Separation friendly produced water pump.

This project shall have main experimental focus on oil in water droplet break up in pumps, and the resulting effect on downstream oil/water separation. Next, it shall be focused on how pumps impact produced water injection chemicals, which are used to imp rove reservoir flooding operations. The project is thus well within the core of the Petromaks primary objective of ensuring the optimal management of petroleum resources within an environmentally sustainable framework, and OG 21 strategic goal of energy e fficient and cleaner production. * Theoretical analyses and detailed project planning: Analyses of the results from the pre-project as basis for designing a reliable experimental approach and methodology for testing the new and existing pumps for pumping water containing droplets of oil. * Build test rig: Verify a test arrangement and a methodology suitable to examine the effect of shear in different pumps on the oil droplet break-up in a water stream as well as on separation in a downstream inline sepa rator. * Build small scale model Typhoon Pump: Build a model low shear centrifugal pump on a scale suitable for use in the test rig. The design should enable changing, combining and optimizing important parts to determine the optimal low shear configurat ion. * Tests and analysis: Experiments with different centrifugal pump configurations to establish a preferred and optimal low shear configuration. Comparative testing with state of the art pumps of the same scale, i.e. progressive cavity pumps, lobe pump s. Performance parameters are 1) oil droplet size and 2) oil/water separation, both according to an established methodology and well known procedures. A further and not less important performance parameter is pump efficiency (efficiency factor). In additi on, test results will be combined with specific Malvern analyses to develop pump shear characteristics for all tested pumps. * Build and test a full scale prototype Typhoon Pump.