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Article history: This study proposed two new accurate simple explicit numerical methods for calculating the z-Factor and
Received 29 September 2009 viscosity of natural gases. Results of these correlations are compared versus experimental data. Proposed
Accepted 15 May 2010 correlation for z-Factor has 0.402 and 1.366 of Absolute Average Percent Error (AAE%) respectively versus
Standing and Katz chart and experimental data. The output of this correlation can be directly assumed or be
Keywords: used as an initial value of other implicit correlations. In addition, this correlation is valid for gas coefcient of
natural gas
isothermal compressibility (cg) calculations. The new method for viscosity accounts for the presence of
compressibility factor (z-Factor)
viscosity
heptane plus and non-hydrocarbon components. This model was derived from 1260 experimental
correlation measurement of gas viscosity of eleven different mixtures with AAE% of 2.083. This model is simpler and
more efcient than published correlations, and the comparisons indicate superiority of the proposed model
over other methods.
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doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2010.05.008
68 E. Heidaryan et al. / Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 73 (2010) 6772
pV = znRT: 1
VActual
z= 2
VIdeal
Fig. 1. z-Factor, plotted as a function of the pseudoreduced pressure for isotherms data
Standing and Katz have developed a chart (SKC) according to the from (Poettmann and Carppenter, 1952).
theory of corresponding states (Standing and Katz, 1942) for
calculating the z-Factor which is reliable for natural gas and gas
condensate mixture too (Rayes et al., 1992).
two independent variables, the multiple rational regression equation
T
Tr = 3 was correlated with pPr and reciprocal of TPr as follow:
TC
1
p z = f pPr ; 7
pr = 4 TPr
pC
0 1
A5 2 A9 A11
The principle of corresponding states, applies to single component BA1 + A3 lnpPr + T + A7 lnpPr + T 2 + T lnpPr C
B Pr Pr C
gases, but by applying average molar weight (Kay, 1936) it was z = ln B Pr
C:
@ A4 A8 A10 A
extended to gas mixtures. 1 + A2 ln pPr + T + A6 lnpPr + 2 +
2
ln pPr
Pr
TPr TPr
T 8
TPr = n
5
TPC = yi TCi
i=1 For more accuracy two set of tuned coefcients (Table 1) were
introduced for proposed correlation (A1 through A11) which were
p determined by minimizing the sum of squares of the residuals of
pPr = n
6
pPC = yi pCi Eq. (8). These tuned coefcients are changed if more accurate data in
i=1 sensitive region of SKC are available by proposed numerical method.
There are more than twenty correlations available with two 3. Natural gas viscosity
variables for calculating the z-Factor from tting SKC values in non-
cubic EoSs (Londono et al., 2005; Hall and Iglesias-Silva, 2007) or just 3.1. Background
through tting techniques (Papy, 1968; Heidaryan et al., 2010).
However, these correlations are more complex which require initial As most laboratories do not have the required equipment for the
value, complicated and longer computations or have magnitude error. measurements of gas viscosities, the prediction of gas viscosity is
This should be noticed that validation of all of SKC's correlations is for particularly important. Guo et al. (1997) presented two viscosity
pure hydrocarbon mixture with Mwa less than 40 (Standing and Katz, models based on PR-EoS and PT-EoS. They found that their EoS-based
1942; Standing, 1981). For pseudocritical properties of natural gases viscosity model is capable of satisfactorily describing pure component
with specic gravity more than 0.75, instead of average molar weight hydrocarbon viscosity, but poorly predicts the viscosity of hydrocar-
(Kay, 1936) the Sutton's (1985) combination rule should be used. For bon mixtures (Guo et al., 2001). Jeje and Mattar (2006) declared that
non-hydrocarbon impurities, Wichert and Aziz (1972) developed a Lee et al.'s (1966) correlation is the most reliable correlation for
correction correlation for pseudocritical properties. For gas system
with unknown composition there are some accurate correlations for
predicting pseudocritical properties form gas specic gravity such as Table 1
Standing (1981), Elsharkawy et al. (2001), Londono et al. (2005), and Tuned coefcients of Eq. (8).
