Study the Effect of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles on Reduce Crude Oil

Abstract

In transportation of fluid, the drag reducers in pipeline are important parameters because of drag reduction increased the ability of pump fluid when adding small amounts of additive to fluid. The frictional pressure loss in pipes is waste energy and it very costly so the drag reducing minimizes flow turbulence, reduces the costs of energy and increases throughput. The transportation of reducing crude oil is very difficult and needs some treatment to improve its transportation and this is because of its high viscosity. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of nanoparticles of copper oxide on viscosity of R.C. and other parameters when transport it through pipes. This research investigated the viscosity, pressure drop and other parameters in three pipes (0.0127, 0.01905 and 0.0254 m) I.D. with different concentrations (0.00625, 0.0125, 0.01875, 0.025 and 0.0375 (gm/L) w/v) at 50 oC and the flow rate is 50% of maximum. The results show that the performance of the drag reduction is much better in the larger pipes diameter than the smaller one. Also, the CuO NP's effect on R.C. viscosity and the maximum viscosity deviation is about 4%. In Addition to CuO NP's to R.C. has reduced the %Dr, pressure drop and shear stress.

Applications of drag reducers for the pipeline transportation of heavy crude oils: A critical review and future research directions

“…[159] Different lab-scale experiments demonstrated that the viscosity of heavy oils could be reduced by electric or magnetic treatment and nanoparticles. [114,[160][161][162][163][164][165] An electric or magnetic field tends to aggregate the paraffins or asphaltenes and, thereby, reduce the oil viscosity. The studies on the influence of nanofluids, such as functionalized magnetic TiO 2 , nano photocatalyst, and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine lecithin on DR of turbulent flow showed the DR to be a proportional function of the pipe size.…”