Determinação experimental e modelagem termodinâmica do equilíbrio de fases em sistemas com CO2, n-hexano, n-hexadecano e tetralina

Abstract

The discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer enables the generation of earnings in relation to the energy dependence of the country, but also large economic and technological challenges. Extraction costs are higher due to various factors such as the demand for mining equipment capable of withstanding high pressures, high temperatures and high concentrations of acid gases, as such, carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). A major concern with CO2 is to avoid releasing it into the atmosphere during production. With the thermodynamic equilibrium modeling systems involving data supercritical CO2 and hydrocarbon is possible to design equipment used in separation processes. The main motivation is the data collection phase equilibrium compounds CO2 systems and hydrocarbons, thus enabling predict the behavior of these mixtures. The specific objectives are to assess the experimental procedure, the estimation and prediction of binary interaction parameters so as to predict the behavior of phases of ternary systems involving CO2 and hydrocarbons. Two methodologies were used to obtain the equilibrium data: synthetic static method (visual) and analytical dynamic method (recycling phase). The systems were evaluated: CO2 + n-hexane, CO2 + tetralin, CO2 + n-hexadecane, CO2 + n-hexane + tetralin, and CO2 + tetralin + n-hexadecane at high pressure; tetralin + n-hexadecane at low pressure. For the treatment of the data was used cubic equation of state of Peng-Robinson and the classical mixing rule