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WAXtracker
Problems
related to crystallization and deposition of paraffin waxes during production
and transport of crude oils have been extensively reported and cost billions
of dollars per year to petroleum companies. Oilfield operation and pipeline
design require the capacity to anticipate the wax deposition potential of an oil,
often from very limited information.
WAXtracker is an user-friendly software that employs a
thermodynamic approach to predict wax formation in live and dead oils and
refined products such as diesels.
Given the interest that
the
WAXtracker model arouse and the repeated requests a fully
working partial version of
WAXtracker is now
freely available for
download.
The zip file contains an executable version of the code
for modelling of low pressure wax formation in fluids, examples of input and
output files and a datafile with properties for a broad range of paraffins and
solvents.
Information about the thermodynamic model behind WAXtracker is given on the
ModellingPhase
Equilibria.pdf file. More information about the model and its
application to crudes, diesels and synthetic mixtures can be found in several
articles available in the
publications
page.
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