Control-oriented modeling and experimental validation of a deoiling hydrocyclone system

MV Bram, S Jespersen, DS Hansen, Z Yang - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
As the treated water from offshore oil and gas production is discharged to the surrounding
sea, there is an incentive to improve the performance of the offshore produced water …

Application of H Robust Control on a Scaled Offshore Oil and Gas De-Oiling Facility

P Durdevic, Z Yang - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
The offshore de-oiling process is a vital part of current oil recovery, as it separates the
profitable oil from water and ensures that the discharged water contains as little of the …

Predicting the efficiency of the oil removal from surfactant and polymer produced water by using liquid–liquid hydrocyclone: Comparison of prediction abilities between …

KEHK Ishak, MA Ayoub - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present study developed, evaluated and compared the prediction and simulating
efficiency of both, the response surface methodology (RSM) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy …

Plant-Wide Anti-Slug Control for Offshore Oil and Gas Processes

S Pedersen - 2016 - vbn.aau.dk
Abstract In offshore Oil & Gas production processes the undesired severe slug flow regime
can be present. The negative impact of severe slug is crucial to the production rate and …

Grey-Box modeling of an offshore deoiling hydrocyclone system

MV Bram, L Hansen, DS Hansen… - 2017 IEEE Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing water cut from offshore production wells render optimization of the deoiling
process vital for continuous oil and gas production. Hydrocyclones are commonly used as …

Challenges of membrane filtration for produced water treatment in offshore oil & gas production

K Jepsen, L Hansen, C Mai… - OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tremendous amount of produced water are discharged into the sea from offshore oil & gas
installations. Along with every barrel of oil three barrels of water are produced and this is …

Efficiency investigation of an offshore deoiling hydrocyclone using real-time fluorescence-and microscopy-based monitors

DS Hansen, MV Bram, Z Yang - 2017 IEEE Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offshore oil & gas production is facing an increasing challenge as the water fraction from the
production wells rises over time. It is not uncommon that the extracted mixture contains a …

Performance Comparison of Control Strategies for Plant-Wide Produced Water Treatment

L Hansen, MV Bram, S Pedersen, Z Yang - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Offshore produced water treatment (PWT) accounts for cleaning the largest waste stream in
the offshore oil and gas industry. If this separation process is not properly executed, large …

[PDF][PDF] Grey-Box Modeling and Validation of Deoiling Hydrocyclones

MV Bram - 2020 - vbn.aau.dk
The produced oil and gas from offshore installations are transported to onshore facilities for
further processing, while the produced water (PW), which commonly is more than 90% of the …

Performance of liquid–liquid hydrocyclone (LLHC) for treating produced water from surfactant flooding produced water

KEH Ku Ishak, M Abdalla Ayoub - World Journal of Engineering, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of the fabricated liquid–
liquid hydrocyclone (LLHC) with dimensions similar to those of one of the Malaysian oilfields …