title: An induction reactor for studying crude-oil oxidation relevant to in situ combustion.
abstract: In a conventional ramped temperature oxidation kinetics cell experiment, an electrical furnace is used to ramp temperature at a prescribed rate. Thus, the heating rate of a kinetics cell experiment is limited by furnace performance to heating rates of about 0.5-3 °C/min. A new reactor has been designed to overcome this limit. It uses an induction heating method to ramp temperature. Induction heating is fast and easily controlled. The new reactor covers heating rates from 1 to 30 °C/min. This is the first time that the oxidation profiles of a crude oil are available over such a wide range of heating rate. The results from an induction reactor and a conventional kinetics cell at roughly 2 °C/min are compared to illustrate consistency between the two reactors. The results at low heating rate are the same as the conventional kinetics cell. As presented in the paper, the new reactor couples well with the isoconversional method for interpretation of reaction kinetics.
authors.affiliation: Energy Resources Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4007, USA.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bazargan
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lapene
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Louis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Castanier
authors.forename: Anthony R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kovscek