PetE 668
Flow Assurance
Description
Overview of flow assurance in oil and natural gas flowlines and pipelines. Fundamentals of surfaces and dispersions, nucleation and crystal growth, multiphase flows. Introduction to fast-forming and slowly-forming flow assurance risk factors; gas hydrates, demulsification, dehydration, wax deposition, asphaltene precipitation, scale formation, sand erosion, pipeline corrosion, sensing and mitigation strategies.Learning Outcomes
Name and describe fast- and slowly- forming flow assurance risk factors in oil and gas pipelinesArticulate the roles of various types of dispersions that impact the range of flow assurance risk factors in different ways
Contrast different modes of nucleation and crystal growth of undesirable phases
Articulate various flow patterns and flow pattern transitions in two-phase flows of liquid and gas and two-phase flows of condensed phases, instabilities that lead to said flow pattern transitions, and modes of accumulation of one phase over the other
Name and describe the contemporary prevention strategies of each major flow assurance risk factor and articulate the compatibility issues involved
Name and describe the contemporary remediation strategies
| Lecture | Seminar | Lab | Credits | Total AU |
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| 3 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 3 | 37.8 |
| M % | NS % | CS % | ES % | ED % |
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Undergraduate Program(s)
Sections & Respective Instructors
| B1 - 2025/2026 - Winter - Nobuo Maeda |
| B1 - 2024/2025 - Winter - Nobuo Maeda |