PVT and Core Analysis

Laboratory Staff

Prof. Nikolaos Pasadakis
Director | (+30) 2821037669 | npasadakis<at>tuc.gr

Ass. Prof. Andreas Giotis
Teaching Staff | (+30) 2821037621 | agiotis<at>tuc.gr

Eleni Hamilaki
Laboratory Teaching Staff | (+30) 2821037691 | echamilaki<at>tuc.gr
Chemist

Dr. Eleutheria Antoniou
Laboratory Teaching Staff | (+30) 2821037692 | eantoniou<at>tuc.gr
Chemical Engineer, MSc, PhD.

Laboratory Objective

• Phase equilibria and thermodynamic behaviour (PVT) studies of mixture of multiphase fluids at high pressures and temperatures.
• Compositional analysis and characterization of gas and liquid petroleum samples.
• PVT properties simulation models based on EOS and ANN
• Experimental determination of gas hydrate phase equilibrium at three (V-L-H) and two (L-H) phase region at high pressures.
• Experimental study of gas hydrate equilibrium inside porous media of berea sandstone cores and clayish sediments at high pressures.
• Compressibility study of clay sediments which contain gas hydrates at high pore pressures.
• Experimental determination of GH formation curve of gas azeotrope mixtures.
• Reservoir Core analysis studies.
• Measurements of Physical properties of Petroleum and its Fractions.
• Phase equilibria simulation of hydrocarbon mixtures
• Catalytic processing of hydrocarbon mixtures
• Asphaltenes deposition studies.

Infrastructure

• Equipment for evaluating phase equilibria and thermodynamic behaviour (PVT) of multiphasic mixtures at high pressures and temperatures, including a dual visual cell installed in a thermostatically controlled airbath
• Slim tube equipment for determing the minimum miscibility pressure of multiphasic mixtures at high pressures and temperatures.
• Isco syringe pump model 500D, max working pressure 260bar
• Isco syringe pump model 260D, max working pressure 530bar
• A high pressure multi-port core holder, biaxial loading.
• Autoclave reactor model Parr 4565M equipped with magnetic stirrer
• Gas booster model Haskel AGT 62/152H, max working pressure 1720bar
• Gas Chromatographs-Mass Spectrometers (GC-MS) Fisson MD-800 and Agilent Technologies CG 7890Α / inert XL MSD 5975C.
• Gas Chromatographs (GC), HP5890 and Perkin-Elmer-8700
• Purge & Trap device for sample injection in GC ή GC-MS
• Pyrolysis gas chromatography unit (Py-GC)
• Thermal desorption device for sample injection GC ή GC-MS
• Liquid Chromatograph (ΗPLC) Waters 600, equiped with photodiode array detector Waters 996, differential refractometer detector Waters 410, evaporating light scattering detector PL-ELS 1000 and infrared detector FOXBORO.
• Infrared Spectrometer (FT-IR) Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 1000.
• Rock-Eval II pyrolysis system, DELSI Instruments RE 1000, for the characterization of organic matter in rocks and soils.
• Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) and Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), for the extraction of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons from water and soil samples.
• Organic Elemental Analyzer FLASH 2000 Series - CHNS/O, for the determination of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur / oxygen concentration of organic mixtures.

Research and Development Projects