Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Mohammed Alaskar

Dmitry Kosynkin

Systems, apparatuses, and computer-implemented methods are provided for the real-time quantification of crude oil in an effluent from coreflooding apparatus. Disclosed here is a method of determining the amount of crude oil in an effluent from a coreflooding apparatus by blending the effluent stream with a solvent stream in a mixing device to produce a mixed stream, supplying the mixed stream to an in-line phase separator to produce a first stream containing the solvent and the crude oil from the effluent stream and a second stream containing water and water-miscible components from the effluent stream; and passing the first stream to a continuous flow spectrophotometer to determine the amount of crude oil in the effluent stream.

Systems and methods for real-time spectrophotometric quantification of crude oil

Systems, apparatuses, and computer-implemented methods are provided for the real-time quantification of crude oil in an effluent from coreflooding apparatus. Disclosed here is a system for real-time quantification of crude oil in an effluent from a coreflooding apparatus. The system includes a coreflooding apparatus, a mixing apparatus in fluid communication with the coreflooding apparatus via an effluent line and with a solvent delivery unit via a solvent line, an in-line phase separator in fluid communication with the mixing apparatus via a mixed stream delivery line, a continuous flow analyzer in fluid communication with the phase separator via an oil-phase line and configured to receive a stream containing the solvent and crude oil via an oil-phase line and to transmit a plurality of absorption values to a data analysis engine, and the data analysis engine.

Systems, apparatuses, and computer-implemented methods are provided for the real-time quantification of crude oil in an effluent from coreflooding apparatus. Disclosed here is a method of determining the amount of crude oil in an effluent from a coreflooding apparatus by blending the effluent stream with a solvent stream in a mixing device to produce a mixed stream, supplying the mixed stream to an in-line phase separator to produce a first stream containing the solvent and the crude oil from the effluent stream and a second stream containing water and water-miscible components from the effluent stream; and passing the first stream to a continuous flow analyzer to determine the amount of crude oil in the effluent stream.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Alaskar