MODELING OF PROCESSES IN CRUDE OIL TREATED WITH LOW-FREQUENCY SOUNDS

Abstract

These days new methods of purification of crude oil from paraffin are being sought to improve the quality of oil, reduce its cost and optimize the processes of technological preparation of oil. The paper describes the method of conducting an experiment to study the impact of low-frequency sounds on oil samples of the Zhanazhol field, and presents the results of experiments, the input parameters of the experiment (exposure time and frequency of infrasound), at which the maximum reduction of the kinematic viscosity of oil is achieved. Further study of processes in crude oil under the influence of low-frequency sounds is planned to be investigated in Comsol Multiphysics®.