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Dongxi Liu, Xiaoying Wang and Yujiao Chen
In this work, in order to elucidate the three-dimensional (3D) resonant sloshing dynamics of the oil?water interface in an offshore cylindrical wet storage tank, a series of model experiments are conducted in a completely filled cylindrical tank containi...
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Jianxin Hu, Ke Li, Wenfeng Su and Xinyi Zhao
Centrifugal pumps are widely used in the oil and mining industries. In contrast to water pumps, the centrifugal pumps in the oil and mining industries are used for the transportation of drilling fluid, which is typically non-Newtonian fluid. Drilling flu...
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Jacqueline Michel and Philip Bambach
Based on past spills, the conditions under which floating oil mixes with enough sand to form sunken oil mats (SOMs) are identified. SOMs form mostly during spills of heavy crudes or heavy fuel oils, but also highly weathered and viscous crude oils. They ...
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Ivan Gospic, Ivana Martic, Nastia Degiuli and Andrea Farkas
One of the short-term operational measures for fuel savings and reducing CO2 emissions from ships at sea is sailing at reduced speed, i.e., slow steaming, while the gasification of the ship represents an important mid-term technical measure. In this stud...
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Yongqiang Tian, Shuo Liu, Jingchang Long, Wei Chen and Jianxing Leng
The deep-sea environment has the characteristics of high pressure and low temperature. In addition to the extremely high requirements on the structural reliability, the ultra-high ambient pressure also has a great impact on the working characteristics of...
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Charalampos Konstantinou and Giovanna Biscontin
Fluid injection in a porous medium is the underlying mechanism for many applications in the fields of groundwater hydraulics, hydrology and hydrogeology, and geo-environmental engineering and in the oil and gas industry. Fluid flow experiments in porous ...
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Banabas Dogah, Vahid Atashbari, Mohabbat Ahmadi and Brent Sheets
Alaska holds more than 68 billion barrels of proved oil reserves and more than 36.7 trillion cubic feet of proved natural gas reserves with some special conditions such as proximity to permafrost, making Alaskan petroleum reserves unique. The low tempera...
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Meng Guo, Cheng Liu, Qingdong Yan, Zhifang Ke, Wei Wei and Juan Li
Hydraulic torque converter is widely used in transmission units as it is able to provide variable speed and torque ratio, isolate vibration, and absorb shock. The pursuit of a highly packed power unit requires a high capacity/speed torque converter, cons...
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Young Woo Lee, Hye Seung Lee, Moon Sik Jeong, Jinhyung Cho and Kun Sang Lee
Dimethyl ether (DME) is a compound first introduced by Shell as a chemical solvent for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This study aims to investigate the efficiency of EOR using the minimum miscible pressure (MMP) and viscous gravity number when a mixed sol...
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Martin Dobrovolný, Vladimír Habán, Jana Tancjurová and Jan Zbavitel
The limited functionality of seals that are used in hydraulic machines to prevent the liquid from leaking into the bearings may result in decrease in machine efficiency and reliability and may cause an accident of the whole hydraulic machine. However, no...
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