Enabling Technology Development for Hydrocarbon Resource Production, Transport and Refining

促进碳氢化合物资源生产、运输和精炼的技术开发

• 批准号: RGPIN-2014-03787
• 负责人: Shaw, John
• 金额: $ 4.15万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=664923
• 关键词: Enabling; Technology; Development; Hydrocarbon; Resource

Development of enabling technologies for hydrocarbon production, transport and refining is a broad topic. The focus of this proposal and our NSERC-RG funded research more broadly is the incubation of novel ideas and concepts that find application in process design and process simulation software used primarily by chemical and mechanical engineers. Our goals are to provide key inputs for or to provide computational tools themselves that permit calculations to be performed where it has not been possible to perform them previously, and to improve upon current calculation methods which are prone to failure. Some of the projects pursued are purely mathematical, others are purely experimental, others still are a combination of the two. Our targeted applications concern the production, transport and refining of heavy oils and bitumen - strategic energy resources for Canada and the world in general - but we have observed that the results obtained are broadly applicable. The projects funded under this rubric, if successful and appropriate, are also elaborated within the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Petroleum Thermodynamics research program that has a specific mandate within the hydrocarbon energy sector. Our most recent relevant success is the work of Vasek Lastovka (PhD 2012) and Nafiseh Dadgostar (PhD 2013) developed a generalized similarity concept that permitted for the first time the integrated prediction of isobaric heat capacities for solids, liquids and ideal gases for hydrocarbon based compounds and mixtures with compositions known on a molecular basis or comprising ill-defined constituents, with equal ease and precision. The resulting correlations have been transferred to industry, and have been included in recent versions of chemical process simulators used for chemical process design and development. While the approach targeted heavy oil and bitumen applications as a lead application, it has also been adopted by the bio-fuels, product/materials design and pharmaceutics communities. **Two topics, that we expect to be equally successful, are elaborated in this proposal: the development of phase behaviour and,*rheological models, for nano structured fluids based on the behaviour of networks of gold and silica based nanoparticles to which diverse organic ligands are attached. Computed and measured IR and RAMAN spectra where inter and intra molecular effects are discriminated, will be used to identify the nature and strength of inter particle (inter ligand) association, in relation to shear rheology measurements. Phase diagrams resulting from depletion flocculation and other nanoscopic phenomena will be explored using a custom view cell equipped with acoustic acoustic array telemetry. **While our focus is the elucidation of such phenomena in hydrocarbon energy sector, nanofluidic dispersions comprise an emerging area. The initial results and their impacts are expected to arise in diverse industries and for applications where liquid feeds intermediates or products may include nano-particulates. Examples range from heat transfer fluids, contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging. Applications within the hydrocarbon resource industry, an industry of strategic importance to Canada, where crude oils, bitumen, their partially processed products, and waste water from mined oilsands operations all include nanostructured or nano-particulate constituents are expected to arise later.

开发碳氢化合物生产、运输和提炼的赋能技术是一个广泛的议题。该提案和我们的NSERC-RG资助的研究的重点更广泛地是新的想法和概念的孵化，这些想法和概念主要应用于化学和机械工程师使用的工艺设计和工艺模拟软件。我们的目标是提供关键的输入或提供计算工具，允许在以前不可能执行的地方执行计算，并改进当前容易失败的计算方法。有些项目是纯数学的，有些是纯实验的，还有一些是两者的结合。我们的目标应用涉及重油和沥青的生产，运输和精炼-加拿大和世界的战略能源-但我们观察到，所获得的结果是广泛适用的。在此标题下资助的项目，如果成功和适当，也在NSERC石油热力学研究计划中的工业研究主席中详细说明，该计划在碳氢化合物能源部门具有特定的任务。我们最近的相关成功是Vasek Lastovka（PhD 2012）和Nafiseh Dadgostar（PhD 2013）的工作，他们开发了一种广义相似性概念，首次允许对固体，液体和理想气体的等压热容进行综合预测，用于烃类化合物和混合物，其组成在分子基础上已知或包含不明确的成分，具有同等的容易性和精度。由此产生的相关性已被转移到工业，并已包括在最近版本的化学过程模拟器用于化学过程设计和开发。虽然该方法将重油和沥青应用作为主要应用，但生物燃料、产品/材料设计和制药界也采用了该方法。** 两个主题，我们预计将同样成功，在这个建议中详细阐述：相行为的发展，* 流变模型，纳米结构的流体的基础上的网络的行为的金和二氧化硅为基础的纳米粒子，其中不同的有机配体连接。计算和测量的IR和拉曼光谱，其中内部和内部分子的影响是有区别的，将被用来确定的性质和强度的粒子间（间配体）协会，在剪切流变学测量。相图耗尽絮凝和其他纳米级现象产生的将使用一个定制的视图细胞配备声学声学阵列遥测探索。** 虽然我们的重点是阐明碳氢化合物能源领域的这种现象，但纳米流体分散体是一个新兴领域。初步结果及其影响预计将出现在不同的行业和应用中，液体饲料中间体或产品可能包括纳米颗粒。示例范围从传热流体、磁共振成像中的造影剂。在碳氢化合物资源行业中的应用，对加拿大具有战略重要性的行业，其中原油，沥青，其部分加工产品和开采油砂作业的废水都包含纳米结构或纳米颗粒成分，预计稍后会出现。