TY - GEN
T1 - Stand Alone Thermal Heating System for Crude Oil Pumping Stations
AU - Al-Mahmoodi, M.
AU - Al-Janabi, A.
AU - Al-Obaidani, S.
AU - Al-Rawahi, N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Modern petroleum reserves consist of heavy and extra-heavy crude oils characterized by high viscosity and low API gravity, significantly impacting pipeline transportation and increasing pressure drop and pumping power requirements. This study focuses on developing a sustainable thermal heating system to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude oils by integrating solar energy with the phase change material. A pilot heating station, having two operating modes, was designed to maintain crude oil within the operating viscosity limit of less than 400 cp. For mode 1, the results demonstrated that from dawn until late afternoon, the abundant solar energy, captured effectively by the solar collector (FPSC), was sufficient to raise the oil temperature to 54.32 ℃ or higher, maintaining it below the critical threshold of 400 cP. In mode 2, the phase change material RT44HC was employed to ensure the system’s sustainability from the late evening to the early morning hours. It was found that the absorbed solar heat by the PCM was insufficient to increase the crude oil temperature to the desired level. To address this challenge effectively, the FPSC integrated into this mode. The system ensured efficient and sustainable heavy crude oil transportation management, leveraging the peak solar energy periods to maintain oil viscosity within optimal transportation parameters.
AB - Modern petroleum reserves consist of heavy and extra-heavy crude oils characterized by high viscosity and low API gravity, significantly impacting pipeline transportation and increasing pressure drop and pumping power requirements. This study focuses on developing a sustainable thermal heating system to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude oils by integrating solar energy with the phase change material. A pilot heating station, having two operating modes, was designed to maintain crude oil within the operating viscosity limit of less than 400 cp. For mode 1, the results demonstrated that from dawn until late afternoon, the abundant solar energy, captured effectively by the solar collector (FPSC), was sufficient to raise the oil temperature to 54.32 ℃ or higher, maintaining it below the critical threshold of 400 cP. In mode 2, the phase change material RT44HC was employed to ensure the system’s sustainability from the late evening to the early morning hours. It was found that the absorbed solar heat by the PCM was insufficient to increase the crude oil temperature to the desired level. To address this challenge effectively, the FPSC integrated into this mode. The system ensured efficient and sustainable heavy crude oil transportation management, leveraging the peak solar energy periods to maintain oil viscosity within optimal transportation parameters.
KW - Heavy Crude Oil
KW - Phase Change Materials
KW - Solar Energy
KW - Sustainable Technologies
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-8348-9_27
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-8348-9_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85209551669
SN - 9789819783472
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 220
EP - 227
BT - Proceedings of the ICSDI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability
A2 - Mansour, Yasser
A2 - Abdelhadi, Abdelhakim
A2 - Subramaniam, Umashankar
A2 - Mustaffa, Zahiraniza
A2 - Al-Atroush, Mohamed
A2 - Abowardah, Eman
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainability: Developments and Innovations, ICSDI 2024
Y2 - 18 February 2024 through 22 February 2024
ER -