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Carr-Kobayashi-Burrows-GasViscosity.

xls
Description: This spreadsheets calculate gas viscosity with correlation of Carr, Kobayashi,
and Burrows.
Instruction: 1) Select a unit system; 2) Update data in the Input Data section; 3) Review
result in the Solution section.

Input Data: 1 0

Pressure: 4613 psia 65 MPa


Temperature: 180 F 100 C
Gas specific gravity: 0.7 air =1 0.65 air =1
Mole fraction of N2: 0 0.1
Mole fraction of CO2: 0 0.08
Mole fraction of H2S: 0 0.02

Solution:

Pseudocritical pressure = 668 psia 4.54 MPa


Pseudocritical temperature = 389.14 R 255.69 K
Uncorrected gas viscosity at 14.7 psia = 0.011957 cp 1E-05 Pa-s
N2 correction for gas viscosity at 14.7 psia = 0.000000 cp 0 Pa-s
CO2 correction for gas viscosity at 14.7 psia = 0.000000 cp 0 Pa-s
H2S correction for gas viscosity at 14.7 psia = 0.000000 cp 0 Pa-s
Corrected gas viscosity at 14.7 psia (m1) = 0.011957 cp 1E-05 Pa-s
Pseudo-reduced pressure = 6.91 6.91
Pseudo-reduced temperature = 1.64 1.64
ln (mg/m1*Tpr) = 1.238702 1.24
Gas viscosity = 0.025091 cp 3E-05 Pa-s
a0 = -2.462
a1 = 2.97 4613 psia
a2 = -0.2862 180 F
a3 = 0.008054 0.7 air =1
a4 = 2.808 0
a5 = -3.498 0
a6 = 0.3603 0
a7 = -0.01044
a8 = -0.7933
a9 = 1.396
a10 = -0.1491
a11 = 0.00441
a12 = 0.08393
a13 = -0.1864
a14 = 0.02033
a15 = -0.00061

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