Yes / A simulation was conducted using Aspen HYSYS® software for an industrial scale condensate stabilization unit and the results of the product composition from the simulation were compared with the plant data. The results were also compared to the results obtained using PRO/II software. It was found that the simulation is closely matched with the plant data and in particular for medium range hydrocarbons. The effects of four process conditions, i.e. feed flow rate, temperature, pressure and reboiler temperature on the product Reid Vapour Pressure (RVP) and sulphur content were also studied. The operating conditions which gave rise to the production of off-specification condensate were found. It was found that at a column pressure of 8.5 barg and reboiler temperature of 180°C, the condensate is successfully stabilised to a RVP of 60.6 kPa (8.78 psia). It is also found that as compared to the other parameters the reboiler temperature is the most influential parameter control the product properties. Among the all sulphur contents in the feed, nP-Mercaptan played a dominant role for the finishing product in terms of sulphur contents.

Yes / A simulation was conducted using Aspen HYSYS® software for an industrial scale condensate stabilization unit and the results of the product composition from the simulation were compared with the plant data. The results were also compared to the results obtained using PRO/II software. The results show that the simulation is in good agreement with the plant data, especially for medium range hydrocarbons. For hydrocarbons lighter than C5, the simulation results over predict the plant data while for hydrocarbons heavier than C9 this trend is reversed. The influences of steam temperature and pressure, as well as feed conditions (flow rate, temperature and pressure) for the product specification (RVP and sulphur content) were also investigated. It was reported that the operating conditions gave rise to the production of off-specification condensate and it was also found that the unit could be utilized within 40–110% of its normal throughput without altering equipment sizing and by the operating parameters.

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Cette thèse étudie les premiers instants d'une collision d'ions lourds. Juste après cette collision, il a été démontré que la matière produite -- appelée Plasma de Quarks et de Gluons (PQG) -- est très loin de l'équilibre thermique. On voudrait donc savoir si le PQG thermalise, et quelle est l'échelle de temps caractéristique pour cela. Le manuscrit expose l'étude de ces questions dans deux sortes de théories.Dans un premier temps, on étudie une théorie scalaire. En initialisant cette dernière dans un état hors équilibre, on peut étudier l'approche de l'équilibre pour un système de volume fixe ou un système en expansion unidimensionnelle. Dans les deux cas, des preuves d'une possible thermalisation peuvent être observées : une équation d'état se forme, le tenseur des pressions devient isotrope et le nombre d'occupation tend vers une distribution d'équilibre thermique classique. Ces résultats sont obtenus à l'aide de l'approximation classique statistique (ACS), qui permet d'inclure des contributions au-delà de l'ordre dominant de la théorie des perturbations.Dans un second temps, le "Color Glass Condensate", une théorie effective basée sur la Chromodynamique quantique adaptée à l'étude des premiers instants suivant la formation du PQG, est utilisé pour étudier de manière plus réaliste l'approche de l'équilibre thermique dans les collisions d'ions lourds. Après avoir établi quelques prérequis pour l'utilisation de l'ACS, les simulations numériques effectuées avec les équations de Yang-Mills semblent indiquer que le PQG devient rapidement isotrope, tandis que son rapport viscosité sur entropie est très petit, ce qui est la caractéristique d'un fluide quasi idéal. / This thesis deals with the theory of the early stages of a heavy ion collision. Just after such a collision, the matter produced – called the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) – has been shown to be far out of thermal equilibrium. One would like to know whether the QGP thermalizes, and what is the typical time scale for this. Proving that the QGP thermalizes would also justify from first principles the hydrodynamical treatment of the subsequent evolution of a heavy ion collision. After having recalled some essential theoretical concepts, the manuscript addresses these questions in two different theories In a first part, we study a scalar field theory. Starting from an out of equilibrium initial condition, one studies the approach to equilibrium in a fixed volume or in a one-dimensional expanding system. In both cases, clear signs of thermalization are obtained: an equation of state is formed, the pressure tensor becomes isotropic and the occupation number approaches a classical thermal distribution. These results are obtained thanks to the classical statistical approximation (CSA), that includes contributions beyond the Leading Order perturbative calculation. In a second part, the Color Glass Condensate – a quantum chromdynamics (QCD) effective theory well suited to describe the early life of the QGP – is used to treat more realistically the approach to thermalization in heavy ion collisions. After having derived some analytical prerequisites for the application of the CSA, the numerical simulations performed with the Yang-Mills equations show evidences of an early onset of hydrodynamical behavior of the QGP: the system becomes isotropic on short time scales, while the shear viscosity over entropy ratio is very small, which is characteristic of a quasi perfect fluid.

