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Application Of Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (Gagd) Process For Enhancing Recovery From Unconventional Resources, Muzher Al Musabeh Nov 2021

Application Of Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (Gagd) Process For Enhancing Recovery From Unconventional Resources, Muzher Al Musabeh

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The oil recovery with hydraulic fracturing has played an important role in hydrocarbon production and energy support last decade from unconventional resources. Characteristically, the significant production decline and low recovery factors from these reservoirs triggered the need for new EOR techniques to compensate for the decline and help sustain the production. In this study, an experimental investigation of the Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) process in the presence of fractures as EOR process was conducted using Nitrogen (N2) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in Berea Sandstone (BSS) and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS). Core flooding and EOR experiments were used to determine the …


Shale Softening Based On Pore Network And Laboratory Investigations, Di Zhang Aug 2021

Shale Softening Based On Pore Network And Laboratory Investigations, Di Zhang

Dissertations

This dissertation consists of two major parts: Firstly, experimental investigation of four major shale softening mechanisms and quantifications of structural parameters. Secondly, numerical simulations of nano-scale flow behaviors using the previous experiments determined parameters based on modified pore network modeling.

Hydraulic fracturing is widely applied to economical gas production from shale reservoirs. Still, the gradual swelling of the clay micro/nano-pores due to retained fluid from hydraulic fracturing causes a gradual reduction of gas production. Four different gas-bearing shale samples are investigated to quantify the expected shale swelling due to hydraulic fracturing. These shale samples are subject to heated deionized (DI) …


Gas Evolution Phenomenon Of Methane In Base Fluids Of Non-Aqueous Drilling Muds Under Controlled Depressurization, Damilola Ojedeji Jul 2021

Gas Evolution Phenomenon Of Methane In Base Fluids Of Non-Aqueous Drilling Muds Under Controlled Depressurization, Damilola Ojedeji

LSU Master's Theses

As wells become more complex and drilling conditions to reach targets prove even more challenging, being able to detect influx event early and safely handle these influxes has become one of the most important focus areas for improvement in well control safety. The high solubility of formation gas in non-aqueous drilling fluids however makes kick detection and safe handling of kicks more complicated. Recent studies are beginning to incorporate desorption kinetics in well control models to simulate the transient multiphase flow phenomenon associated with gas kicks in non-aqueous drilling fluids to foster safe handling of kicks. However, there is currently …


Impact Of Local Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics On The Distribution Of Liquid Sprayed Into The Bed, Yuan Li Jul 2021

Impact Of Local Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics On The Distribution Of Liquid Sprayed Into The Bed, Yuan Li

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

In Fluid Coking, heavy oil is sprayed into a fluidized bed of hot coke particles that provide heat for the reaction and vaporization of the products, using nozzles located at different radial and axial locations of the reactor. In industrial units, imperfect initial liquid-solid contact results in the formation of wet agglomerates, which have been shown to cause fouling of the stripper sheds.

This thesis aims to reduce agglomerate formation by modifying the bed hydrodynamics in the spray region by adjusting the initial fluidization gas distribution or using a baffle.

Experimental methods were developed to study local gas flow, solids …


Enhanced Oil Recovery In Tight Rocks Using The “Slot-Drill” Completion, Hassan Amer Jul 2021

Enhanced Oil Recovery In Tight Rocks Using The “Slot-Drill” Completion, Hassan Amer

LSU Master's Theses

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is essential in shale/tight formations because primary recovery typically produces less than 10% of the original hydrocarbon in-place (OHIP). This work presents a novel “slot-drill” EOR technology, which involves injecting gas through a horizontal fracture that is cut into the formation near the top of the reservoir (using a tensioned abrasive cutting cable mounted to the drillstring) and producing oil from a second slot-drilled horizontal fracture near the bottom of the reservoir.

