Prediction of the deposited ballast amount when mixing oil
The paper investigates the process of ballast deposition on the example of mixing two different oil samples of Azerbaijan in different ratios. When mixing oil samples in various proportions, changes of the content of aromatic, naphthenic and paraffin hydrocarbons usually occur. A certain regularity of their content change, as well as a change in the macroscopic indicators, such as density, viscosity and freezing point, depending on the chemical composition of various types of oil and their mixtures, was considered in the paper. To eliminate or timely prevent the losses that occur during transportation and storage of mixed oils, accounting for the time of ballasts deposition and their mass fraction becomes important. Various mathematical models have been proposed to prevent clogging in pipelines due to the deposition of ballasts for the purpose of predicting them.