Petroleum Engineering – Production
Abdorrahman Mehri Ghahfarrokhi; Hassan Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani; Ezzatollah Kazemzadeh; Gholam Abbas Safian
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Nowadays, use of visco-elastic surfactants as the main component of gel diverters is becoming more and more common among well completion engineers, as well as stimulation service companies. Gel diverter, as other kinds of diverters, is used in multi-layered carbonated reservoirs to diver acid into less ...
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Nowadays, use of visco-elastic surfactants as the main component of gel diverters is becoming more and more common among well completion engineers, as well as stimulation service companies. Gel diverter, as other kinds of diverters, is used in multi-layered carbonated reservoirs to diver acid into less permeable sublayer. As use of these materials becomes more common, modeling and simulating the gel-acid injection process becomes more required. In this study, a mathematical model is generated to simulate gel-acid injection process, and experimental data is compared with data predicted by the model. The purpose of this study is to investigate the field possibility of injection gel-acid and to generate a model for simulating this process, in order to smart permeability enhancement in Ahwaz oilfield, one of Iranian Southwest oilfields. The solutions predicted by model are in an acceptable correlation with experimental data. The generated model can be used for other multi-layered carbonated oilfields.
Amir Hosein Tahershamsi; Ahad Ghaemi; Mansour Shirvani
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In this study, liquid-liquid extraction process in a Kuhni extraction column was modeled and simulated. A non-equilibrium dynamic model was developed for modeling liquid-liquid extraction processes based on a rate-based model. The model equations are inclusive of partial and ordinary differential equations ...
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In this study, liquid-liquid extraction process in a Kuhni extraction column was modeled and simulated. A non-equilibrium dynamic model was developed for modeling liquid-liquid extraction processes based on a rate-based model. The model equations are inclusive of partial and ordinary differential equations which were discretized in column height direction. The population balance model was used for the calculation of droplet size distribution in the dispersed phase and the column hydrodynamic parameters. The equations were solved simultaneously through the finite difference method and the numerical method of lines. Experimental data on a bench scale Kuhni extraction column was used to evaluate the simulation results. The average correlation coefficient error of the mean diameter of the dispersed phase and mass transfer in various operating conditions are less than 2% 4 % respectively. A comparison between the experimental data and the simulation results proves the better productivity of the presented non-equilibrium dynamic model.
Gholamreza Fallahnejad; Riyaz Kharrat
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The specific objective of this paper is to develop a fully implicit compositional simulator for modeling asphaltene deposition during natural depletion. In this study, a mathematical model for asphaltene deposition modeling is presented followed by the solution approach using the fully implicit scheme. ...
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The specific objective of this paper is to develop a fully implicit compositional simulator for modeling asphaltene deposition during natural depletion. In this study, a mathematical model for asphaltene deposition modeling is presented followed by the solution approach using the fully implicit scheme. A thermodynamic model for asphaltene precipitation and the numerical methods for performing flash calculation with a solid phase are described. The pure solid model is used to model asphaltene precipitation. The transformation of precipitated solid into flocculated solid is modeled by using a first order chemical reaction. Adsorption, pore throat plugging, and re-entrainment were considered in the deposition model. The simulator has the capability of predicting formation damage including porosity and permeability reduction in each block. A new set of independent unknowns in a fully implicit scheme is presented for asphaltene deposition modeling. In order to find the solution of these variables, the same number of equations is also presented. The description of how to solve the nonlinear system of equations is also described.
