Abstract

The natural gas compressibility factor indicates the compression and expansion characteristics of natural gas under different conditions. It is a thermodynamic property used to take into account the deviation of the behaviour of real natural gases from that of an ideal gas. Compressibility factor, Z, values of natural gases are necessary for most petroleum gas engineering calculations. In this study, a comparison between five different calculation methods is presented to determine this critical parameter for the same natural gas at different conditions (pressure and temperature), using Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Azizi, Behbahani and Isazadeh, Dranchuk- Purvis- Robinson, Dranchuk-Abu-Kassem and Standing- Katz methods. The correlations are based on the equation of state are often implicit because they require iteration. Many correlations have been derived to enhance simplicity; however, no correlation has been developed for the entire range of pseudo-reduced pressures and temperatures. Azizi, Behbahani and Isazadeh’s method was found to have the biggest error as a result obtained for T=20° C, and p=20 bar is no longer in the field of applicability.

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