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a phenomenon in which identical bosons occupy the same quantum state below a certain critical temperature. A hallmark of BEC is the coherence between particles every particle shares the same quantum wavefunction and phase. This coherence has been demonstrated for the external (motional) degrees of freedom of the atomic condensates by interfering two condensates. In this thesis, the coherence is shown to extend to the internal spin degrees of freedom of a spin-1 Bose gas evidenced by the observed coherent and reversible spin-changing collisions. The observed coherent dynamics are analogous to Josephson oscillations in weakly connected superconductors and represent a type of matter-wave four-wave mixing. Control of the coherent evolution of the system using magnetic fields is also demonstrated. The studies on spinor condensates begin by creating spinor condensates directly using all-optical approaches that were first developed in our laboratory. All-optical formation of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in 1D optical lattice and single focus trap geometries are developed and presented. These techniques offer considerable flexibility and speed compared to magnetic trap approaches, and the trapping potential can be essentially spin-independent and are ideally suited for studying spinor condensates. Using condensates with well-defined initial non-equilibrium spin configuration, spin mixing of F = 1 and F = 2 spinor condensates of rubidium-87 atoms confined in an optical trap is observed. The equilibrium spin configuration in the F = 1 manifold confirms that 87Rb is ferromagnetic. The coherent spinor dynamics are demonstrated by initiating spin mixing deterministically with a non-stationary spin population configuration. Finally, the interplay between the coherent spin mixing and spatial dynamics in spin-1 condensates with ferromagnetic interactions is investigated.

The productivity of most gas condensate wells is reduced significantly due to condensate banking when the bottom hole pressure falls below the dew point. The liquid drop-out in these very high rate gas wells may lead to low recovery problems. The most important parameter for determining condensate well productivity is the effective gas permeability in the near wellbore region, where very high velocities can occur. An understanding of the characteristics of the high-velocity gas-condensate flow and relative permeability data is necessary for accurate forecast of well productivity. In order to tackle this goal, a series of two-phase drainage relative permeability measurements on a moderate permeability North Marmara &ndash / 1 gas well carbonate core plug sample, using a simple synthetic binary retrograde condensate fluid sample were conducted under reservoir conditions which corresponded to near miscible conditions. As a fluid system, the model of methanol/n-hexane system was used as a binary model that exhibits a critical point at ambient conditions. The interfacial tension by means of temperature and the flow rate were varied in the laboratory measurements. The laboratory experiments were repeated for the same conditions of interfacial tension and flow rate at immobile water saturation to observe the influence of brine saturation in gas condensate systems. The laboratory experiment results show a clear trend from the immiscible relative permeability to miscible relative permeability lines with decreasing interfacial tension and increasing velocity. So that, if the interfacial tension is high and the flow velocity is low, the relative permeability functions clearly curved, whereas the relative permeability curves straighten as a linear at lower values of the interfacial tension and higher values of the flow velocity. The presence of the immobile brine saturation in the porous medium shows the same shape of behavior for relative permeability curves with a small difference that is the initial wetting phase saturations in the relative permeability curve shifts to the left in the presence of immobile water saturation. A simple new mathematical model is developed to compute the gas and condensate relative permeabilities as a function of the three-parameter. It is called as condensate number / NK so that the new model is more sensitivity to temperature that represents implicitly the effect of interfacial tension. The new model generated the results were in good agreement with the literature data and the laboratory test results. Additionally, the end point relative permeability data and residual saturations satisfactorily correlate with literature data. The proposed model has fairly good fitness results for the condensate relative permeability curves compared to that of gas case. This model, with typical parameters for gas condensates, can be used to describe the relative permeability behavior and to run a compositional simulation study of a single well to better understand the productivity of the field.

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) primarily characterizes scaling in the formation of topological defects when a system crosses a continuous phase transition. The KZM was first used to study the evolution of the early universe, describing the topology of cosmic domains and strings as the symmetry-breaking phase transitions acted on the vacuum fields during the initial cooling. A ferromagnetic spin-1 $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) exhibits a second-order gapless quantum phase transition due to a competition between the magnetic and collisional spin interaction energies. Unlike extended systems where the KZM is illustrated by topological defects, we focus our study on the temporal evolution of the spin populations and observe how the scaling of the spin dynamics depend on how fast the system is driven through the critical point. In our case, the excitations are manifest in the temporal evolution of the spin populations illustrating a Kibble-Zurek type scaling, where the dynamics of slow quenches through the critical point are predicted to exhibit universal scaling as a function of quench speed. The KZM has been studied theoretically and experimentally in a large variety of systems. There has also been a tremendous interest in the KZM in the cold atoms community in recent years. It has been observed not only in ion chains and in atomic gases in optical lattices, but also in Bose gases through the formation of vortices or solitons. The KZM in the context of crossing the quantum phase transition in a ferromagnetic BEC has been theoretically studied, but this thesis is the first experimental investigation of this phenomenon.

