scholarly journals The Enhancement of Lump Coal Percentage by High-Pressure Pulsed Hydraulic Fracturing for Sustainable Development of Coal Mines

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Yan ◽  
Jixiong Zhang ◽  
Nan Zhou ◽  
Junli Chen

The enhancement of lump coal percentage (LCP) is of great significance for most aging mines to achieve the production reduction and quality improvement. In order to enhance the LCP of hard coal seam in fully mechanized mining face and prolong the service life of aging mines, this paper puts forward the technological path of LCP enhancement using high-pressure pulsed hydraulic fracturing (HPPHF) based on the detailed analysis of the main factors controlling LCP. By analyzing the correlation between coal fracturing and LCP, the enhancement mechanism of LCP through HPPHF was concluded. Using the extended finite element method, a fluid–solid coupling numerical model of high-pressure pulsed water injection into coal seam was established, and effects of the fracturing method, pulse amplitude, pulse frequency, and water injection pressure on fracturing performance were assessed. Simulation results demonstrate that HPPHF can effectively reduce the required maximum pressure in fracturing, thus providing a higher percentage of coal lumps with lower energy consumption through the repeated pulsed loading of coal masses. Variations in pulsed pressure amplitude and frequency, as well as water injection pressure were positively correlated with fracturing performance. By their effect on the fracturing performance, we found that water injection pressure had the greatest influence, and the pulse amplitude and frequency had similar effects. At the same time, “high amplitude-high frequency” and “high amplitude-low frequency” had characteristics of short initiation time, large initiation pressure, but small fracture width, while “low amplitude-high frequency” and “low amplitude-low frequency” had characteristics of slow initiation speed, low initiation pressure, but large fracture width. Through the field test results in the fully mechanized mining face of Shichangwan Coal Mine, it was found that LCP with a diameter range of 13–100 mm was significantly enhanced by HPPHF. The present study is considered quite instrumental in providing a theoretical foundation for enhancing the LCP of hard coal seams and the sustainable development of coal mine enterprises.

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 1190-1195
Author(s):  
Jian Jun Liu ◽  
Quan Shu Li ◽  
Gui Hong Pei

Channeling flow frequently occurs during the high pressure water injection of low permeability reservoir. The injection process is complex and covers so many parameters of which the contribution to channeling flow is necessarily to be studied. In this paper, numerical simulation is combined with sensitivity analysis method to calculate the significance of the weight of parameters to the channeling flow. First the values of different parameters are produced by using Latin hypercube method; second, by using these parameters, finite element model have been established and simulated, and the quantity of channeling flow has been calculated; then Spearman rank relation is applied to measure the relation of parameters and channeling flow. The results states that, in 10 years continuous injection, the well spacing and injection pressure have significant impact on the channeling flow. This states that during the application of high pressure water injection, the pressure and well spacing should be controlled especially.


2009 ◽  
Vol 417-418 ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu Ting Han ◽  
Qing Fen Li ◽  
Jun Liang Li ◽  
Ying Gao

Well casing damage is a commonly existing problem in oilfield exploitation in the world. Daqing oilfield is a multiple-zone, heterogeneity sandstone oilfield, where the major influence factors which lead to casing damage are geologic factor, engineering factor, high pressure water injection and chemical factors. Among them, the high pressure water injection is the most important one. Water injection exploitation in Daqing oilfield showed that casing-damage increased with the increasing water injection pressure. However, the mechanism is not totally understood and the control method is not well developed yet. In the present work, the mechanism analysis of casing damage induced by high pressure water injection in Daqing oilfield is proposed. It is found that after high pressure water injection, the sandstone layer will expand and result in the vertical elongation of the casing. The additive tensile stress of the casing induced by vertical strains will cause casing-damage. Besides, the horizontal deformation of clay-stone increases with increasing water content of the formation layers and soaking time. The cohesion of clay-stone and inner friction angle decreased with increasing water quantity. In that case, some high obliquity formation layers which may induce high hypsography pressure difference will cause localized slip along weak formation layer interface in the area of waterishlogged clay-stone. Casing damage and well failure caused by the relative movement of the formation layer interface may therefore occur. The micro-fracture of formation induced by high pressure water injection also educed formation rupture and casing damage.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 3822
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Hongjuan Ran ◽  
Dezhong Wang

