An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines
This dissertation explores the possibility that Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) may be used in conjunction with common meta-heuristic optimisation techniques as a tool to assess the risk of hydrate blockage during restart operations in gas-dominated flowlines featuring accumulated water zones, wi...
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Curtin University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66130 |
| Summary: | This dissertation explores the possibility that Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) may be used in conjunction with common meta-heuristic optimisation techniques as a tool to assess the risk of hydrate blockage during restart operations in gas-dominated flowlines featuring accumulated water zones, without the usage of chemical inhibition and thermal control. The results show that a simulation-based optimisation framework can be used to provide a flowline operator with an operational window for hydrate blockage-free restarts. |
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