摘要：Pipeline blockage caused by hydrates and wax in subsea pipelines is a major hazard for flow assurance in the petroleum industry. When hydrates and wax coexist in a flow system, the plugging risk is more severe. The effects of wax on hydrate formation, agglomeration process, flow properties, and plugging mechanisms were studied in a high-pressure flow loop using water-in-oil (w/o) emulsion systems. The flow properties of the system with the presence of wax were entirely different from those of the system without wax under the same experimental conditions. Three types of plugging were observed in the flow loop: rapid plugging, transition plugging, and gradual plugging. The interaction relationships between wax crystals, water droplets, and hydrate particles and the formation of wax-hydrate aggregates were proposed based on the particle video measurement (PVM) probe observation and the analysis of the fluid viscosity. The mechanisms of different plugging scenarios were presented, which were highly correlated with the temperature and initial flow rate. The presence of wax would impact on the agglomeration process of hydrate particles leading to a catastrophic decrease in the transportation ability and an extremely high plugging risk after hydrate formation in the pipeline.
© 2018 American Chemical Society.

ISSN号：0887-0624

卷、期、页：v 32,n 9,p8986-9000

发表日期：2018-09-20

期刊分区（SCI为中科院分区）：二区

收录情况：SCI（科学引文索引印刷版）,ESI（基本科学指标数据库）,SCIE（科学引文索引网络版）

发表期刊名称：ENERGY & FUELS

通讯作者：柳扬,丁麟,雍宇,张也,马千里,宋尚飞,杨居衡

第一作者：史博会,王玮,宫敬

论文类型：期刊论文

论文概要：柳扬,史博会,丁麟,雍宇,张也,马千里,宋尚飞,杨居衡,王玮,宫敬，Investigation of Hydrate Agglomeration and Plugging Mechanism in Low-Wax-Content Water-in-Oil Emulsion Systems，ENERGY & FUELS，2018，v 32,n 9,p8986-9000

论文题目：Investigation of Hydrate Agglomeration and Plugging Mechanism in Low-Wax-Content Water-in-Oil Emulsion Systems