Selection of optimal modes of obtaining broad fractions of light hydrocarbons from oil-associated gas at oil production sitesстатья
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Аннотация:AbstractDecreasing pollution and increasing oil fields profitability are keygoals of the proper extraction of hydrocarbons from oil-associatedgas (OAG). Despite the potential of a proper OAG utilization, oilcompanies often struggle with an increase in the overall gas costand possible unprofitability of its treatment though conventionalmethods (Igitkhanyan et al., 2014). These cost-related issues havebeen mentioned before by authors like Braginskii and Chernavskiito(2011) and Arutyunov et al. (2017). This paper introduces a novelmethod for OAG separation and the subsequent obtention of theBroad Fraction of Light Hydrocarbons (BFLH) that relies oncompression followed by the cooling. The proposal is implementedon a mobile laboratory unit developed to define power expendituresand optimize the modes of obtaining broad fractions ofhydrocarbons from OAG at oil fields with low gas factor andcaloricity due to high nitrogen content. The experiments of thepaper contributed validating the proposed method and the mobileunit, and this, among others, by determining optimal modes for theobtention of the BFLH from AOG with different initialcompositions of hydrocarbons components and harmful admixtures,and also by determining concrete values for the dependence of theOAG compression pressure on temperature.