Measurement and modeling of turbulence in the gas/liquid two-phase zone during gas injection

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Y. Sheng ◽  
G. A. Irons
Keyword(s):  
Gas Injection ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase

Gas-Water Flow Behaviour During Mutual Displacement in Porous Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Renyi Cao ◽  
Junjie Xu ◽  
Xiaoping Yang ◽  
Renkai Jiang ◽  
Changchao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Relative Permeability ◽  
Gas Storage ◽  
Fluid Distribution ◽  
Water Displacement ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Process ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Mutual Displacement

During oilfield development, there exist multi-cycle gas–water mutual displacement processes. This means that a cycling process such as water driving gas–gas driving water–water driving gas is used for the operation of injection and production in a single well (such as foam huff and puff in single well or water-bearing gas storage). In this paper, by using core- and micro-pore scales model, we study the distribution of gas and water and the flow process of gas-water mutual displacement. We find that gas and water are easier to disperse in the porous media and do not flow in continuous gas and water phases. The Jamin effect of the gas or bubble becomes more severe and makes the flow mechanism of multi-cycle gas–water displacement different from the conventional water driving gas or gas driving water processes. Based on experiments of gas–water mutual displacement, the changing mechanism of gas–water displacement is determined. The results indicate that (1) after gas–water mutual displacement, the residual gas saturation of a gas–water coexistence zone becomes larger and the two-phase zone becomes narrower, (2) increasing the number of injection and production cycles causes the relative permeability of gas to increase and relative permeability for water to decrease, (3) it becomes easier for gas to intrude and the invaded water becomes more difficult to drive out and (4) the microcosmic fluid distribution of each stage have a great difference, which caused the two-phase region becomes narrower and effective volume of gas storage becomes narrower.

Heat Transfer in Porous Media Heated From Above With Evaporation, Condensation, and Capillary Effects

1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Udell
Keyword(s):  
Stable State ◽  
Superheated Liquid ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Water Steam ◽  
Zone Length ◽  
Compressed Liquid ◽  
Pressure Lowering ◽  
Darcy’S Equations ◽  
Convection Dominated

Heat and mass transfer characteristics of a sand-water-steam system heated at the top and cooled at the bottom were studied. It was found that at steady-state conditions the system segregated into three regions. The top region was conduction-dominated with the voids containing a stationary superheated steam. The middle region was convection-dominated, nearly isothermal, and exhibited an upward flow of the liquid by capillary forces and a downward flow of steam due to a slight pressure gradient. The bottom portion contained a stationary compressed liquid and was also conduction dominated. The length of the two-phase convection zone was evaluated through the application of Darcy’s equations for two-phase flow and correlations of relative permeabilities and capillary pressure data. The model was in excellent agreement with the observed results, predicting a decreasing two-phase zone length with increasing heat flux. The thermodynamics of the two-phase zone were also analyzed. It was found that the vapor phase was in a superheated state as described by the Kelvin equation for vapor pressure lowering. Also, it was evident that the liquid must also be superheated for thermodynamic equilibrium to result. A stability analysis demonstrated that the superheated liquid can exist in an unconditionally stable state under conditions typical of porous systems. The degree of liquid superheat within the two-phase zone of these experiments was obtained.

Effect of RE on Performance of Semi-Solid AlSi7 Alloy

2010 ◽  
Vol 426-427 ◽  
pp. 581-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Xi Yi ◽  
Shi Kun Xie ◽  
Xiao Qiu Zheng ◽  
Yong Ping Ai
Keyword(s):  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Semi Solid ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Different Content ◽  
Zone Temperature

The semi-solid slurry of AlSi7 alloy was prepared by near-liquids cast processing. The effects of different content of RE on the cast performance and the semi-solid remelting performance in AlSi7 alloy was researched. The results indicated that adding RE will widen the AlSi7 alloy solid-liquid two-phase zone temperature and refine the grains, silicon will obvious metamorphoses. The best amount of RE is about 0.5%. Its semi-solid remelting organization is equilateral globular grains.

Solidification with a quasiequilibrium two-phase zone

2001 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 759-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.V. Alexandrov
Keyword(s):  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase

GAS LIFT IN BASS STRAIT

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Kathryn J. Fagg
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Gas Injection ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Gas Distribution ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
Gas Lift

Gas lift has proved a most effective artificial lift method for the fields operated by Esso Australia Ltd in Bass Strait for the Esso-BHP joint venture. Gas lift is now used to produce approximately 5 st ML/d of the total crude production from the Strait. It has enabled wells to be produced to water cuts higher than 90 per cent, increasing the oil recovery from the fields by up to 35 per cent.Gas lift work in Bass Strait to date has included the use of special packoff gas lift assemblies for wells with sliding sleeves, the development of a tool to assist the opening of the sleeves, improved operating techniques to limit slugging from gas-lifted wells, and the testing of gas lift performance. Gas lifting has been more successful than expected, and as a result, workovers initially planned to install full gas lift strings for older wells have not been necessary. The two phase flow correlations available have been improved to match the performance of the gas-lifted wells. The correlations are now used to design tubing strings with a number of gas lift mandrels prior to running the initial completions and to select the optimum gas injection depth.Future work in gas lift for Bass Strait will involve the optimisation and automation of lift gas distribution on the platforms. Gas lift will also be used for planned future developments, including mini-platforms and subsea completions.