The dusty-gas diffusion model was implemented in a compositional simulator to account for the diffusion mechanism expected during the injection of gases in this …


Mitigation Of Fouling And Liquid Losses In A Fluid Coker™: Influence Of Operating Conditions And Internals On Wet-Agglomerates Contribution To Liquid Carry-Under, Yohann Alain François Cochet Jul 2021

Mitigation Of Fouling And Liquid Losses In A Fluid Coker™: Influence Of Operating Conditions And Internals On Wet-Agglomerates Contribution To Liquid Carry-Under, Yohann Alain François Cochet

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

In Fluid Cokers, heavy oil is sprayed into a fluidized bed of hot particles through feed ring nozzles located at different heights. Unreacted or partially reacted feedstock, trapped in wet‑agglomerates, reaches the reactor bottom where it causes fouling or is lost to the system burner. The thesis objective is to determine whether modifying the feed distribution between rings or adding baffles can reduce the amount of liquid reaching the reactor bottom.

A model was developed to predict the amount of liquid reaching the reactor bottom. It integrates models for agglomerate formation and rewetting in spray jets, agglomerate drying through heat …


Blowout - Capping - Fracturing - Relief Well, A Full Cycle Workflow, Youssuf A. Elnoamany May 2021

Blowout - Capping - Fracturing - Relief Well, A Full Cycle Workflow, Youssuf A. Elnoamany

LSU Master's Theses

Broaching is defined as the uncontrolled release of hydrocarbons to ocean seafloor after a loss of subsurface well control event. Failed attempts to cap the offshore wells undergoing worst case discharge may lead to hydraulic fracture initiation and subsequent propagation, leading to renewed release of hydrocarbon to the seafloor. During the capping stack shut-in process, pressure build-up will occur along the wellbore, exposing locations of possible fracture initiation to overpressurized fluid, such as directly below the casing shoe, and critical points along the well casing. Shall there be enough build-up pressure to exceed the minimum horizontal stress in an exposed …


Thermodynamic Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium In Naphtha-Water Mixtures, Sandra Milena Lopez-Zamora May 2021

Thermodynamic Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium In Naphtha-Water Mixtures, Sandra Milena Lopez-Zamora

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Naphtha is used to dilute the froth from bitumen treatment. Naphtha is recovered using a Naphtha Recovery Unit (NRU) and sent back to the froth dilution step. To minimize the environmental and economic impact of the NRU, it is imperative to maximize the naphtha recovery. It is, in this respect, that enhanced NRU Vapour-Liquid-Liquid equilibrium data is a significant value. The prediction of phase equilibria for hydrocarbon/water blends in separators, is a subject of considerable importance for chemical processes. Despite its relevance, there are still pending questions. Among them, is the prediction of the correct number of phases. While a …


Investigative Study Of Microalgal And Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment Systems And Modeling Of The Wafer-Enhanced Electrodeionization Using Supervised Learning, Humeyra Betul Ulusoy Erol May 2021

Investigative Study Of Microalgal And Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment Systems And Modeling Of The Wafer-Enhanced Electrodeionization Using Supervised Learning, Humeyra Betul Ulusoy Erol

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Wastewater has a serious impact on environment and public health due to its high concentration of nutrients and toxic contaminants. Without proper treatment, excess nutrients discharged in wastewater can cause a damage to the ecosystem such as undesirable pH shifts, cyanotoxin production, and low dissolved oxygen concentrations.

Main objectives of this dissertation work were to investigate i) the biofuel potential of P. cruentum when grown in swine wastewater, ii) the influence of four most commonly used ion exchange resins on the system efficiency and selectivity for the removal of sodium, calcium, and magnesium ions, and iii) the modeling of wafer-enhanced …


Economic Feasibility Of Mixed Plastic Waste Pyrolysis Using Twin Reactor System In Northwest Arkansas, Carol Rogers, Patricia Means, Renato Gonzalez, Kaida Sheets, Hayden Townsend May 2021

Economic Feasibility Of Mixed Plastic Waste Pyrolysis Using Twin Reactor System In Northwest Arkansas, Carol Rogers, Patricia Means, Renato Gonzalez, Kaida Sheets, Hayden Townsend

Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Plastic waste generation is increasing at an unsustainable rate while recycling solutions remain stagnant. As a chemical means of recycling, mixed plastic waste pyrolysis can generate synthetic oil appropriate for use as fuel in power generation from plastic waste that otherwise accumulates in landfills. With the scaling of a commercial plastic pyrolysis process in Northwest Arkansas (NWA) modeled after an operational sawdust pyrolysis unit in Huntsville, Arkansas, economic analysis resulted in 26.3% internal rate of return. Therefore, construction of a commercial mixed plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis plant is economically justified and should be pursued. To effectively implement the proposed design, NWA must …


Mitigation Of Fluid Coker Cyclone Fouling With Consideration To Reactor Performance, Andrew J. Heaslip Apr 2021

Mitigation Of Fluid Coker Cyclone Fouling With Consideration To Reactor Performance, Andrew J. Heaslip

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Fluid Coking is a continuous process to thermally upgrade heavy hydrocarbons into lighter, higher-value products. Fouling of the cyclones in commercial Fluid Coker reactors significantly reduces unit runtimes. The main objective of this thesis is to improve unit reliability by identifying process levers that can mitigate against this phenomenon while minimizing reductions in product quality. This thesis expanded a previous freeboard region model to consider vapour phase cracking and adsorption and developed a novel reactor region model to consider the impact of liquid and vapour phase cracking, vapour-liquid equilibrium, and residence time distribution on product composition. By changing the temperature …


Evaluation Of Vertical And Horizontal Wells For Utilization In Carbon Sequestration, Michael R. Bohnet Apr 2021

Evaluation Of Vertical And Horizontal Wells For Utilization In Carbon Sequestration, Michael R. Bohnet

Honors Theses

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A Systematic Multiscale Investigation Of Nanoparticle-Assisted Co2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (Eor) Process For Shale Oil Reservoirs, Dayo A. Afekare Mar 2021

A Systematic Multiscale Investigation Of Nanoparticle-Assisted Co2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (Eor) Process For Shale Oil Reservoirs, Dayo A. Afekare

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Shale oil reservoirs are prolific on the short term due to hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling but experience significant production decline, leading to poor ultimate recovery and leaving billions of barrels of oil buried in the ground. In this study, a systematic multi-scale investigation of an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process using relatively inexpensive silicon dioxide nanoparticles and carbon dioxide for shale oil reservoirs was conducted. Using the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) as a case study, aqueous dispersions of nanosilica in conjunction with CO2 were investigated at nano-to-core scales. At the nanoscale, atomic force microscope was used to investigate …


Experimental And Modeling Study Of The Effects Of Sealing Structures In Lost Circulation Prevention And Remediation, Mingzheng Yang Mar 2021

Experimental And Modeling Study Of The Effects Of Sealing Structures In Lost Circulation Prevention And Remediation, Mingzheng Yang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Drilling fluid lost circulation leads to non-productive time and increases the overall well cost. In general, wellbore strengthening and lost circulation control are achieved by creating effective sealing structures to inhibit fluid flow through loss conduits such as formation fractures. This research aims at better understanding the effects of sealing structures in fluid loss prevention and remediation, and providing useful references to effectively establishing filtercakes on the wellbore and plugs in the fracture.

Recent research on wellbore strengthening disclosed the critical role of filtercake in sealing microfractures during the initial stages of fracture initiation and propagation. The performance of a …


Quality Control Of Chemical Grade Calcium Carbonate From Lopburi Limestone Deposit In Thailand, Pimpichcha Teawpanich Jan 2021

Quality Control Of Chemical Grade Calcium Carbonate From Lopburi Limestone Deposit In Thailand, Pimpichcha Teawpanich

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is naturally produced from calcite, limestone, chalk, and marble. It is being used as raw material in various industries (e.g., cement, plastic, paint, paper, and pharmaceutical industries). The low-grade CaCO3 samples obtained from a calcite plant at Khoktum Sub-district, Muang Lopburi District, Lopburi Province, Thailand were used in this study. These samples contain more than 98% of CaCO3 while Fe2O3 contents are higher than 0.1% and increased after finished the process. Because of this problem, the products could not be sold since lower Fe2O3 contents are required (e.g., ≤0.05% for filler grade and ≤ 0.1% for animal …


