Generación de vapor en la industria petrolera: análisis de las posibles aplicaciones y usos en la industria ecuatoriana.

Abstract

In the oil industry it is necessary to look for alternative processes to generate energy by optimizing the waste of industrial wastes such as water produced, drilling muds among others, which can create great savings in the production costs of a company and also somehow help protect the environment where production processes are developed. One of the alternatives that will be developed throughout this work is the use of steam from formation water in different activities of the Ecuadorian industry, with a deeper focus on the oil industry. Steam can be handled as a source of heat as well as mechanical power. In the thermal industry, the steam will expand in a turbine, the energy is transformed into mechanical power, and this in turn into electrical power. In the different processes of the industry, steam is used as a heat source for different applications, such as cleaning, humidification, heating, as a motive fluid, and other minor applications. The primary objective of the reuse of formation water is to optimize the procedures in the oil industry, the reduction of the number of discharges and thus the eco-efficiency in the hydrocarbon industry; whose goal will be to maximize the profits of the field, the production of hydrocarbon and minimize capital investments and operating expenses, for which it will be necessary to apply the highest technology available in the market within the given management environment.