Patent ID: 11898094
Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC C  E  G | IPC C  E  G

Claim 19:
20. The process of claim 13, wherein an analytical model determines the target fluid mixture for use in the oil field operation or the pipeline operation based on one or more parameters selected from the small-scale drag reduction parameter ΔB for the fluid mixture, a relaxation time of the drag reducing agent, a Weissenberg number for the fluid mixture, a shear rate of the fluid mixture, a diameter of a conduit in the oil field operation or the pipeline operation, a wall roughness of the conduit, a wall shear stress in the conduit, a flow rate of the fluid mixture through the conduit, a viscosity of the fluid mixture, a density of the fluid mixture, a temperature of the fluid mixture, a molecular weight of the drag reducing agent, or any combination thereof.