Investigation Of Post-Acid Stimulation Impacts On Well Performance Using Fracture Modeling And Reservoir Simulation In A Jurassic Carbonate Reservoir, Muaath Alansari Jan 2021

Investigation Of Post-Acid Stimulation Impacts On Well Performance Using Fracture Modeling And Reservoir Simulation In A Jurassic Carbonate Reservoir, Muaath Alansari

Masters Theses

"Well stimulation (well fracturing) became an essential tool in the Oil and Gas industry to unlock the potential of unconventional reservoirs all over the world and especially in the Middle East. In Kuwait, well stimulation is obligatory when dealing with deep Jurassic carbonate reservoirs. Thus, the well fracture designing process plays a very critical role in determining the success of the stimulation job and the improvement of the recovery.

Several wells stimulated with 20% HCL have shown wide variations in both short and long term well production performance. The research aims to investigate and identify the possible reasons causing these …


Well Performance Analysis Of Mseel1 And Mseel2 Wellpads, Mohammad Faiq Adenan Jan 2021

Well Performance Analysis Of Mseel1 And Mseel2 Wellpads, Mohammad Faiq Adenan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

MSEEL1 and MSEEL2 are wellpads that were developed as a means of conducting research into how a gas well being developed in the Marcellus shale can be optimized from the reservoir identification stage to the completions and operational stage. This thesis provides a report of the workflow performed to use the generated data from different sources and analyze them for optimization.

MIP-3H and Boggess 17H were designated as science wells, for which the majority of the well logging and coring experiments were conducted on. The data obtained from the experiments were used as a basis for petrophysical analysis, the results …


The Impacts Of The Net Stress And Stress Shadow On The Productivity Of Marcellus Shale Horizontal Well, Mohamed El Sgher Jan 2021

The Impacts Of The Net Stress And Stress Shadow On The Productivity Of Marcellus Shale Horizontal Well, Mohamed El Sgher

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Shale gas development has become a crucial part of the global oil and gas industry in recent years, especially in North America. Even though the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques have successfully unlocked considerable reserves of natural gas in shale-gas reservoirs, production rates from unconventional reservoirs decline more rapidly than conventional reservoirs. This is because production from a reservoir results in an increase in net stress due to a reduction in the pore pressure, while overburden pressure remains constant. This leads to the reduction in permeability of both the matrix and the fissures, as well as the …


Application Of Fiber Optics Das On Completion Design Optimization, Aliou Sylla Jan 2021

Application Of Fiber Optics Das On Completion Design Optimization, Aliou Sylla

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Interstage communication during well stimulation reducing the effectivity of the well completion is known to be a concern in the oil and gas industry. The leading cause of this is fracture communication due to the presence of natural fractures where the formation is being hydraulically fractured. In this study, a technique was developed to map natural fractures, on a larger scale, underground to be able to avoid the high fracture intensity zones when hydraulically fracturing. This study developed a technique to optimize well completion designs by introducing the ability of locating natural fractures zones in the formation (Marcellus Shale) which …


Evaluation Of Robust Epoxy Resin Sealants For Wellbore Integrity Applications, Mohammed Mousa M Alkhamis Jan 2021

Evaluation Of Robust Epoxy Resin Sealants For Wellbore Integrity Applications, Mohammed Mousa M Alkhamis

Doctoral Dissertations

"During the drilling and completion phases of oil and gas wells, cement is placed in the wellbore as a barrier between the casing and the formation. All casing strings must be cemented to protect and support the casing, and to isolate production zones. The primary cement must prevent the wellbore fluids from migrating in an annular flow path so as to allow the wells to be utilized without any control problems. The primary cement may fail to deliver full zonal isolation due to several reasons such as insufficient mud removal before the cementing, casing expansion, and contraction, high fluid losses, …


Downhole Water Drainage From A Gas Reservoir For Water Dumpflood In An Underlying Oil Reservoir, Htet Myet Zin Naing Jan 2021

