Mario H. Gonzalez

Bio: Mario H. Gonzalez is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Viscosity & Inherent viscosity. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 516 citations.

Short Fundamental Equations of State for 20 Industrial Fluids

Abstract: In a preceding project, functional forms for “short” Helmholtz energy equations of state for typical nonpolar and weakly polar fluids and for typical polar fluids were developed using simultaneous optimization. In this work, the coefficients of these short forms for the equations of state have been fitted for the fluids acetone, carbon monoxide, carbonyl sulfide, decane, hydrogen sulfide, 2-methylbutane (isopentane), 2,2-dimethylpropane (neopentane), 2-methylpentane (isohexane), krypton, nitrous oxide, nonane, sulfur dioxide, toluene, xenon, hexafluoroethane (R-116), 1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (R-141b), 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane (R-142b), octafluoropropane (R-218), 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane (R-245fa), and fluoromethane (R-41). The 12 coefficients of the equations of state were fitted to substance specific data sets. The results show that simultaneously optimized functional forms can be applied to other fluids out of the same class of fluids for which they were optimized without significant loss of a...

Predicting the Phase Equilibria of Synthetic Petroleum Fluids with the PPR78 Approach

Abstract: The PPR78 approach is a group contribution-based thermodynamic model which combines at constant packing fraction the Peng–Robinson equation of state and a Van Laar-type gE model. This article demonstrates that, using classical mixing rules (linear on b and quadratic on a), the PPR78 model may also be seen as a group contribution method for the estimation of the temperature-dependent kij of the widely used PR EoS. Our model is endowed of 15 groups and it is possible to predict the kij for any mixture containing alkanes, aromatics, naphthenes, CO2, N2, H2S, and mercaptans. This study exhibits the capability of this approach to predict the phase behavior of synthetic petroleum fluids containing components of different volatilities. The many comparisons between calculated and experimental data on natural gases, crude oils, and gas condensates allow concluding that the PPR78 approach is a successful model for phase equilibria calculations of this kind of mixtures. © 2010 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2010

Development of a New Correlation of Gas Compressibility Factor (Z-Factor) for High Pressure Gas Reservoirs

Abstract: Gas compressibility factor or Z-factor for natural gas system can be determined from Standing-Katz charts using the pseudocritical gas pressure and temperatures. These charts give accurate values for Z-factors. Reservoir simulation softwares need accurate correlations to estimate the values of Z-factor; one of the well-known correlations is Dranchuk and Abou-Kassem (DAK) Correlation. This correlation gives large errors at high gas reservoir pressures, this error could be more than 100%. The error in estimating Z-factor will lead to big error in estimating all the other gas properties such as gas formation volume factor, gas compressibility, and gas in place. In this paper a new accurate Z-factor correlation has been developed using regression for more than 300 data points of measured Z-factor using matlab in addition to other data points at low pressure and temperature from Standing-Katz charts and DAK correlation. Old correlations give good estimation of Z-factor at low gas reservoir pressures below 41.37 MPa (6000 psia), at high pressures the error started to appear. The developed correlation is a function of pseudoreduced pressure and temperature of the gas which makes it simpler than the existing complicated correlations. The new correlation can be used to determine the gas compressibility factor at any pressure range especially for high pressures the error was less than 3% compared to the measured data. The developed correlation is very simple to be used, it just needs the gas specific gravity that can be used to determine the pseudocritical properties of the gas and at last the Z-factor can be determined. A new formula of reduced gas compressibility was developed based on the developed Z-factor correlation which in turn can be used to determine the gas compressibility.