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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| author | Shuard, Adrian Mark |
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-661302018-04-11T05:43:23Z An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines Shuard, Adrian Mark 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. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66130 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Shuard, Adrian Mark An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title | An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title_full | An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title_fullStr | An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title_short | An Optimisation Framework to Reduce the Risk of Hydrate Blockages in Flowlines |
| title_sort | optimisation framework to reduce the risk of hydrate blockages in flowlines |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66130 |