Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

304465 (v.2) Hydrocarbon Phase Behaviour 706


Area:

Department of Petroleum Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

40.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Tutorial:

1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Thermodynamic fundamentals, petroleum reservoir fluids, cubic equations of state, C7+ characterisation and lumping, viscosity measurements, sampling, P/T flash calculations, prediction of transport properties, PVT experiments, regression to experimental PVT data, evaluation of PVT reports, field experience, compositional variations due to gravity, phase equilibrium calculations for aqueous mixtures, gas hydrate phase equilibria and kinetics.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

030100 Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

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