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Babak Aghel

Babak Aghel

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Energy, Kermanshah University of Technology (KUT), Imam Khomeini Highway, Kermanshah, Iran
Phone: 083-38305000 (1168)

Research

Title
On the viscosity of natural gas
Type
JournalPaper
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Year
2015
Journal FUEL
DOI
Researchers Azad Jarrahian ، Babak Aghel ، Ehsan Heidaryan

Abstract

This study reports new experimental viscosity measurements at high pressure and high temperature for a sour natural gas mixture. The measurements were conducted with a capillary tube viscometer at pressures ranging from 10.3 to 138 MPa and temperatures up to 444 K. The study develops a comprehensive model to predict natural gas viscosity in a wide range of pressures, temperatures and compositions. The arithmetic average of the model’s absolute error was found to be 2.4% compared with experimental data from the literature (containing the experimental data of the current study), which is acceptable for accurate engineering calculations; the absolute error demonstrates that this model is superior to other methods.