Downhole Water Drainage From A Gas Reservoir For Water Dumpflood In An Underlying Oil Reservoir, Htet Myet Zin Naing

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

For wells drilled in a bottom water-drive gas reservoir, water coning may lead to a considerable amount of water production which diminishes the gas recovery. If the gas reservoir has an oil reservoir underneath, a method called “Downhole Water Drain for Water Dumpflood” (DWDDF) can be performed to drain water from the aquifer underneath the gas reservoir and dump it into the oil reservoir to perform waterflooding. DWDDF technique can help increase gas production from the upper gas reservoir and oil production from the lower reservoir at the same time. In this study, a simple reservoir model having common rock …


Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery By Low Salinity Polymer Flood Combined With Microgel Treatment, Yang Zhao Jan 2021

Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery By Low Salinity Polymer Flood Combined With Microgel Treatment, Yang Zhao

Doctoral Dissertations

“Heavy oil resources account for a large portion of the total oil reserves around the world. The target heavy oil reservoir is located on Alaska’s North Slope (ANS). Advantages of low-salinity HPAM polymer (LSP) over high-salinity polymer (HSP) were demonstrated. LSP could recover more oil with 40% less polymer consumption. No additional oil was recovered by HSP after LSP flood. The first-ever polymer flood pilot on ANS showed remarkable success regarding water cut reduction, oil production increase, delayed breakthrough, and projected oil recovery improvement. Polymer alone was insufficient to achieve satisfactory recovery as the reservoirs were highly heterogeneous. Microgels could …


Analyzing And Measuring Petrophysical Properties Of Marcellus Shale, Yahia Mustafa Yassin Mustafa Jan 2021

Analyzing And Measuring Petrophysical Properties Of Marcellus Shale, Yahia Mustafa Yassin Mustafa

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Unconventional oil and natural gas play a key role in our nation's future. The U.S. has vast reserves of such resources that are commercially viable as a result of advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology. These technologies enable greater access to oil and natural gas in shale formations. Responsible development of America's shale gas resources offers important economic, energy security, and environmental benefits. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling apply the latest technologies and make it commercially viable to recover shale gas and oil.

In order to estimate the original gas-in-place, predict the production rates, and optimize the hydraulic …


Relationships Among Mineralogy, Geochemistry, And Oil And Gas Production In The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Hayley Roxana Beitel Jan 2021

Relationships Among Mineralogy, Geochemistry, And Oil And Gas Production In The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Hayley Roxana Beitel

Masters Theses

"The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) is an unconventional shale reservoir located in southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi. Limited mineralogical and geochemical data for the TMS have been published. The data that do exist indicate that the formation is heterogeneous. Consequently, previous investigators and oil and gas companies have not managed to effectively link mineralogical and chemical changes to oil and gas production in the TMS. These linkages are critical to establish for future exploration efforts. In this study, we attempt to establish these relationships by gathering all existing mineralogical and chemical data in the TMS, including newly acquired data from …


Power Generation From Waste Heat During Oil Production, Subrahmanya Chandra Bhamidipati Jan 2021

Power Generation From Waste Heat During Oil Production, Subrahmanya Chandra Bhamidipati

Masters Theses

"The increase in the world population is causing a significant increase in the global demand for energy. This rise in demand is generally met with the use of fossil fuels. But there is considerable pressure to lessen the release of carbon through the combustion of fossil fuels. One way that the oil and gas industry can provide increased energy without carbon combustion is by extracting the latent heat energy contained in produced oil, gas and water from producing reservoirs, and from water which is cycled through depleted, end-of-life or abandoned reservoirs. Extracting this energy and using it to provide direct …


Analysis Of Refracturing Activities In The Major Shale Plays In The United States, Faisal Shammam Jan 2021

Analysis Of Refracturing Activities In The Major Shale Plays In The United States, Faisal Shammam

