Carbon Dioxide Hydrate Transport Test Facility
This multipurpose test facility is utilized to conduct a number of multiphase flow studies ranging from hydrate transport to liquid entrainment.
This multipurpose test facility is utilized to conduct a number of multiphase flow studies ranging from hydrate transport to liquid entrainment.
Corrosion, the gradual degradation of materials or metals due to chemical reactions with their environment, poses significant challenges in industries ranging from infrastructure and manufacturing to transportation and energy. To ensure the longevity and reliability of materials, it is essential to employ rigorous corrosion testing methods.
Heavy metals like mercury often migrate from natural sources—such as source rocks, metal-rich fluids, and oil-producing organisms—and accumulate within oil and gas pipelines, especially in complex terrains. This build-up poses serious challenges including corrosion, flow assurance risks, and environmental hazards. Our Liquid Metal Transportation Facility enables a deep dive into these issues throu...
Effective sand control is critical for ensuring long-term well performance and minimizing damage to production equipment. Tridiagonal Solutions offers high-fidelity sand retention testing (SRT) to evaluate and select the most suitable sand screens tailored to your specific reservoir conditions. Our advanced SRT setup replicates formation-specific particle size distributions (PSDs), enabling accura...
Sand production from weak reservoirs is a persistent challenge in the oil and gas industry. When sand becomes entrained in crude oil, it often settles at the bottom of the pipeline, forming stationary beds that lead to serious operational issues—ranging from reduced production rates and excessive pressure drops to equipment failure, erosion, and corrosion. Our Sand Transportation Facility is purpo...
TSPL's wax deposition flow loop is a hub of innovation, driving transformative research in multiphase flow dynamics. With advanced instrumentation and visualization capabilities, it provides crucial insights into wax removal mechanisms. Pioneering initiatives conducted within the loop, like self-pigging technology and wax inhibition proofs, lead to substantial cost savings and enhanced operational...
Industrial fluid systems, particularly those operating under high-velocity and abrasive conditions, place immense stress on essential components such as elbows, tees, reducers, and 3D pipe templates. Over time, this can result in significant erosion, jeopardizing equipment integrity, shortening component lifespan, and increasing operational risk. Tridiagonal Solutions offers a state-of-the-art Ero...
Corrosion, the gradual degradation of materials or metals due to chemical reactions with their environment, poses significant challenges in industries ranging from infrastructure and manufacturing to transportation and energy. To ensure the longevity and reliability of materials, it is essential to employ rigorous corrosion testing methods.
This multipurpose test facility is utilized to conduct a number of multiphase flow studies ranging from hydrate transport to liquid entrainment. Hydrate mimic studies focus on understanding the impact of hydrate particles on flow regimes transitions and multiphase flow characteristics. Poly propylene particles are used as hydrate mimics. These particles float at the interface of oil and water. Liq...
Asphaltene deposition remains one of the most persistent flow assurance issues in oil and gas production. These complex, heavy organic molecules can quickly accumulate, clogging flowlines, damaging equipment, and significantly reducing production efficiency. The challenge? No single mitigation strategy works across all reservoirs or crude types. Asphaltene behavior is highly dependent on the oil's...
Embark on a journey into the heart of our technological expertise, Mixing Facility. In the realm of the Chemical sector, optimizing tank configurations for increased yields is paramount. Challenges arise in determining the optimum configuration of mixing tanks, selecting the appropriate impeller type, impeller position, and impeller clearance to enhance yields through the mixing process without ge...
Understanding in situ gas volume fraction is critical for optimizing gas-liquid systems, especially in complex flow regimes. While overall gas holdup measurement is relatively simple, accurately capturing local gas holdup remains a significant challenge due to system opacity and noise interference.
In the realm of multiphase flow dynamics, understanding the intricate behavior of foams is essential for numerous industrial applications, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Tridiagonal's Foam Transport Facility stands at the forefront of this research, providing a state-of-the-art platform designed to delve into the complexities of foam generation and breaking mechanisms. This facility featu...
Aeration and foaming during the bottle filling process can lead to significant product losses, underfilling, and operational inefficiencies. This case study presents experimental investigations conducted to understand the fundamental mechanics of aeration and foaming under various liquid properties and operating conditions.
Project aimed to create an efficient drying process that would not burn the coffee beans. To achieve this, Tridiagonal created a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model and conducted a pilot plant proof of concept at TRL-3.
Paraffin wax deposition in pipelines is a persistent challenge in crude oil transport, affecting flow efficiency and increasing maintenance costs. This case study explores the effectiveness of paraffin wax stripping under various operational conditions using a full-scale experimental pipeline setup.
Effective sand management is critical to ensuring the longevity and performance of oil and gas wells. Uncontrolled sand production can cause severe erosion in downhole equipment, leading to increased OPEX/CAPEX and reduced well productivity. This case study focuses on evaluating the erosion resistance and flow performance of sand control screens—key to retaining formation particles while enabling ...
Understanding sand transport behavior in oil and gas wells is essential for designing effective sand management strategies. This case study presents a pilot-scale experimental loop designed to replicate wellbore conditions using tubular test sections with the same diameter as actual well designs, albeit at shorter lengths. The setup allows for both single-phase and multiphase flow studies to evalu...
Mercury contamination in oil and gas pipelines poses serious challenges—leading to pipeline corrosion and environmental hazards due to biomagnification in marine ecosystems. This case study investigates the gas-assisted transport of liquid heavy metals, like mercury, to enable effective removal from pipelines.
Erosion-corrosion experiments are pivotal for understanding the degradation processes in larger pipelines like 4-inch diameters, offering insights into the combined effects of both erosion and corrosion under real-world conditions. These insights are crucial for predicting and mitigating pipeline failures, guiding the development of robust materials and coatings, and optimizing maintenance strateg...
Tridiagonal Organization specializes in providing innovative solutions for various industries, including Oil & Gas, Pet Chemicals, Pharma, Food, Metals & Mining, Cement, etc. In these industries, equipment such as SS elbows, tees, reducers, and 3D templates are subjected to harsh operating conditions, including high velocities of abrasive fluids, which can lead to erosion. Erosion is a cri...
In most oil well production, that comprises over more than one reservoir, the major problem encounters is the gas and water that also gets produced with oil. AICD plays an important role in oil production and injection by restricting the flow of unwanted fluids.