Ultracold atoms have been successfully used to study numerous systems, previously unaccessible, but a precise control over the atom number of the sample still remains a challenge. This dissertation describes our progress towards achieving Fock states of atoms. The first three chapters cover the basic physics necessary to understand the techniques we use in our lab to manipulate atoms. We then summarize our experimental results from an earlier setup where we did two experiments. In the first experiment we compare the transport of cold atoms and a Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) in a periodic potential. We find a critical potential height beyond which the condensate behavior deviates significantly from that of thermal atoms. In the second experiment we study the effect of periodic temporal kicks by a spatially periodic potential on a BEC in a quasi one dimensional trap. We observe a limit on the energy that the system can absorb from the kicks, which we conclude is due to the finite height of the trap rather than quantum effects. The majority of the dissertation discusses our experimental setup designed to produce Fock states. The setup is designed to use the method of laser culling to produce Fock states. We are able to create a BEC and transport it into a glass cell 25 cm away. We tried different innovative methods to reduce vibrations during transport before finally settling to a commercial air bearing translation stage. We create a high confinement one dimensional optical trap using the Hermite Gaussian TEM₀₁ mode of a laser beam. Such a trap gives trapping frequencies comparable to an optical lattice and allows us to create a single one dimensional trap. We creating the TEM₀₁ mode using an appropriate phase object (phase plate) in the path of a TEM₀₀ mode beam. The method for producing the phase plate was very well controlled to obtain a good quality mode. Once the atoms are loaded into this one dimensional trap we can proceed to do laser culling to observe Sub-Poissonian number statistics and eventually create Fock states of few atoms. Finally, we describe a novel method to create a real time tunable optical lattice which would provide us with the ability of spatially resolved single atom detection. The majority of the dissertation discusses our experimental setup designed to produce Fock states. The setup is designed to use the method of laser culling to produce Fock states. We are able to create a BEC and transport it into a glass cell 25 cm away. We tried different innovative methods to reduce vibrations during tr₀ansport before finally settling to a commercial air bearing translation stage. We create a high confinement one dimensional optical trap using the Hermite Gaussian TEM₀₁ mode of a laser beam. Such a trap gives trapping frequencies comparable to an optical lattice and allows us to create a single one dimensional trap. We creating the TEM₀₁ mode using an appropriate phase object (phase plate) in the path of a TEM₀₀ mode beam. The method for producing the phase plate was very well controlled to obtain a good quality mode. Once the atoms are loaded into this one dimensional trap we can proceed to do laser culling to observe Sub-Poissonian number statistics and eventually create Fock states of few atoms. Finally, we describe a novel method to create a real time tunable optical lattice which would provide us with the ability of spatially resolved single atom detection. The majority of the dissertation discusses our experimental setup designed to produce Fock states. The setup is designed to use the method of laser culling to produce Fock states. We are able to create a BEC and transport it into a glass cell 25 cm away. We tried different innovative methods to reduce vibrations during transport before finally settling to a commercial air bearing translation stage. We create a high confinement one dimensional optical trap using the Hermite Gaussian TEM₀₁ mode of a laser beam. Such a trap gives trapping frequencies comparable to an optical lattice and allows us to create a single one dimensional trap. We creating the TEM₀₁ mode using an appropriate phase object (phase plate) in the path of a TEM₀₀ mode beam. The method for producing the phase plate was very well controlled to obtain a good quality mode. Once the atoms are loaded into this one dimensional trap we can proceed to do laser culling to observe Sub-Poissonian number statistics and eventually create Fock states of few atoms. Finally, we describe a novel method to create a real time tunable optical lattice which would provide us with the ability of spatially resolved single atom detection. The majority of the dissertation discusses our experimental setup designed to produce Fock states. The setup is designed to use the method of laser culling to produce Fock states. We are able to create a BEC and transport it into a glass cell 25 cm away. We tried different innovative methods to reduce vibrations during transport before finally settling to a commercial air bearing translation stage. We create a high confinement one dimensional optical trap using the Hermite Gaussian TEM₀₁ mode of a laser beam. Such a trap gives trapping frequencies comparable to an optical lattice and allows us to create a single one dimensional trap. We creating the TEM₀₁ mode using an appropriate phase object (phase plate) in the path of a TEM₀₀ mode beam. The method for producing the phase plate was very well controlled to obtain a good quality mode. Once the atoms are loaded into this one dimensional trap we can proceed to do laser culling to observe Sub-Poissonian number statistics and eventually create Fock states of few atoms. Finally, we describe a novel method to create a real time tunable optical lattice which would provide us with the ability of spatially resolved single atom detection. / text

