Because crude oil is frequently produced with water from the reservoir, emulsification — the mixing of two immiscible liquids – is unavoidable in the oil business. Emulsions have a number of negative effects on the industry, including affecting flow regimes and flow behaviour, lowering crude oil quality, requiring longer retention time in separation vessels, corroding the transport system, and contaminating catalyst used in the refining process, all of which result in significant economic losses. As a result, it is critical to evaluate the creation of emulsions as well as the flow behaviour in the pipeline in order to offer the best approach for controlling the influence of emulsions. It's worth noting that the creation of emulsions via flow shear utilising a lab-scale flow apparatus has received less attention. This leads to the study's goals: first, to characterise the formation of water-in-crude-oil (W/O) emulsions formed by pipeline constriction; second, to investigate the effects of W/O emulsions on pipeline flow transport; and third, to investigate the role of turbulent energy in emulsion formation and flow transport in the pipeline system. This research enables the oil industry to develop a more effective strategy for dealing with emulsification in pipeline transportation systems. In the industry, ideal conditions are produced by combining Reynolds number and pipeline constriction types in order to obtain the lowest wall shear stress and hence reduce energy losses during oil transportation through the pipeline.
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Sharul Sham Dol
Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates.
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