Abstract
Measurement of size of single (in parts methane-saturated) crude oil droplets in a counter-current flow of artificial seawater while pressure is released from 150 bar to atmospheric pressure.
Purpose
The experiments have been done to investigate the size evolution of single methane-saturated Louisiana Sweet Crude (LSC) oil droplets over time while pressure is decreased according to a drop rise through 1,500 m water column. Outgassing of dissolved methane and its influence on the drop size (normalized by its initial value) and therefore rise behavior is investigated and compared to crude oil droplets that are not gas-saturated.
Keywords
oil droplet behavior, droplet expansion, Louisiana Sweet Crude Oil, droplet pressure
UDI
R4.x267.000:0050
Date
September 2017
Point of Contact
Name
Michael Schlüter
Organization
Technical University of Hamburg / Institute of Multiphase Flows
Funding Source
RFP-4
DOI
10.7266/N79885GB
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 License.
Scholar Commons Citation
Michael Schlüter, Simeon Pesch. 2017. Expansion of Gas-Saturated Crude Oil Droplets. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N79885GB
Comments
Extent
Dataset contains diameter measurements of crude oil droplets, no field sampling involved.
Supplemental Information
Droplet diameter (mm), Droplet diameter ratio, Temperature (°C), Pressure (MPa), Time (min), Experiment number, Decompression rate (bar min-1), Droplet diameter (dp, mm), Droplet growth factor|Photographic image capturing with backlight illumination, evaluation of droplet sizes (equivalent diameter) with the software ImageJ.||||