This dissertation presents several experimental methods that were devised to generate or manipulate quantized vortices in highly oblate dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Studies that involve single vortex dynamics, vortex-vortex interactions, and vortex-impurity interactions are essential in developing a deeper understanding of the nature of superfluidity and in particular, superfluid turbulence. In highly oblate systems, vortex dynamics have a two-dimensional (2D) nature and the resulting superfluid characteristics may be substantially different from those in three-dimensional (3D) superfluids. However, there have been remarkably few experimental studies of 2D vortex dynamics in superfluids. Therefore, to study 2D vortex dynamics and interactions, it is necessary to first develop experimental methods that can generate vortices and vortex distributions in nominally 2D systems, such as highly oblate BECs. Four main experiments are discussed in this dissertation. Two of these experiments generate multiple singly quantized vortices in a relatively stochastic manner leading to disordered vortex distributions. From these two vortex methods, the physics of high vorticity and highly disordered systems may be observed and studied in a highly oblate system. These methods may prove useful in studies of 2D quantum turbulence. The other two experiments involve newly developed techniques for controlled generation and manipulation of vortices. One of these methods creates multiply quantized pinned vortices with a control in the generated vorticity. The other method reliably creates a pair of singly quantized vortices of opposite circulation, whose positions can be easily manipulated after creation, such that they can be placed in any location within the BEC. The two techniques may be scalable to higher number of vortices and may prove useful in superfluid dynamics and vortex interactions that require repeatable vortex distributions. Taken together, these tools and methods may be applicable to many further studies of vortex physics in highly oblate BECs.

Pacientes submetidos à cirurgia cardiotorácica com circulação extracorpórea (CEC) apresentam reações inflamatórias, desencadeadas por este procedimento e pela isquemiareperfusão, que acarretam disfunção pulmonar e lesão do endotélio vascular no pósoperatório. Estes processos relativos à cirurgia cardíaca podem afetar a produção e o consumo do óxido nítrico (NO) no pulmão e no endotélio vascular, principalmente na sua participação no processo inflamatório. No pulmão, o NO se difunde com facilidade sendo detectado na via aérea na fase gasosa ou no fluído pulmonar como nitrito e o nitrato. A presença do NO na via aérea pode em algumas situações refletir a sua produção pelo epitélio da via aérea e pelo endotélio microvascular pulmonar. No entanto, os processos que envolvem a produção e o consumo do NO na via aérea ainda não estão totalmente esclarecidos. O condensado do exalado pulmonar (CEP) é um fluido obtido através do resfriamento do ar exalado através de um método totalmente não invasivo e que pode ser utilizado para a investigação do NO nas vias aéreas distais. No desenvolvimento deste estudo foi utilizado um aparato de coleta artesanal e de baixo custo para obtenção do CEP. Assim, foi coletado o CEP de pacientes coronariopatas e valvopatas submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca com CEC nos períodos pré- operatório e pós-operatório (4 horas após a CEC e 12, 24, 48 e 72 horas após a extubação). As concentrações plasmáticas de nitrito/nitrato destes pacientes também foram avaliadas através de amostras de sangue colhidas imediatamente após cada coleta do CEP. O CEP e o plasma foram analisados pela técnica de quimioluminescência para obter as concentrações de nitrito/nitrato. O aparato utilizado obteve utilização reprodutível na rotina clínica da cirurgia cardíaca nesta pesquisa em pacientes sob ventilação espontânea e ventilação mecânica. Não foram encontradas diferenças significativas (p>0,05) nas concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no CEP e plasma entre os pacientes coronariopatas e valvopatas no período pré-operatório. Concentrações significativamente maiores de nitrito/nitrato (p=0,017) foram encontradas no CEP, mas não no plasma, de pacientes que utilizaram nitrato por via oral (dinitrato de isossorbida) no período pré-operatório. Em pacientes que não utilizaram medicação contendo doador de NO (nitroglicerina ou nitroprussiato de sódio) por via endovenosa no pósoperatório ocorreu uma tendência à elevação das concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no CEP que foi numericamente significativa no período de 48 horas do pós-operatório (p=0,008). Em pacientes que receberam ou não doador de NO no pós-operatório as concentrações de nitrito/nitrato foram significativamente maiores nos períodos de 48 horas (p=0,005) e 72 horas (p=0,037) do pós-operatório. A utilização de nitroglicerina (NTG) no período pósoperatório elevou significativamente as concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no CEP nos períodos de 12 horas (p=0,022), 48 horas (p=0,015) e 72 horas (0,048) e no plasma nos períodos de 12 horas (p=0,045). As concentrações de nitrito/nitrato plasmáticos foram significativamente reduzidas (p=0,045) no pós-operatório imediato 4 horas após a CEC em pacientes que receberam ou não doador de NO. A partir destes resultados pode se observar que não houve diferenças significativas nas concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no CEP dos pacientes coronariopatas e valvopatas no período pré-operatório, exceto elevação significativa encontrada em pacientes que utilizaram dinitrato de isossorbida por via oral. As concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no CEP tendem a elevar-se no período pós-operatório principalmente com a utilização de NTG. As concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no plasma foram significativamente reduzidas após 4 horas da CEC no pós-operatório imediato. No entanto foi observado elevação nas concentrações de nitrito/nitrato no plasma de pacientes que usaram NTG. Os achados deste estudo poderão contribuir em futuras pesquisas fornecendo dados comparativos a respeito da participação do NO na via aérea e no plasma nos processos que envolvem a cirurgia cardíaca nos períodos pré e pós-operatório. / Patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) have inflammatory reactions triggered by this procedure and by ischemia-reperfusion, which cause lung dysfunction and injury of vascular endothelium in the postoperative period. These processes related to cardiac surgery may affect the production and consumption of nitric oxide (NO) in the lung and vascular endothelium, especially in their participation in the inflammatory process. In the lung, NO diffuses easily and can be detected in the airway in the gas phase or in the lung fluid as nitrite and nitrate. The presence of NO in exhaled air may reflect the airway epithelium and lung microvascular endothelium in some situations. However, processes involving the production and consumption of NO in the airway are not totally understood. The exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is a fluid obtained by cooling exhaled air wich can be used for the investigation of NO in the distal airways. For this study we used an apparatus homemade and with low cost for collecting and obtain the EBC. The EBC was collected from patients with coronary artery disease and heart valve disease undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB in the preoperative and postoperative period (4 hours after CPB and 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours after extubation). Plasma concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in these patients were also evaluated using blood samples taken immediately after each collection of the EBC. The EBC and plasma were analyzed by chemiluminescence method to obtain the concentrations of nitrite/nitrate. The apparatus used was reproducible in clinical routine of cardiac surgery in patients under spontaneous ventilation or mechanical ventilation. There were no significant differences (p> 0.05) in concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in EBC and plasma in patients with coronary artery disease and heart valve disease in the preoperative period. Significantly higher concentrations of nitrite/nitrate (p=0.017) were found in EBC, but not in plasma of patients who used oral nitrate (isosorbide dinitrate) in the preoperative period. In patients who did not use medication containing NO donor (nitroglycerin or sodium nitroprusside) intravenously in the postoperative period there was a tendency to high concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in EBC that was numerically significant in the period of 48 hours postoperative (p=0.008). In patients who received or not NO donor in postoperative period the concentrations of nitrite/nitrate were significantly higher in periods of 48 hours (p=0.005) and 72 hours (p=0.037) after surgery. The use of nitroglycerin (GTN) in the postoperative period significantly elevated concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in the EBC in periods of 12 hours (p=0.022), 48 hours (p=0.015) and 72 hours (0.048) and plasma in period of 12 hours (p=0.045). The concentrations of nitrite/nitrate were significantly reduced (p=0.045) in the immediate postoperative period 4 hours after CPB in patients who received or not NO donor. From these results we could observe that there were no significant differences in concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in the EBC of patients with heart valve disease and coronary artery disease in the preoperative period, but we found a significant increase in these concentrations in patients who used isosorbide dinitrate orally. The concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in EBC presented a tendency to increase in postoperative period especially in patients who used GTN. The concentrations of nitrite/nitrate in plasma were significantly reduced after 4 hours of CPB in the immediate postoperative period. However, was observed that GTN tended to increase the concentration of nitrite/nitrate in plasma. These findings could help in future research providing comparative data about the role of NO in the airway and plasma in processes involving cardiac surgery in the pre and postoperative periods.