Bubble-Population-Balance Modeling for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Foam Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Processes: From Pore-Scale to Core-Scale and Field-Scale Events
| Autor: | Seung Ihl Kam, Mohammad Izadi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Supercritical carbon dioxide Materials science Field (physics) Scale (ratio) Petroleum engineering Pore scale Bubble Population Energy Engineering and Power Technology Geology Core (manufacturing) 02 engineering and technology 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter Fuel Technology 020401 chemical engineering Enhanced oil recovery 0204 chemical engineering education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. 22:1467-1480 |
| ISSN: | 1930-0212 1094-6470 |
| Popis: | Summary A bubble-population-balance foam-modeling technique is developed to investigate how carbon dioxide (CO2) foam behaves rheologically and propagates in a field-scale radial system. The modeling technique is based on pore-scale events and honors three different foam states (weak, strong, and intermediate) and two steady-state strong-foam-flow regimes (high- and low-quality) measured in core-scale experiments. The model parameters are first obtained from a fit to laboratory–coreflood experimental data, and then the mechanistic model is applied to different types of CO2 foams, ranging from gaseous to supercritical–CO2 foams, represented by various mobilization pressure gradients. The results from the fit to existing coreflood data show that a reasonable match can be made satisfying multiple constraints, such as hysteresis exerted by three foam states, non–Newtonian flow behavior caused by gas trapping and shear–thinning rheology, and bubble stability in different capillary pressure environments. When applied to field–scale scenarios, supercritical–CO2 foams requiring low mobilization pressure gradients propagate much farther than gaseous–CO2 foams, far enough to make use of promising supercritical–CO2 foams in the field. This study, for the first time, theoretically demonstrates why supercritical–CO2 foams should be preferred in the field compared with gaseous N2 or CO2 foams. The companion paper to extend this study to full–field–scale foam propagation in conjunction with gravity segregation is Izadi and Kam (2018). |
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