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Experimental Investigation of In Situ Combustion for Heavy Oils at Low Air Flux.

机译:低空气流量下重油原位燃烧的实验研究。

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In order to conduct a successful in situ combustion oil recovery project, sustained propagation of the combustion front within the reservoirs is a must. Sufficient air must be supplied to maintain the propagating combustion front in the carbon oxide forming mode otherwise unfavorable low temperature oxidation reactions will consume oxygen and not mobilize oil. When this happens, the combustion process is deemed to be exhausted.;Quantification of the minimum air flux required for sustaining combustion zone propagation is needed to properly match the capacity of the air injection facility to the volume of reservoir which is to be swept by the thermal zone.;One-dimensional combustion tubes are conventionally used to obtain important combustion parameters required for designing an air injection project. Due to the high heat capacity of laboratory equipment designed for elevated temperature and pressure operation, oxygen addition reactions are promoted by the heat transfer through the core holder walls when the laboratory tests are performed at low air injection rates. Therefore, when operated at elevated pressures, the combustion tubes are unable to operate at the low air fluxes required to establish the minimum possible air injection flux while maintaining the combustion reactions in an effective mode.;In an attempt to address this issue, a state of the art combustion cell was conceived and utilized as a way of addressing the above mentioned constraints associated with high pressure one-dimensional combustion tubes. The new design enables continuous air flux reductions without having to adjust the air injection rate and as such allows for determination of the minimum flux for specific oils under conditions which are representative of a field scale operation. This research proves that experiments involving core from a typical Athabasca Oil Sands reservoir showed air injection processes, when operated at favorable conditions have the ability to propagate through the heavy oil reservoirs at high temperatures and at injection air fluxes (based on the air injection rate and area at the downstream front location) of under 1 sm3/m 2˙h.;This thesis presents a new approach to studying in situ combustion processes. It describes the nature of the combustion zone under a variety of conditions and air fluxes approaching those experienced in field projects and provides important information on the nature of reactions and the physics of the process which must be considered when attempting to predict combustion front exhaustion using a numerical simulator. It also gives insight into the limitations in laboratory investigations of in situ combustion as well as the expected behavior of field applications of the in situ combustion process.
机译:为了进行成功的现场燃油回收项目,必须在油藏内持续进行燃烧前沿的扩散。必须提供足够的空气,以使正在传播的燃烧前沿保持在碳氧化物形成模式下,否则不利的低温氧化反应会消耗氧气,而不会动员油。当发生这种情况时,则认为燃烧过程已耗尽。必须对维持燃烧区传播所需的最小空气通量进行量化,以使空气注入设施的容量与要被储气罐吹扫的储气罐容量完全匹配。一维燃烧管通常用于获得设计空气喷射项目所需的重要燃烧参数。由于为高温和高压操作而设计的实验室设备的高热容量,当在低空气注入速率下进行实验室测试时,通过芯架壁的传热会促进加氧反应。因此,当在高压下运行时,燃烧管无法在建立最小可能的空气喷射通量所需的低空气通量下运行,同时将燃烧反应保持在有效模式下。设想并使用了现有技术的燃烧室作为解决与高压一维燃烧管相关的上述限制的一种方式。新的设计可以连续减少空气流量,而无需调整空气注入速率,因此可以在代表现场规模运行的条件下确定特定机油的最小流量。这项研究证明,来自典型Athabasca油砂储层的岩心实验表明,在有利条件下运行时,注气过程能够在高温和注入空气流量下(通过注气速率和下游前端位置的面积小于1 sm3 / m 2·h .;本文提出了一种新的方法来研究原位燃烧过程。它描述了在各种条件下的燃烧区的性质,以及接近实地项目中所经历的通量,并提供了有关反应性质和过程物理的重要信息,在尝试使用燃料来预测燃烧前沿排气时必须考虑这些信息。数值模拟器。它还提供了对原位燃烧实验室研究的局限性以及原位燃烧过程现场应用的预期行为的了解。

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  • 作者

    Alamatsaz, Alireza.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Calgary (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 University of Calgary (Canada).;
  • 学科 Petroleum engineering.;Chemical engineering.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2015
  • 页码 497 p.
  • 总页数 497
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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