperature. The research analyzed the principle of mass conservation and energy conservation, developing a differential equation for the temperature profile. Subroutines were then developed to calculate each of the variables using MatLab software, showing data, representing functions and communication with other software. In conclusion, this project has fulfilled the proposed objectives, determining the variation of the physical-thermal properties of a heavy crude when in steady state.