Original scientific paper

Visualization of the crude oil melting process

Tomislav Tomiša ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Power Systems, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA
Igor Kuzle ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Power Systems, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA
Sejid Tešnjak ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Power Systems, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA

Abstract

An experiment in real condition was performed to support the development of a new designed crude oil pumping facility on the tank wagon decanting station. Since the pumping process failed during the previous tests, the visualization of the heating process inside the tank was required to find out the optimized parameters for the improved automatic pumping algorithm. The 32 temperature sensors were installed inside the tank wagon before loading with oil, and connected to the PC based data acquisition system. The measured data collected during the whole heating/pumping process were graphically presented to visualize the time depended 3-dimensional oil temperature distribution inside the tank. Finally, the successful reconstruction of pumping facility was made based on those results.

Keywords

heating process of crude oil, tank wagon, temperature field, data acquisition, process visualization

Hrčak ID:

318801

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/318801

Publication date:

12.12.2001.

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