Sutton (2007). Coefcient Tuned coefcient 0.2 pPr 3 Tuned coefcient 3 b pPr 15
Table 2
Compositions natural gas mixtures collected for developing Eq. (10).
Comp. No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11
N2 0.21 5.2 0.55 0.04 0.67 4.8 1.4 0.3 0.6 15.8
CO2 0.23 0.19 1.7 2.04 3.2 0.64 0.9 1.4
He 0.05 0.03 0.03 0.8
C1 97.8 92.9 91.5 88.22 86.3 80.9 80.7 71.7 95.6 73.5 73.1
C2 0.95 0.94 3.1 5.08 6.8 9.9 8.7 14 3.6 25.7 6.1
C3 0.42 0.48 1.4 2.48 2.4 4.6 2.9 8.3 0.5 0.2 3.4
n-C4 0.23 0.18 0.5 0.58 0.48 1.35 1.7 1.9 0.6
i-C4 0.01 0.67 0.87 0.43 0.76 0.77 0.2
C5 0.09 0.06 0.28 0.41 0.22 0.6 0.13 0.39
C6 0.06 0.06 0.26 0.15 0.1 0.39 0.06 0.09
C+7 0.03 0.08 0.13 0.04 0.11 0.03 0.01
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
0 1
determining the viscosity of natural gases. Londono et al. (2005) by Mwa Mwa 2 3
applying nonparametric regression and multiple regression analyses B
B 1 + B 2 + B3 + B4 + B5 + B 6 C
B T T C
introduced a new procedure for calculating the viscosity of natural = ln B C 10
@ Mwa Mwa 2 Mwa 3 A
gases. Sutton (2007) used the Lucas (1981) low-pressure gas viscosity 1 + B7 + B8 + B9 + B10
T T T
in order to modify Lee et al.'s (1966) correlation. Shokir and Dmour
(2009) used genetic programming based model for nding the
viscosity of pure and hydrocarbon gas mixtures. A practical issue In which is density, g/cm3; is gas viscosity, cp; T is temperature,
pertinent to all density-based gas-viscosity models is that an estimate F and Mwa is apparent molar weight. B1 through B10 (Table 3) are
of gas density must be known. Therefore, the accuracy of viscosity temperature, density and molecular weight independent tuned
calculations is dependent on the accuracy of z-Factor estimation. coefcients. The validity ranges for Eq. (10) can be found in Table 4.
3.2. The new developed natural gas-viscosity correlation 4. Results and discussion
In the present study, a large number of data for a variety of natural Fig. 2 shows the accuracy of Eq. (8) in compression with 4395 data
gases have been used (Lee, 1965; Gonzalez et al., 1970) for developing point of Poettmann and Carppenter's (1952) data in range of
new viscosity correlation. These data contain 1260 viscosity data point 0.2 pPr 15 and 1.2 TPr 3. Fig. 3 shows the Absolute Percent
of eleven different gases. A complete description of the data is Relative Error (AE%) contour plot of z in percent for Eq. (8). Statistical
reported in Table 2. The nonparametric regression algorithm (Xue parameters of Eq. (8) versus Poettmann and Carppenter's (1952) data
et al., 1997) showed that natural gas viscosity is a strong function of for each isotherm are showed in Table 5. Eq. (6) is not recommended
the density, apparent molecular weight and reciprocal of temperature. for predicting of z-Factor when TPr b 1.2, but its value could be used for
The multiple rational regression equation was correlated using , Mwa other implicit methods which are accurate in the vicinity of critical
and reciprocal of T. isotherm. Another parameter that can be calculated through using z-
Factor correlations is gas coefcient of isothermal compressibility (cg)
(Ghedan et al., 1993). As it appears in Fig. 3, Eq. (8) is always valid for
1
= f ; ; Mwa 9 cg calculations in its validity range.
