Research Article

Novel Desorber for Online Drilling Mud Gas Logging

Table 1

Physical and thermodynamic parameters used in calculations.

ParameterSymbolUnitValue

TemperatureK293
PressurePa105
Gas constantJ mol−1⋅K−18.31446218
Methane molar mass [11]g mol−116.0425
Methane Henry constant [10]M atm−10.0014
mol m−3⋅Pa−11.382 ⋅ 10−5
Water density [11]kg m−3998
Methane density [11]kg m−30.65941
Water dynamic viscosity [11]cP = mPa s1.0016
Methane dynamic viscosity [11]cP = mPa s0.011024
Methane molar volume [11]dm3 mol−124.341
Gravitational accelerationm s−29.81