ENGINEERING PROJECT TOPIC PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 1. ASSESSMENT OF HEAT INDEX AND THERMAL COMFORT IN MINI CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Thermal comfort is often related to the condition of an individual’s mind which expresses satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the thermal environment. Man has, for the most part, strived to create thermally comfortable environment. This is reflected in building traditions around the world – from ancient history to present day. A healthy...Continue Reading »

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• 2. DEVELOPMENT OF THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOM CONTROLLER FOR SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Heat exchanger being an indispensable unit in chemical processes is mostly used to transfer heat energy from a fluid of higher temperature to a cooler fluid (Padhee et al., 2011). There are various kinds of heat exchangers available in the process industry such as, plate heat, plate fin, pillow plate heat exchangers, but the most frequently used...Continue Reading »

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• 3. PHARMACOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF HIV/AIDS MANAGEMENT PHARMACY

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Ill health can result in an increase in economic burden on individuals, contributing to income loss, asset depletion as well as investment of a large amount of National resources to combating that disease. These processes are brought into sharper focus by the social and economic impact of the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) ep...Continue Reading »

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• 4. STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PERFORMANCE OF BIOPOLYMER DRILL-IN FLUID FOR DIF...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The use of rheological models to approximate the behaviour of non Newtonian fluids is very paramount in the oil and gas industry especially during drilling, well completion, workover and acidizing. In drilling operations, mathematically designed rheological models are used to describe the viscous forces to develop frictional pressure loss equati...Continue Reading »

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• 5. QUANTIFYING INCREMENTAL OIL PRODUCTION AND ECONOMICS OF USING INTELLIGENT COMPLE...

  » CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Reserves are the main asset of the exploration and production (E&P) industry. Every E&P firm aims at maximizing its total profit in the long run, hence the industry aims at enhancing ultimate recovery of a field, cost efficiently. However, most of the hydrocarbons in place are not recovered; about 35% of hydrocarbons in place are recovered leaving be...Continue Reading »

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• 6. QUANTIFICATION OF UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS FOR DEVELOPING MARGINAL FIELDS

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION The Niger Delta is situated in the Gulf of Guinea and has prograded south westward from Eocene to the present forming various depobelts. It is Africa’s largest and most prolific oil producing basin and also one of the world’s largest delta systems of tertiary age and covers an area of about 75,000 km2. Several discovered marginal fie...Continue Reading »

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• 7. PRESSURE ANALYSIS OF A WELL WITH AN INCLINED HYDRAULIC FRACTURE IN A NATURALLY F...

  » NTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Hydraulic fracturing is an important well stimulation technique that has been widely used in the oil and gas industry. The technique involves creation of fractures or fracture system in porous medium to overcome wellbore damage, to improve oil and gas productivity in low permeability reservoirs or to increase production in secondary recovery operations. Most of the pre...Continue Reading »

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• 8. PRACTICAL APPROACHES FOR SOLVING LOST CIRCULATION PROBLEMS WHILE DRILLING

  » CHAPTER ONE FORMULATION OF PROBLEM 1.1 INTRODUCTION Lost circulation is a common drilling problem especially in highly permeable formations, depleted reservoirs, and fractured or cavernous formations. The range of lost circulation problems begin in the shallow, unconsolidated formations and extend into the well consolidated formations that are fractured by the hydrostatic head imposed by the drill...Continue Reading »

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• 9. OPTIMIZATION OF STRATEGIES FOR NATURAL GAS UTILIZATION

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION Natural gas is a subcategory of petroleum that is a naturally occurring, complex mixture of hydrocarbons, with a minor amount of inorganic compounds. It was once an almost embarrassing and unwanted by product or more correctly a co product of crude oil production but that notion has since been abandoned because of the huge potential for gas comm...Continue Reading »

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• 10. MODELING AND SIMULATION OF RESERVOIR FORMATION DAMAGE DUE TO CHEMICAL PRECIPITAT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Problem Statement Formation damage refers to the impairment of the permeability of petroleum bearing formations by various adverse processes. Formation damage is an undesirable operational and economic problem that can occur in many phases of field development including drilling, completion, workover, production, stimulation, waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery. In...Continue Reading »

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• 11. MATERIAL BALANCE APPLICATION FOR BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND Petroleum reserves are declining, and fewer noteworthy discoveries have been made in recent years (Abdus, 1990). The need to increase recovery from the vast amount of remaining oil and to compete globally require healthier reservoir management practices (Abdus et al, 1994). However, technological developments in all areas of petroleum exploration and exploitation, along ...Continue Reading »

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• 12. INVESTIGATING THE BEHAVIOUR OF AIR-SILICONE OIL FLOWS IN VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL...

