(45) WAX DEPOSTITION MODEL ANALYSIS
Wax deposition in offshore and onshore pipeline is one of the significant current flow assurance problem. There are several wax deposition models proposed in the literature. However, all of them are validated based on the limited number of data and have not been crosschecked with other researchers’ data. All of wax deposition model on turbulent flow contain the unknown physical parameters which required in wax deposition prediction.
Nevertheless, the closure relationships of the unknown parameters are not provided in most models, and the available correlations require the validations against more experimental data. This work provides the performance analysis of wax deposition models by testing the proposed models (such as Singh et al. (2000)) against the experimental data that are just recently available. The contribution of this work is the understanding in the uncertainty and the limitation in wax deposition model currently available in several commercial software.