T
1 V
cg = 11
V p T
Table 3
Tuned coefcients of Eq. (10).
B1 1.022872 10+ 00
B2 1.651432 10+ 00
B3 5.757386 10+ 00
B4 7.389282 10 02
B5 8.389065 10 02
B6 2.977476 10 01
B7 1.451318 10+ 00
B8 4.682506 10+ 00
B9 1.918239 10+ 00
B10 9.844968 10 02
Table 4
Validity ranges of Eq. (10).
Fig. 3. Absolute Percent Relative Error contour of z in percent for this study versus 4158
Table 7
point of data (Poettmann and Carppenter, 1952) in range of 0.2 pPr 15 and
Statistical parameters for each z-Factor correlation versus experimental data.
1.2 TPr 3.
Correlation APD% AAE% ERMS r2
Table 6
Compositions of experimental data for checking Eq. (8) and other z-Factor correlations.
Comp. No. 1a No. 2a No. 3a No. 4a No. 5a No. 6b No. 7b No. 8b No. 9b No. 10b No. 11c No. 12c No. 13c No. 14c No. 15c No. 16d No. 17d No. 18d
6. Statistical formulas
!
Percent Relative Error (ER) zCalculated
i zObserved
i
ER = 100
zObserved
i
Fig. 5. AE% of various methods for estimating natural gas viscosity as function of i = 1; 2; 3; ::::; Nd
cumulative frequency. !
jz zObserved
j
Calculated
i i
Absolute Percent Relative AE % = 100
zObserved
i
Error (AE%)
i = 1; 2; 3; ::::; Nd
!
Nd
zCalculated zObserved
i i
i=1 zObserved
i
Average Percent Relative APE% = 100
Nd
Error (APE%) !
jz zObserved
j
Nd Calculated
i i
i=1 zObserved
i
Average Absolute Percent AAE% = 100
Nd
Relative Error (AAE%) v
u Nd
u
u Ei2
t i=1
Root Mean Square ERMS =
Error (ERMS) Nd
Nd 2
zexp exp
1;i z1;mean 1;i z1;mean
zcal cal
i=1
Correlation Coefcient r2 = ! !
Nd 2 Nd 2
zexp
1;i z exp
1;mean z cal zcal
1;i 1;mean
i=1 i=1
Nomenclature
Fig. 6. Accuracy of various methods for estimating natural gas viscosity. A tuning coefcient
B tuning coefcient
the new correlation (Eq. (10)) is more accurate than other methods cg gas coefcient of isothermal compressibility, psi 1
and successfully estimated viscosity of 90% of experimental data. Fig. 6 Mwa apparent molecular weight
shows the accuracy of each viscosity correlations at its validity ranges n number of moles of the gas
in comparison with data (Lee, 1965; Gonzalez et al., 1970) and their Nd number of data points
statistical parameters are showed in Table 8. p pressure, psia
pC critical pressure, psia
5. Conclusion pPC pseudocritical pressure, psia
pr reduced pressure
The simple accurate correlation based on the general gas pPr pseudoreduced pressure
compressibility factor chart (SKC) was obtained for a quick estimation R universal gas constant
of natural gas compressibility factor as a function of reduced pressure T absolute temperature, F
and reduced temperature. The advantage of the proposed correlation TC critical temperature, R
is that it is explicit in z and thus does not require an iterative solution TPC pseudocritical temperature, R
which is demanded by other methods developed from an EoS. The Tr reduced temperature
outcome of this correlation can be directly assumed or be used for TPr pseudoreduced temperature
initial value of other iterative correlations. Results of this correlation V volume, ft3
were compared against experimental data. The proposed correlation z compressibility factor
yi mole fraction of component i
density, g/ml
Table 8 Viscosity, cp
Statistical parameters for each viscosity correlation versus experimental data.
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