  » CHAPTER 1 1.1 Introduction The simultaneous flow of fluids is difficult in a safe and controlled way, with the exception that various behaviors of the flow can be predicted with adequate reliability. It deals with the concurrent flow of fluids within different phases (i.e. gas, liquid and solid) or the different chemical properties but in the same phase, for example gas liquid, gas solid, liquid s...Continue Reading »

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• 13. INVESTIGATING HORIZONTAL-WELL INTERFERENCE TEST APPLICATIONS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview of Well Testing Well test analysis or pressure transient testing involves generating and measuring pressure variations with time in the well in order to estimate rock, fluid and well properties. Information that can be estimated from well testing include wellbore volume, damage and improvement; reservoir pressure (initial and average); permeability; porosity; ...Continue Reading »

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• 14. IMPLICATION OF VOID PREDICTION IN THE DETERMINATION OF PRESSURE GRADIENT IN VERT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Any fluid flow with more than one phase or flow species is termed ‘multiphase flow’. Most real life flow streams are multiphase. Common examples are hydrocarbon movement either from the reservoir to the wellbore or in transportation lines, blood flow streams in living organisms, nuclear fluids in nuclear reactors, etc. Multiphase systems may be t...Continue Reading »

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• 15. HYDRODYNAMICS BEHAVIOUR OF SLUG FLOW IN 800 OFF THE HORIZONTAL PIPE USING ELECTR...

  » CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Problem definition Multiphase flows are usually encountered in oil and gas industries, commonly among these flows is slug flow in which liquid flows intermittently with gas along pipes or wells in a concentrated mass called slugs. The existence of slug flows usually poses a major and expensive threat or problem to the oil industry, especially to the designer or the opera...Continue Reading »

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• 16. EVALUATION OF IN-FILL WELL PLACEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION USING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ...

  » CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.1 Introduction There is a growing demand to develop petroleum reservoirs through the drilling of in fill wells to exploit the hydrocarbon reserves not properly drained by existing producing wells. Well placement can be referred to as all activities associated with drilling a wellbore to intercept one or more specified locations. The term is usu...Continue Reading »

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• 17. ESTIMATION OF DRILLING WASTES – AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN WHILE DRILLING OIL AN...

  » CHAPTER ONE FORMULATION OF PROBLEM 1.1 Problem Definition Petroleum is among the world’s most important natural resources. It is the most significant and highly traded primary commodity in the international market (Illedare, et al., 1999) and has remained the world’s primary source of energy for both industrial and domestic applications since replacing coal early in this century. Howev...Continue Reading »

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• 18. ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY IN HIGH VISCOUS RESERVOIR USING THE THERMAL PROCESS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 General Introduction Reservoirs act differently due to varying range of both rock and fluid properties and thus must be treated uniquely. During production, reservoirs are allowed to naturally produce their hydrocarbons until when production rates are mostly not economical viable then other support systems are used. Primary recovery is the natural stage of the reservoi...Continue Reading »

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• 19. EFFECTS OF PARTIAL COMPLETION ON PRODUCTIVITY INDEX

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT Well productivity is one of the major concerns in oil field development, and provides the means for oil field development strategy. Sometimes, well performance is measured in terms of productivity index. In order to arrive at the economic feasibility of drilling a well, petroleum engineers require proven and reliable methods to estimate the expected p...Continue Reading »

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• 20. DIRECTIONAL DRILLING HYDRAULICS OPTIMIZATION USING CONVENTIONAL AND NANOBASED DR...

  » CHAPTER 1 FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM 1.1 Introduction Hydraulics system plays an important role during rotary drilling operations. Proper design and maintenance of this system increases drilling efficiency (high rate of penetration) and lowers the overall drilling cost. The hydraulic system is the drilling fluid system in the wellbore when the fluid is in static or dynamic state. The dynamic state...Continue Reading »

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