Abstract
ABSTRACTRecent investigations have proved more worldwide availability of heavy crude oil resources such as bitumen than those with conventional crude oil. Diluting the bitumen through injection of solvents including tetradecane into such reservoirs to decrease the density and viscosity of bitumen has been found to be an efficient enhanced oil recovery approach. This study focuses on introducing an effective and robust density predictive method for Athabasca bitumen-tetradecane mixtures against pressure, temperature and solvent weight percent through implementation of adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system technique. The emerged results of proposed model were compared to experimentally reported and correlation-based density values in different conditions. Values of 0.003805 and 1.00 were achieved for mean square error and R2, respectively. The developed model is therefore regarded as a highly appropriate tool for the purpose of bitumen-tetradecane mixture density estimation.
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