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Numerical Simulation of Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 2820

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xu Sun

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College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, No.18, Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
Interests: numerical simulation of oil and gas storage and transportation; safety engineering of oil and gas storage and transportation; storage and transportation of new energy mediums; fluid–structure interactions
Dr. Xiaoben Liu

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College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, No.18, Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
Interests: numerical simulation of oil and gas storage and transportation; safety engineering of oil and gas storage and transportation
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Dr. Zitao Jiang

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College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, No.18, Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
Interests: numerical simulation of cathodic protection; numerical simulation of stray current interference; corrosion and protection; pipeline integrity management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of computer science and computing techniques, numerical simulation plays an increasingly important role in oil and gas storage and transportation engineering, aiding in the design phase, predicting the service conditions, and assisting during accident analyses. As a form of typical system engineering, oil and gas storage and transportation processes involve many disciplines, such as fluid dynamics, heat transfer, material mechanics, structural dynamics, automatic control, mechanical design, and economic analysis, among others. Therefore, the simulation of these processes requires various numerical techniques such as computational fluid dynamics (CFDs), computational structural dynamics (CSDs), computer-aided design (CAD), and control simulation, as well as their combinations. More recently, artificial intelligence (AI) attained rapid developments, becoming another tool for oil and gas storage and transportation engineering.

This Special Issue on “Numerical Simulation of Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation” seeks high-quality works focusing on the latest advances in numerical techniques and their applications in oil and gas storage and transportation. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Numerical simulation of long-distance crude/product oil pipelines or pipeline networks;
  • Numerical simulation of long-distance natural gas pipelines or pipeline networks;
  • Numerical simulation of gathering and transportation pipelines in oil and natural gas fields;
  • Numerical simulation of oil and gas tank and underground oil and gas storage;
  • Numerical simulation of storage and transportation of new energy media such as hydrogen, methanol, and carbon dioxide;
  • Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the numerical simulation of oil and gas storage and transportation.

Dr. Xu Sun
Dr. Xiaoben Liu
Dr. Zitao Jiang
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • oil and gas pipelines
  • oil and gas tanks
  • oil and gas underground storage
  • numerical simulation
  • artificial intelligence

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The Influence of Parabolic Static Mixers on the Mixing Performance of Heavy Oil Dilution
by Jian Hua, Hong Yuan, Wanquan Deng, Tieqiang Wang, Ebong Nathan Jeremiah and Zekun Yu
Processes 2025, 13(4), 1125; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr13041125 - 9 Apr 2025
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The static mixer is one of the key equipment for dilution transportation of heavy oil. To enhance the mixing performance of heavy oil dilution, a static mixer featuring a parabolic blade has been developed through an innovative redesign of the traditional Kenics blade. [...] Read more.
The static mixer is one of the key equipment for dilution transportation of heavy oil. To enhance the mixing performance of heavy oil dilution, a static mixer featuring a parabolic blade has been developed through an innovative redesign of the traditional Kenics blade. Numerical simulations of the parabolic static mixer were conducted using Fluent 2022 R1 software. The coefficients of concentration variation (COV) and pressure drop (∆P) served as evaluation indexes, and the effects of parabolic focal length (P), torsion angle (α), and length–diameter ratio (Ar) of the mixing blade on mixing performance were thoroughly analyzed. The research indicates that setting the mixing blade parameters to P = 60, α = 180°, and Ar = 1.5 results in improved mixing performance compared to the traditional Kenics static mixer, achieving a COV of 0.036, which signifies nearly complete mixing of heavy oil and light oil. As parabolic P increases, ∆P exhibits a decreasing trend, while the COV begins to show a significant difference at the outlet of the third mixing blade. As α increases, ∆P rises, while the COV decreases. A decrease in Ar causes ∆P to increase sharply. Although heavy oil and light oil can mix rapidly over a short distance, their influence on the final mixing effect is relatively minor. This study offers significant theoretical insights and practical implications for high-efficiency heavy oil dilution transportation technology. Full article
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Finite Element Analysis and Improved Evaluation of Mechanical Response in Large Oil Storage Tanks Subjected to Non-Uniform Foundation Settlement
by Yuanqi Jiao, Yanbing Wang, Jinzhou Li and Xiaoben Liu
Processes 2024, 12(12), 2838; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12122838 - 11 Dec 2024
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This study developed a finite element model to address the issue of non-uniform settlement in large crude oil storage tanks. The model consisted of four key components: the tank foundation, bottom plate, wall plate, and large fillet welds. The Ramberg-Osgood model was used [...] Read more.
This study developed a finite element model to address the issue of non-uniform settlement in large crude oil storage tanks. The model consisted of four key components: the tank foundation, bottom plate, wall plate, and large fillet welds. The Ramberg-Osgood model was used to describe the material’s nonlinearity. Key factors such as the radius-to-thickness ratio, height-to-diameter ratio, harmonic number, and amplitude were evaluated for their impact on the radial deformation of the tank’s top wall. Two numerical models were developed—one accounting for the coupling effect between the foundation and the tank bottom, and the other without it. The differences in radial deformation between these models were analyzed, revealing that deformation was minimally influenced by the radius-to-thickness ratio, but increased with higher height-to-diameter ratios and harmonic amplitudes. At low liquid levels, radial deformation increased with harmonic number, but at high levels, it decreased once the harmonic number exceeded four due to the decoupling of the tank bottom from the foundation. The model considering foundation coupling exhibited less radial deformation compared to the one neglecting it, particularly as the harmonic number and amplitude increased. An improved evaluation method identified a critical range of harmonic amplitudes for a 100,000 m3 tank, within which the coupling effect can be reasonably neglected, allowing deformation to be calculated using the simpler model. Full article
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Experimental and Numerical Simulation Studies on the Synergistic Design of Gas Injection and Extraction Reservoirs of Condensate Gas Reservoir-Based Underground Gas Storage
by Jie Geng, Hu Zhang, Ping Yue, Simin Qu, Mutong Wang and Baoxin Chen
Processes 2024, 12(12), 2668; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12122668 - 26 Nov 2024
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The natural gas industry has developed rapidly in recent years, with gas storage playing an important role in regulating winter and summer gas consumption and ensuring energy security. The Ke7010 sand body is a typical edge water condensate gas reservoir with an oil [...] Read more.
The natural gas industry has developed rapidly in recent years, with gas storage playing an important role in regulating winter and summer gas consumption and ensuring energy security. The Ke7010 sand body is a typical edge water condensate gas reservoir with an oil ring, and the construction of gas storage has been started. In order to clarify the feasibility of synergistic storage building for gas injection and production, the fluid characteristics during the synergistic reservoir building process were investigated through several rounds of drive-by experiments. The results show that the oil-phase flow capacity is improved by increasing the number of oil–water interdrives, and the injection and recovery capacity is improved by increasing the number of oil–gas interdrives; the reservoir capacities of the high-permeability and low-permeability rock samples increase by about 4.84% and 7.26%, respectively, after multiple rounds of driving. Meanwhile, a numerical model of the study area was established to simulate the synergistic storage construction scheme of gas injection and extraction, and the reservoir capacity was increased by 7.02% at the end of the simulation period, which was in line with the experimental results. This study may provide a reference for gas storage construction in the study area. Full article
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