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BFC-POD-ROM aided fast thermal scheme determination for China s secondary dong-lin crude pipeline with oils batching transportation.

Identifier
DOI: 10.3390/en11102666
Source
Energies. v. 11, 10, 2666
Author
Contributors
Yuan, Qing., Author
Yu, Bo., Author
Cao, Danfu., Author
Country
Switzerland
City
Basel
Publisher
MDPI AG.
Gregorian
2018-01-01
Language
English
English abstract
Since the transportation task of China's Secondary Dong-Lin crude pipeline has been changed from Shengli oil to both Shengli and Oman oils, its transportation scheme had to be changed to “batch transportation”. To determine the details of batch transportation, large amounts of simulations should be performed, but massive simulation times could be costly (they can take hundreds of days with 10 computers) using the finite volume method (FVM). To reduce the intolerable time consumption, the present paper adopts a “body-fitted coordinate-based proper orthogonal decomposition reduced-order model” (BFC-POD-ROM) to obtain faster simulations. Compared with the FVM, the adopted method reduces the time cost of thermal simulations to 2.2 days from 264 days. Subsequently, the details of batch transportation are determined based on these simulations. The Dong-Lin crude oil pipeline has been safely operating for more than two years using the determined scheme. It is found that the field data are well predicted by the POD reduced-order model with an acceptable error in crude oil engineering.
ISSN
1996-1073
Category
Journal articles