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THE STUDY OF TEMPERATURE PROFILE INSIDE WAX DEPOSITION LAYER OF WAXY CRUDE OIL IN PIPELINE
Zhen Tiana,*, Wenbo Jina, Lei Wangb, Zhi Jinc
a
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering College, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610500, China
b
The Second Oil Production Plant of Qinghai Oilfield, Haixi/Qinghai, 817500, China
c
Research Institute of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum(Group) Co, LTD, Xi’an/Shaanxi, 710075, China
* Corresponding Author: E-mail: .
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2014, 5, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.5.5
Abstract
Taking the axial heat conduction of wax deposition layer into account, a two-dimensional heat transfer model of calculating the temperature profile
inside wax deposition layer was deduced and established based on the energy balance equation, the finite difference method was used to solve this
model, and the influence of axial heat conduction on the distribution law of temperature profile inside the wax deposition layer under different
boundary conditions and thickness were discussed. The results showed that: Temperature profile inside wax deposition layer in middle region of
testing pipe section was mainly influenced by axial heat conduction under boundary conditions of constant wall temperature while the region near the
inlet was mainly influenced under boundary conditions of variable wall temperature. With the increasing thickness of wax deposition layer, the
influence of axial heat conduction became more conspicuous. All in all, in laboratory flow loop experiment of wax deposition, although axial heat
conduction had an influence on the temperature profile inside wax deposition layer under different conditions, the influence was small, thus could be
ignored.
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Tian, Z., Jin, W., Wang, L., Jin, Z. (2014). THE STUDY OF TEMPERATURE PROFILE INSIDE WAX DEPOSITION LAYER OF WAXY CRUDE OIL IN PIPELINE.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 5(1), 1–8.