학술논문
Control Structure Design for Crude Oil Quality Improvement in a Dehydration and Desalting Process.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*DESALTING of petroleum
*DEHYDRATION reactions
*OIL fields
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ISSN
2193-567X
Abstract
Oil fields around the world produce petroleum that is often accompanied by significant amounts of water and salt. Therefore, to avoid operational problems, dehydration/desalting plants are installed in crude oil production units to remove water-soluble salts from an oil stream. In this paper, a well-designed dehydration/desalting plant of crude oil is modeled and simulated in dynamic mode using Aspen HYSYS®. Furthermore, control strategies are implemented to maintain international standard quality values in the resulting crude oil. Finally, the behavior of the system under typical and proposed control structures is compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]