Compositional modeling of enhanced coalbed methane recovery.

摘要

A development and validation of a three-dimensional, two-phase, dual porosity, fully implicit, compositional coalbed simulator is presented. A multicomponent sorption equilibria using a thermodynamically consistent ideal adsorbed solution theory and Peng-Robinson equation of state is implemented to the simulator using a non-equilibrium sorption formulation. The simulator is used to model the nitrogen and carbon dioxide injections in the enhanced coalbed methane recovery which involves gas component and fluid phase appearances and disappearances.; The effects of absolute permeability, vertical heterogeneity, lateral heterogeneity, and sorption time constant to the methane recovery performance are studied. The performances of nitrogen and carbon dioxide injections in the enhanced coalbed methane recovery are compared. The roles of the injected gas composition, delayed injection, well spacing, cyclic injection/production, and intermittent gas injection to the methane recovery performance are studied.