Caracterização de amostras de petróleo e modelagem termodinâmica

Abstract

The aim of this work was to analyze the thermodynamic properties of petroleum samples in order to develop a computational methodology to determine the composition and critical properties of the pseudo-components present in the fractions of the analyzed samples. of gas condensate (CG) and light petroleum fraction (FPL). The density was measured using pycnometry. For this purpose, a thermostatic heating mantle and a thermometer were used to monitor the temperature. The distilled fractions were collected after passing through a condenser (20 °C), the boiling temperature and density being also recorded by pycnometry. Thus, it was possible to calculate the molecular mass using the Riazi-Daubert correlation as well as the temperature and critical pressure using the Lee-Kesler correlations and the acentric factor from the Edmister correlation of each pseudo-component. For the validation of the characterization, bubble pressure experiments were performed with the sample in an equilibrium cell in which it is possible to apply the visual method and the expansion chamber, under specific conditions of molar concentration (20 – 60 % of sample) and temperature (30 - 120 °C). The results obtained were compared with those simulated by SPECS v5.63 software. For the systems involving CO2-CG, the calculated errors averaged were 4,5, 4,8 and 3,7 %, respectively for SRK, PR and ALS equations, while for CO2- FPL values were, on average, 7,5, 4,6 and 2,6 %, respectively, for the same state equations. It can be concluded that the present work had the objectives reached and that the methodology used had a satisfactory performance to describe the studied sample, being able to be applied to different petroleum samples for characterization purposes