Acoustic determination of the heavy oil thermophysical properties: Thermodynamic consistency revisited

作者：Fazelabdolabadi Babak^*; Bahramian Alireza

来源：Fuel, 2012, 102: 49-53.

DOI：10.1016/j.fuel.2012.06.106

• Heavy oil
• Acoustic data
• Initial Value Integration
• Thermo-physical properties

We employed an Initial Value approach, so as to integrate the compressional wave propagation velocity data, to determine the thermo-physical properties of heavy oil samples. We present our results for several thermo-physical characteristics of the heavy oil, including isothermal compressibility, thermal expansivity, isobaric heat capacity, and the Joule-Thomson coefficient, for the temperatures between 283.15 K and 373.15 K and pressures up to 20 MPa. The acoustically-determined heavy oil densities exhibited outstanding accuracy within 0.4% of the experimental counterparts. Owing to the nature of the integration methodology applied, derived from the fundamental thermodynamic relations, reasonably accurate results should be expected as for the average thermo-physical properties established for the heavy oil mixtures.

• 出版日期2012-12