Masters Theses

"Refracturing of existing horizontal multistage wells has increased over the past decade in the oil industry. This work aims to investigate all the refracturing operations in the most active shale plays in the united states (Bakken, Niobrara, Marcellus, Permian, Eagle Ford, Barnett, and Haynesville) in terms of completion technique, candidate selection, treatment types, and refracturing production efficiency. To collect the data of the refractured wells, an advanced data analytics approach was applied to separate the refractured wells from 170,000 wells reported in FracFocus, a public chemical registry for hydraulic fracturing in the United States, and combine it with DrillingInfo database, …


Effects Of Clay Minerals On Oil Recovery Mechanism In Low Salinity Waterflooding In Shaly-Sandstone Formation, Tri Yudha Putra Jan 2021

Effects Of Clay Minerals On Oil Recovery Mechanism In Low Salinity Waterflooding In Shaly-Sandstone Formation, Tri Yudha Putra

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Low Salinity Waterflooding (LSWF) is one of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques that are often mentioned nowadays. Several studies showed that injecting low salinity water leads to Multi-component Ion Exchange (MIE) which is one of oil recovery mechanisms provided by this technique. This study was performed to investigate the effects of specific clay mineral in rock and ion in injected water. First, representative clays were analytically tested to ensure their mineral compositions and the selected representative clays were tested by filtration with different water formulations to identify ionic capacities in MIE for each clay. Results obtained from filtration test and …


ไฮโดรทรีตติงของน้ำมันปรุงอาหารใช้แล้วเป็นเชื้อเพลิงชีวภาพบนตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยา Ni-Mo แบบไม่มีตัวรองรับและมีตัวรองรับ, เดชพล แปรงกลาง Jan 2021

ไฮโดรทรีตติงของน้ำมันปรุงอาหารใช้แล้วเป็นเชื้อเพลิงชีวภาพบนตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยา Ni-Mo แบบไม่มีตัวรองรับและมีตัวรองรับ, เดชพล แปรงกลาง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจันนี้มุ่งเน้นการศึกษาไฮโดรทรีตติง (hydrotreating) ของน้ำมันปรุงอาหารใช้แล้วบนตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยาซัลไฟด์ของนิกเกิลโมลิบดินัม (NiMoS2) แบบไม่มีตัวรองรับและมีตัวรองรับเตรียมโดยวิธีการสลายตัวต้วยความร้อน (hydrothermal) ตัวแปรของการศึกษานี้คือ ความเข้มข้นของสารตั้งต้น เวลาและอัตราส่วนอะตอม Ni/(Ni+Mo) ที่มีผลต่อผลได้และการเลือกเกิดอัลเคน จากผลการวิจัยพบว่า ผลิตภัณฑ์หลักที่ได้จากไฮโดรทรีตติงคือสารประกอบนอร์มัลอัลเคน n-C15, n-C16, n-C17 และn-C18 การเพิ่มความเข้มข้นของน้ำมันปรุงอาหารใช้แล้วมีผลทำให้ปฏิกิริยาเกิดไปทางดีคาร์บอกซิเลชันและดีคาร์บอนิลเลชันได้มากกว่าไฮโดรดีออกซีจีเนชัน ตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยาที่มีประสิทธิภาพสูงสุดให้ร้อยละผลได้ของ n-C15-18 คือ 0.2-NiMoS2/γ-Al2O3 ที่เตรียมด้วยวิธีการสลายตัวด้วยความร้อนสำหรับไฮโดรดีออกซิจีเนชัน ภายใต้สภาวะที่เหมาะสม คือที่อุณหภูมิ 300 องศาเซลเซียส ความดันไฮโดรเจนเริ่มต้น 40 บาร์ เวลาของปฏิกิริยา 3 ชั่วโมง ความเข้มข้นของสารตั้งต้นร้อยละ 5 โดยน้ำหนัก อัตราส่วนของตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยาต่อสารตั้งต้นคือ 0.15 (w/w) สำหรับไฮโดรทรีตติงของน้ำมันปาล์มใช้แล้วให้ร้อยละผลได้ของ n-C15-18 คือ ร้อยละ 55.1 โดยมวล (n-C15 = 6.7% n-C16 = 14.5% n-C17 = 11.8% และn-C18 = 22.1%) สำหรับไฮโดรทรีตติงน้ำมันถั่วเหลืองใช้แล้วให้ร้อยละผลได้ของ n-C15-18 คือ ร้อยละ 56.9 โดยมวล (n-C15 = 3.8% n-C16 = 6.7% n-C17 = 17.2% และn-C18 = 29.2%)


