Description
Applied Multiphase Flow in Pipes and Flow Assurance - Oil and Gas Production delivers the most recent advancements in multiphase flow technology while remaining easy to read and appropriate for undergraduate and graduate petroleum engineering students. Responding to the need for a more up-to-the-minute resource, this highly anticipated new book represents applications on the fundamentals with new material on heat transfer in production systems, flow assurance, transient multiphase flow in pipes and the TUFFP unified model. The complex computation procedure of mechanistic models is simplified through solution flowcharts and several example problems. Containing over 50 solved example problems and 140 homework problems, this new book will equip engineers with the skills necessary to use the latest steady-state simulators available.
Features & Benefits
- Covers the latest advancements in multiphase flow, heat transfer, and flow assurance for production systems
- Introduces transient multiphase flow and the TUFFP unified model with practical application in mind
- Simplifies complex mechanistic modeling through step-by-step solution flowcharts and worked examples
- Includes over 50 solved problems and 140 homework problems to reinforce learning and problem-solving skills
- Prepares engineers and students to effectively use modern steady-state simulators in oil and gas production
Audience
- Undergraduate and graduate petroleum engineering students studying fluid flow and production
- Production and facilities engineers working with multiphase transport systems
- Flow assurance specialists designing systems for stable and efficient hydrocarbon flow
- Researchers and academics focused on modeling and simulation of multiphase systems
- Engineers using or developing mechanistic and empirical multiphase flow models
About the Authors
Eissa Al-Safran is an associate professor of petroleum engineering and former vice dean for research and academic affairs at the College of Engineering and Petroleum at Kuwait University, and a visiting research professor at the petroleum engineering (PE) department at the University of Tulsa (TU). He is currently a visiting professor at the nuclear science and engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Al-Safran is the founder and director of the Kuwait University Production Research Center and cofounder and associate director of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Production and Drilling research consortium.
James Brill is a professor emeritus of petroleum engineering at TU. He formed the TU Fluid Flow Projects in 1973 and the TU Paraffin Deposition Projects in 1995 to fund experimental research on multiphase flow in pipes and flow-assurance problems. Multiphase-flow experimental data and prediction models developed by Brill and his colleagues and students have played a significant role in offshore and Arctic facilities design.
Details
Type: Softcover
Size: 8.5x11
Pages: 358
Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781613994924