The pump turbine is prone to stall when running at part-load operation. Stalls would cause a hump-like head characteristic curve, low-frequency high-amplitude pressure pulsation, and surge or resonance in the system. There is a lack of efficient methods for pump turbine stall suppression. The traditional blade hydrodynamic optimization method has limited effect and would influence the other characteristics. As the essence of stall is flow separation, forming a severe backflow vortex, a “Groove Method” is put forward and employed to suppress stall in a pump turbine with the full consideration of the mechanical structure, flow field, and pressure field. Both experiments and calculations are carried out to test the effectiveness of this new method. Furthermore, its deep mechanisms are revealed. This method can weaken the head hump to a certain extent and reduce the pressure pulse amplitude induced by stall. Meanwhile, the performance at the design operating point is not disturbed much.


2014 ◽  
Vol 602-605 ◽  
pp. 3013-3016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Fu Tian ◽  
Chang Chao Gong ◽  
Xiao Peng Kong ◽  
Hai Yang Sun

In order to generate low frequency acoustic wave and minish the ratio of the length to diameter, it is appropriate to instead the circular jet by annular jet as the high pressure gas power. So the larger diameter of jet and resonator are got in the condition of the same pressure and flux. Flow simulations and experiments have been performed in order to better understand the behavior of the powered resonance tube (PRT) driven by annular. Simulation and experiment results show the PRT can be excited by a annular jet, and produce low frequency high-amplitude dynamic pressures and acoustic emission. The compression wave and expansion wave transmit into and out of the resonance tube alternately in a cycle and a cycle can be decomposed to two distinct stages of filling and evacuation. In experiment PRT can work in the low frequency at very low pressure, and PRT can generate intense sound wave at frequency from 50~3200Hz.


2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Eduardo Soares Ferreira ◽  
Milton José Porsani ◽  
Michelângelo G. Da Silva ◽  
Giovani Lopes Vasconcelos

ABSTRACT. Seismic processing aims to provide an adequate image of the subsurface geology. During seismic processing, the filtering of signals considered noise is of utmost importance. Among these signals is the surface rolling noise, better known as ground-roll. Ground-roll occurs mainly in land seismic data, masking reflections, and this roll has the following main features: high amplitude, low frequency and low speed. The attenuation of this noise is generally performed through so-called conventional methods using 1-D or 2-D frequency filters in the fk domain. This study uses the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method for ground-roll attenuation. The EMD method was implemented in the programming language FORTRAN 90 and applied in the time and frequency domains. The application of this method to the processing of land seismic line 204-RL-247 in Tacutu Basin resulted in stacked seismic sections that were of similar or sometimes better quality compared with those obtained using the fk and high-pass filtering methods.Keywords: seismic processing, empirical mode decomposition, seismic data filtering, ground-roll. RESUMO. O processamento sísmico tem como principal objetivo fornecer uma imagem adequada da geologia da subsuperfície. Nas etapas do processamento sísmico a filtragem de sinais considerados como ruídos é de fundamental importância. Dentre esses ruídos encontramos o ruído de rolamento superficial, mais conhecido como ground-roll . O ground-roll ocorre principalmente em dados sísmicos terrestres, mascarando as reflexões e possui como principais características: alta amplitude, baixa frequência e baixa velocidade. A atenuação desse ruído é geralmente realizada através de métodos de filtragem ditos convencionais, que utilizam filtros de frequência 1D ou filtro 2D no domínio fk. Este trabalho utiliza o método de Decomposição em Modos Empíricos (DME) para a atenuação do ground-roll. O método DME foi implementado em linguagem de programação FORTRAN 90, e foi aplicado no domínio do tempo e da frequência. Sua aplicação no processamento da linha sísmica terrestre 204-RL-247 da Bacia do Tacutu gerou como resultados, seções sísmicas empilhadas de qualidade semelhante e por vezes melhor, quando comparadas as obtidas com os métodos de filtragem fk e passa-alta.Palavras-chave: processamento sísmico, decomposição em modos empíricos, filtragem dados sísmicos, atenuação do ground-roll.


