To maximize production and minimize pumping costs, crude oil is heated to reduce its viscosity during transportation from a production field. (1) Consider a pipe-in-pipe configuration consisting of concentric steel tubes with an intervening insulating material. The inner tube is used to transport warm crude oil through cold ocean water. The inner steel pipe (k, = 35 W/m-K) has an inside diameter of D; 1 = 150 mm and wall thickness t; = 20 mm while the outer steel pipe has an inside diameter of = 250 mm and wall thickness t, = t¡. Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure the polyurethane foam insulation (k, = 0.0425 W/m-K) between the two pipes does not exceed its maximum service = -5°C and provides an external convection heat transfer temperature of T, p, max = 70°C. The ocean water is at T coefficient of h, 500 W/m2-K. The convection coefficient associated with the flowing crude oil is h; = 450 W/m2-K. %3D (2) It is proposed to enhance the performance of the pipe-in-pipe device by replacing a thin (ta = 10 mm) section of polyurethane located at the outside of the inner pipe with an aerogel insulation material (ka = 0.012 W/m-K). Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure maximum polyurethane temperatures are below T. p, max = 70°C.
To maximize production and minimize pumping costs, crude oil is heated to reduce its viscosity during transportation from a production field. (1) Consider a pipe-in-pipe configuration consisting of concentric steel tubes with an intervening insulating material. The inner tube is used to transport warm crude oil through cold ocean water. The inner steel pipe (k, = 35 W/m-K) has an inside diameter of D; 1 = 150 mm and wall thickness t; = 20 mm while the outer steel pipe has an inside diameter of = 250 mm and wall thickness t, = t¡. Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure the polyurethane foam insulation (k, = 0.0425 W/m-K) between the two pipes does not exceed its maximum service = -5°C and provides an external convection heat transfer temperature of T, p, max = 70°C. The ocean water is at T coefficient of h, 500 W/m2-K. The convection coefficient associated with the flowing crude oil is h; = 450 W/m2-K. %3D (2) It is proposed to enhance the performance of the pipe-in-pipe device by replacing a thin (ta = 10 mm) section of polyurethane located at the outside of the inner pipe with an aerogel insulation material (ka = 0.012 W/m-K). Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure maximum polyurethane temperatures are below T. p, max = 70°C.
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Transcribed Image Text:To maximize production and minimize pumping costs, crude oil is heated to reduce its viscosity during transportation
from a production field.
(1) Consider a pipe-in-pipe configuration consisting of concentric steel tubes with an intervening insulating material. The
inner tube is used to transport warm crude oil through cold ocean water. The inner steel pipe (k, = 35 W/m-K) has an
inside diameter of D; 1
= 150 mm and wall thickness t;
= 20 mm while the outer steel pipe has an inside diameter of
= 250 mm and wall thickness to = tj. Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure the
Di,2
= 0.0425 W/m-K) between the two pipes does not exceed its maximum service
= -5°C and provides an external convection heat transfer
polyurethane foam insulation (kp
temperature of T,
р, max
= 70°C. The ocean water is at T
o, 0
coefficient of ho
500 W/m2.K. The convection coefficient associated with the flowing crude oil is h;
= 450 W/m2-K.
(2) It is proposed to enhance the performance of the pipe-in-pipe device by replacing a thin (fa
polyurethane located at the outside of the inner pipe with an aerogel insulation material (ka
= 10 mm) section of
0.012 W/m-K).
Determine the maximum allowable crude oil temperature to ensure maximum polyurethane temperatures are below
T.
р, тax
= 70°C.
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