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Abstract
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Accurate recognition of the fluid phase behaviour is the most important and first step for the preservation and hydrocarbon reservoir management. Among the various hydrocarbon fluids, the lean gas condensate fluids show complex and unique behaviour. Due to the nature of these fluids, errors in the laboratory constant volume depletion (CVD) experimental data are inevitable. In this study, the significance of using CVD data in the EoS tuning process is debated using six samples of lean gas condensate. According to the negative composition in the CVD data material balance of all samples, just data of the constant composition expansion (CCE) experiment, saturation pressure, and liquid density in the stock tank are used for tuning the equation of state (EoS) as fundamental experimental data. The results of this study demonstrate that without using any CVD experimental data in the EoS tuning process, this data can be generated accurately using tuned EoS with fundamental data. Therefore, there is no need to do CVD experiments for lean gas condensate fluids characterization, which leads to reduces not only the error in the simulation process but also the laboratory costs. Furthermore, the tuning strategy in this study demonstrates that molecular weight of plus fraction and the volume shift parameter of the heaviest pseudo-component are the effective parameters to adjust the EoS. The objective function has reduced from 0.7360 to 0.1538 (79.10% improvement) just by using these two parameters. A constrained tuning strategy was proposed to keep the critical properties and acentric factor expected trends versus carbon number. The results show uniform and swing trends in the case of constrained and unconstrained tuning strategies, respectively. Therefore, using a constrained tuning strategy is essential to obtain a fluid with an authentic thermodynamic background after the tuning process. The proposed analysis method of CVD experimental data suggests that gas compressibility fact
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