1979 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 6032-6032
Author(s):  
S. K. Guharay ◽  
S. N. SenGupta ◽  
M. R. Gupta

Author(s):  
Patrick Stahl ◽  
G. Nakhaie Jazar

Non-smooth piecewise functional isolators are smart passive vibration isolators that can provide effective isolation for high frequency/low amplitude excitation by introducing a soft primary suspension, and by preventing a high relative displacement in low frequency/high amplitude excitation by introducing a relatively damped secondary suspension. In this investigation a linear secondary suspension is attached to a nonlinear primary suspension. The primary is assumed to be nonlinear to model the inherent nonlinearities involved in real suspensions. However, the secondary suspension comes into action only during a short period of time, and in mall domain around resonance. Therefore, a linear assumption for the secondary suspension is reasonable. The dynamic behavior of the system subject to a harmonic base excitation has been analyzed utilizing the analytic results derived by applying the averaging method. The analytic results match very well in the transition between the two suspensions. A sensitivity analysis has shown the effect of varying dynamic parameters in the steady state behavior of the system.


Author(s):  
Vinayaravi R ◽  
Jayaraj Kochupillai ◽  
Kumaresan D ◽  
Asraff A. K

Abstract The objective of this paper is to investigate how higher damping is achieved by energy dissipation as high-frequency vibration due to the addition of impact mass. In an impact damper system, collision between primary and impact masses cause an exchange of momentum resulting in dissipation of energy. A numerical model is developed to study the dynamic behaviour of an impact damper system using a MDOF system with Augmented Lagrangian Multiplier contact algorithm. Mathematical modelling and numerical simulations are carried out using ANSYS FEA package. Studies are carried out for various mass ratios subjecting the system to low-frequency high amplitude excitation. Time responses obtained from numerical simulations at fundamental mode when the system is excited in the vicinity of its fundamental frequency are validated by comparing with experimental results. Magnification factor evaluated from numerical simulation results is comparable with those obtained from experimental data. The transient response obtained from numerical simulations is used to study the behaviour of first three modes of the system excited in vicinity of its fundamental frequency. It is inferred that dissipation of energy is a main reason for achieving higher damping for an impact damper system in addition to being transformed to heat, sound, and/or those required to deform a body.


2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (09) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Chris Carpenter

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper OTC 30407, “Case Study of Nanopolysilicon Materials’ Depressurization and Injection-Increasing Technology in Offshore Bohai Bay Oil Field KL21-1,” by Qing Feng, Nan Xiao Li, and Jun Zi Huang, China Oilfield Services, et al., prepared for the 2020 Offshore Technology Conference Asia, originally scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur, 2–6 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Copyright 2020 Offshore Technology Conference. Reproduced by permission. Nanotechnology offers creative approaches to solve problems of oil and gas production that also provide potential for pressure-decreasing application in oil fields. However, at the time of writing, successful pressure-decreasing nanotechnology has rarely been reported. The complete paper reports nanopolysilicon as a new depressurization and injection-increasing agent. The stability of nanopolysilicon was studied in the presence of various ions, including sodium (Na+), calcium (Ca2+), and magnesium (Mg2+). The study found that the addition of nanomaterials can improve porosity and permeability of porous media. Introduction More than 600 water-injection wells exist in Bohai Bay, China. Offshore Field KL21-1, developed by water-flooding, is confronted with the following challenges: - Rapid increase and reduction of water-injection pressure - Weak water-injection capacity of reservoir - Decline of oil production - Poor reservoir properties - Serious hydration and expansion effects of clay minerals To overcome injection difficulties in offshore fields, conventional acidizing measures usually are taken. But, after multiple cycles of acidification, the amount of soluble substances in the rock gradually decreases and injection performance is shortened. Through injection-performance experiments, it can be determined that the biological nanopolysilicon colloid has positive effects on pressure reduction and injection increase. Fluid-seepage-resistance decreases, the injection rate increases by 40%, and injection pressure decreases by 10%. Features of Biological Nanopolysilicon Systems The biological nanopolysilicon-injection system was composed of a bioemulsifier (CDL32), a biological dispersant (DS2), and a nanopolysilicon hydrophobic system (NP12). The bacterial strain of CDL32 was used to obtain the culture colloid of biological emulsifier at 37°C for 5 days. DS2 was made from biological emulsifier CDL32 and some industrial raw materials described in Table 1 of the complete paper. Nanopolysilicon hydrophobic system NP12 was composed of silicon dioxide particles. The hydrophobic nanopolysilicons selected in this project featured particle sizes of less than 100 nm. In the original samples, a floc of nanopolysilicon was fluffy and uniform. But, when wet, nanopolysilicon will self-aggregate and its particle size increases greatly. At the same time, nanopolysilicon features significant agglomeration in water. Because of its high interface energy, nanopolysilicon is easily agglomerated, as shown in Fig. 1.


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