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ABSTRACT
The resources of heavy oil and bitumen are more than those of conventional light crude oil in the world. Diluting the bitumen with liquid solvent can decrease viscosity and increase the empty space between molecules. Tetradecane is a candidate as liquid solvent to dilute the bitumen. Owning to the sensitivity of enhanced oil recovery process, the accurate approximation for the viscosity of aforementioned mixture is important to decrease uncertainty. The aim of this study was to develop an effective relation between the viscosity of Athabasca bitumen and heavy n-alkane mixtures based on temperature, pressure, and weight percentage of n-tetradecane using the least square support vector machine. This computational model was compared with the previous developed correlation and its accuracy was confirmed. The value of R2 and MSE obtained 1.00 and 1.02 for this model, respectively. This developed predictive tool can be applied as an accurate estimation for any mixture of heavy oil with liquid solvent.