Reservoir Evaluation and Development ›› 2019, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (4): 41-46.

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Study on characteristics and behaviors of low temperature oxidation of heavy crude oil

PU Wanfen1,WANG Liangliang1,PENG Xiaoqiang2,REN Hao2,YANG Yang2,ZHAO Shuai1   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
    2. Research Institute of Experimental and Detection, Petrochina Xinjiang Oilfield Company, Karamay, Xinjiang 834000, China
  • Received:2019-04-03 Online:2019-08-26 Published:2019-08-28

Abstract:

The static isothermal oxidation tube experiments were carried out for heavy crude oil in J block of Xinjiang Oilfield. The effects of temperature, pressure, quartz sand and detritus on the low temperature oxidation(LTO) characteristics of heavy crude oil were investigated by analyzing the alterations in the produced gas and SARA(saturate, aromatic, resin and asphaltene) fractions of oxidized oil. The results showed that the awerage oxygen consumption rate of the crude oil was increased by 1.42 % per day at 110 ℃ relative to that at 70 ℃. When the pressure was increased from 10 MPa to 30 MPa, the production of CO+CO2 was increased by 2.13 %. Both quartz sand and detritus promoted oxidation reaction on the heavy oil. The oxygen consumption increased by 1.71 % and 4.08 % after the addition of quartz sand and detritus relative to the crude oil. The promotion of detritus on LTO reactions of heavy crude oil mainly derived from the catalytic effect of detritus. The oxidation behavior of the crude oil was studied by the TG-DSC, and the activation energy was calculated by Arrhenius kinetic model. The results indicated that heavy crude oil had poor reactivity in the LTO stage, and the activation energy in the LTO region was only 18.09 kJ/mol, which was much lower than that in the fuel deposition and high temperature oxidation stages(84.58 kJ/mol and 113.39 kJ/mol).

Key words: heavy crude oil, low temperature oxidation, oxygen consumption rate, oxidation kinetics, activation energy

CLC Number: 

  • TE357