การขจัดพอลิไซคลิกแอโรมาติกไฮโดรคาร์บอนในน้ำมันไพโรไลซิสที่ได้จากขยะพลาสติกผ่านกระบวนการไฮโดรจิเนชัน, ปวริศา นาคศรี Jan 2021

การขจัดพอลิไซคลิกแอโรมาติกไฮโดรคาร์บอนในน้ำมันไพโรไลซิสที่ได้จากขยะพลาสติกผ่านกระบวนการไฮโดรจิเนชัน, ปวริศา นาคศรี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

สารประกอบพอลิไซคลิกแอโรมาติกไฮโดรคาร์บอน (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs) เกิดจากปฏิกิริยาไดเอลส์-แอลเดอร์แอโรมาไทเซชัน (Diels- Alder aromatization) ในขั้นตอนการไพโรไลซิสของขยะพลาสติก ทำให้น้ำมันไพโรไลซิสจากขยะพลาสติก (waste plastic pyrolysis oil, WPPO) มีความเป็นพิษต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมในด้านการเกิด PM2.5 และเป็นอันตรายต่อร่างกายของสิ่งมีชีวิต ดังนั้นงานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาผลของตัวแปรต่างๆ เพื่อลดปริมาณ PAHs ใน WPPO ผ่านกระบวนการไฮโดรทรีตเชิงเร่งปฏิกิริยา และศึกษาสมบัติทางกายภาพและความร้อนของ WPPO ก่อนและหลังการกำจัด PAHs ด้วยเครื่องปฏิกรณ์แบบแบตช์โดยใช้ตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยานิกเกิลบนตัวรองรับเอสบีเอ 15 (Ni/SBA-15) และอะลูมินัมเอสบีเอ 15 (Ni/AlSBA-15) ที่อัตราส่วนโดยโมลของซิลิกาต่ออะลูมินัมเป็น 30 และ 50 ที่มีการเติมและไม่เติมกรดเอทิลีนไดอามีนเตตราอาเซติก (EDTA) สำหรับภาวะที่ศึกษาในการไฮโดรจิเนชัน ได้แก่ ระยะเวลาในการทำปฏิกิริยา (1-4 ชั่วโมง) อุณหภูมิ (250-325 องศาเซลเซียส) ความดันไฮโดรเจนเริ่มต้น (20-50 บาร์) และปริมาณตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยา (5-20 %โดยน้ำหนัก) ก่อนทำปฏิกิริยาตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยาถูกรีดักชัน (reduction) แบบเอ็กซ์-ซิทู (ex-situ) ที่ 550 องศาเซลเซียส เป็นเวลา 2 ชั่วโมง พบว่าเมื่อทำปฏิกิริยาไฮโดรทรีตติ้งในเครื่องปฏิกรณ์แบบแบตช์ที่อุณหภูมิ 300 องศาเซลเซียส ภายใต้ความดันไฮโดรเจนเริ่มต้นที่ 40 บาร์ เป็นเวลา 2 ชั่วโมง ตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยา Ni/SBA-15 สามารถลดปริมาณ PAHs ลงได้ถึง 84.6% ขณะที่ตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยาอื่นสามารถลดปริมาณ PAHs ได้น้อยกว่า จึงถูกเลือกมาใช้ในการไฮโดรทรีตติ้งเพื่อหาภาวะที่ดีที่สุด พบว่าภาวะที่ดีที่สุดในการลดปริมาณ PAHS โดยใช้ไฮโดรเจนเริ่มต้นที่ 40 บาร์ 300 องศาเซลเซียส เป็นเวลา 3 ชั่วโมง การใช้ตัวเร่งปฏิกิริยา Ni/SBA-15 สามารถลดปริมาณ PAHs ใน WPPO …