scholarly journals A Probabilistic Statistical Method for the Determination of Void Morphology with CFD-DEM Approach

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4041
Author(s):  
Yuanxiang Lu ◽  
Sihan Liu ◽  
Xinru Zhang ◽  
Zeyi Jiang ◽  
Dianyu E
Keyword(s):  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Gas Injection ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Packed Bed ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Binary Images ◽  
Void Shape ◽  
Shape And Size

Voids that are formed by gas injection in a packed bed play an important role in metallurgical and chemical furnaces. Herein, two-phase gas–solid flow in a two-dimensional packed bed during blast injection was simulated numerically. The results indicate that the void stability was dynamic, and the void shape and size fluctuated within a certain range. To determine the void morphology quantitatively, a probabilistic method was proposed. By statistically analyzing the white probability of each pixel in binary images at multiple times, the void boundaries that correspond to different probability ranges were obtained. The boundary that was most appropriate with the simulation result was selected and defined as the well-matched void boundary. Based on this method, the morphologies of voids that formed at different gas velocities were simulated and compared. The method can help us to express the morphological characteristics of the dynamically stable voids in a numerical simulation.

Convection in the two-phase zone of solidifying alloys

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Maples ◽  
D. R. Poirier
Keyword(s):  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase

scholarly journals Fractal Phase Distribution and Drying: Impact on Two-Phase Zone Scaling and Drying Time Scale Dependence

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1129-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Prat ◽  
Stéphanie Veran-Tissoires ◽  
Nicole Vorhauer ◽  
Thomas Metzger ◽  
Evangelos Tsotsas
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Phase Distribution ◽  
Scale Dependence ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Drying Time

Mathematical Simulation of Different Argon Blowing Style in Ladle Furnace

2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 3211-3214
Author(s):  
San Bing Ren ◽  
Jun Fei Fan ◽  
Zong Ze Huang ◽  
Yi Sheng Chen ◽  
You Duo He
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Simulation ◽  
Stokes Equation ◽  
Molten Steel ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Ladle Furnace ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Navier Stokes Equation ◽  
Flow Variables ◽  
Turbulence Parameters

In the present paper, applied the experiential correlation, the gas holdup and distribution of two phase zone which formed by argon blown were determined. The flow variables of molten steel and turbulence parameters in the Ladle Furnace were estimated utilizing the results of frontal calculation and through numerically solution momentum Navier-Stokes equation in conjunction with k-εturbulence model. Several different spray styles including blowing through single hole, double holes, top lance were simulated and compared in this project.

Relative Permeability Characterization for Water-Alternating-Gas Injection in Oil Reservoirs

SPE Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 0799-0808 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.. Shahverdi ◽  
M.. Sohrabi
Keyword(s):  
Relative Permeability ◽  
Gas Injection ◽  
Hysteresis Effect ◽  
Oil Reservoirs ◽  
Unsteady State ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Water Alternating Gas ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Phase Water ◽  
Wag Injection

Summary Large quantities of oil usually remain in oil reservoirs after conventional waterfloods. A significant part of this remaining oil can still be economically recovered by water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection. WAG injection involves drainage and imbibition processes taking place sequentially; therefore, the numerical simulation of the WAG process requires reliable knowledge of three-phase relative permeability (kr) accounting for cyclic-hysteresis effects. In this study, the results of a series of unsteady-state two-phase displacements and WAG coreflood experiments were used to investigate the behavior of three-phase kr and hysteresis effects in the WAG process. The experiments were performed on two different cores with different characteristics and wettability conditions. An in-house coreflood simulator was developed to obtain three-phase relative permeability values directly from unsteady-state WAG experiments by history matching the measured recovery and differential-pressure profiles. The results show that three-phase gas relative permeability is reduced in consecutive gas-injection cycles and consequently the gas mobility and injectivity drop significantly with successive gas injections during the WAG process, under different rock conditions. The trend of hysteresis in the relative permeabilty of gas (krg) partly contradicts the existing hysteresis models available in the literature. The three-phase water relative permeability (krw) of the water-wet (WW) core does not exhibit considerable hysteresis effect during different water injections, whereas the mixed-wet (MW) core shows slight cyclic hysteresis. This may indicate a slight increase of the water injectivity in the subsequent water injections in the WAG process under MW conditions. Insignificant hysteresis is observed in the oil relative permeability (kro) during different gas-injection cycles for both WW and MW rocks. However, a considerable cyclic-hysteresis effect in kro is observed during water-injection cycles of WAG, which is attributed to the reduction of the residual oil saturation (ROS) during successive water injections. The kro of the WW core exhibits much-more cyclic-hysteresis effect than that of the MW core. No models currently exist in reservoir simulators that can capture the observed cyclic-hysteresis effect in oil relative permeability for the WAG process. Investigation of relative permeability data obtained from these displacement tests at different rock conditions revealed that there is a significant discrepancy between two-phase and three-phase relative permeability of all fluids. This highlights that not only the three-phase relative permeability of the intermediate phase (oil), but also the three-phase kr of the wetting phase (water) and nonwetting phase (gas) are functions of two independent saturations.

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