A Method for Evaluating the Methane Content of the Nanoscale Pores in Deep Coalbeds

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 608-614
Author(s):  
Yu Yang ◽  
Chunhua Guo ◽  
Wangang Chen ◽  
Hansen Sun ◽  
Ping Yan ◽  
...  

Since the sampling depth is large in deep coalbed methane wells, during the lifting process of coalbed cores, the core surface pressure drops nonlinearly with time, which is contradictory to the premise of the conventional United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) method and the Smith-Williams method. In this paper, a desorption–diffusion model was established to quantitatively characterize the actual escape process of methane gas from nanoscale pores in coal cores in both the wellbore and desorption tank by considering the nonlinear relationship between the core surface pressure and time. Based on the optimization method, the measured volume of the desorbed gas in the desorption tank was fitted, and then, the amount of lost gas in the wellbore was inferred. The calculation result of the USBM method was smaller than that of the method used in this paper. In the calculation model of lost gas volume proposed in this paper, the lost gas time was corrected, and the non-uniform decreasing characteristics of the core surface pressure were considered. Therefore, the lost gas obtained by this model was more accurate than that obtained by the conventional method.

2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872110052
Author(s):  
Yuechao Liu ◽  
Dong Guo ◽  
Min Zhou ◽  
Shanshan Wu ◽  
Dongmei Li

One optimization method of hourly heat load calculation model for heat storage air-conditioning heating system in different climate zones was proposed. A building model is initially built in six different climate zones. Subsequently, the hourly heat load and steady-state design heat load in different climate zones were analyzed. Simultaneously, the hourly heat load additional coefficient of the air-conditioning system with different heating modes on a typical day was compared. It can be found that steady-state design heat load on a typical day is mostly between the peak load and average load of the air-conditioning heating system. Simultaneously, results indicate that the hourly heat load additional coefficient in each climate zone can be fitted to different exponential functions. When the heat storage capacity of building components was changed, the maximum increase of the hourly heat load additional coefficient of the air-conditioning system with intermittent heating was 5%. Thus, the research of the optimal design of hourly heat load calculation method provides a relative reference for performance improvement of the heat storage air-conditioning heating system.


1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (06) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Warren ◽  
Jim Powers ◽  
David Bode ◽  
Eric Carre ◽  
Lee Smith

This paper (SPE 52993) was revised for publication from paper SPE 36536, first presented at the 1996 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, 6-9 October. Original manuscript received for review 11 October 1996. Revised manuscript received 22 September 1998. Paper peer approved 23 September 1998. Summary A Wireline retrievable coring system for use with conventional drilling equipment is described. The coring system was developed and tested for application in evaluating coalbed methane prospects where a large quantity of core is required, and it is essential that the core is processed soon after it is cut. A drill plug allows for alternation between coring and drilling without tripping the drillstring. The system is particularly advantageous for coring long intervals, multiple zones relatively close together, or when the exact target depth is unknown. The system has been used to core more than 4940 m (15,057 ft) in Poland, Germany, and France, with a combined core recovery of 94%. In addition, the impact of varying rig costs on total savings is factored into the overall economic evaluation of the system. P. 489


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rogers ◽  
Ciaran Beggan ◽  
Kathryn Whaler

<p>Spherical Slepian functions (or ‘Slepian functions’) are mathematical functions which can be used to decompose potential fields, as represented by spherical harmonics, into smaller regions covering part of a spherical surface. This allows a spatio-spectral trade-off between aliasing of the signal at the boundary edges while constraining it within a region of interest. While Slepian functions have previously been applied to geodetic and crustal magnetic data, this work further applies Slepian functions to flows on the core-mantle boundary. There are two main reasons for restricting flow models to certain parts of the core surface. Firstly, we have reason to believe that different dynamics operate in different parts of the core (such as under LLSVPs) while, secondly, the modelled flow is ambiguous over certain parts of the surface (when applying flow assumptions). Spherical Slepian functions retain many of the advantages of our usual flow description, concerning for example the boundary conditions it must satisfy, and allowing easy calculation of the power spectrum, although greater initial computational effort is required.</p><p><br>In this work, we apply Slepian functions to core flow models by directly inverting from satellite virtual observatory magnetic data into regions of interest. We successfully demonstrate the technique and current short comings by showing whole core surface flow models, flow within a chosen region, and its corresponding complement. Unwanted spatial leakage is generated at the region edges in the separated flows but to less of an extent than when using spherical Slepian functions on existing flow models. The limited spectral content we can infer for core flows is responsible for most, if not all, of this leakage. Therefore, we present ongoing investigations into the cause of this leakage, and to highlight considerations when applying Slepian functions to core surface flow modelling.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinfu Liu ◽  
Chunhua Liu ◽  
Guoqiang Liu

Abstract Dynamic behavior of coalbed methane (CBM) flow will provide the theoretical basis to optimize production performance for a given well. A mathematical model is developed to simulate flowing pressures and pressure drops of CBM column from well head to bottom hole. The measured parameters and independent variables of flow rates, flowing pressures and temperatures are involved in CBM producing process along the annulus. The developed relationships are validated against full-scale measured data in single-phase CBM wellbores. The proposed methodology can analyze the dynamic behavior in CBM reservoir and process of CBM flow with an overall accuracy of 2%. The calculating process of flowing pressures involves friction factor with variable Reynolds number and CBM temperature and compressibility factor with gravitational gradients. The results showed that the effect of flowing pressure on CBM column was more obvious than that on CBM and water column accompanied by an increase of dynamic water level. The ratios of flowing pressure on increment of CBM column to the whole column increased with the declined flow rates of water column. Bottom-hole pressure declined with the decreased flowing pressure of CBM column along the annulus. It will lead to the results of the increased pressure drop of CBM column and CBM flow rate in single-phase CBM wellbores.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (29) ◽  
pp. 4175-4181
Author(s):  
Yuki Kishimoto ◽  
So Yubuchi ◽  
Akitoshi Hayashi ◽  
Masahiro Tatsumisago ◽  
Rie Makiura

Facile creation of hybrid metal oxide-core/MOF-shell structures is achieved by stepwise solution-based modification of the core surface with a framework compound.


2012 ◽  
Vol 217-219 ◽  
pp. 2451-2457
Author(s):  
Ang Li ◽  
De Chun Chen ◽  
Hong Xia Meng

In view of the questions that heavy oil has badly flow condition and lifting efficient, and considering low carbon, energy conservation and environment as goal, an advanced artificial lift technology of cyclic nature gas heat insulation and geothermal temperature heating is developed, and the temperature calculation model of the technology was founded. The analysis that different cyclic nature gas volume, cyclic depth and oil production affect the formation produced fluid temperature distribution was made. The result is that the formation produced fluid temperature increases with the addition of cyclic depth and the function of rising temperature decreases from cyclic depth to wellhead, and that the formation produced fluid temperature increases with the addition of oil production and cyclic nature gas volume. A certain well as example, using the technology, the formation produced fluid temperature increases 11.14°C, compared to the conventional artificial lift technology. And it is favorable for surface transportation.


Author(s):  
Jose Urcia ◽  
Michael Kinzel

Abstract The Discrete Element Roughness Method (DERM) has been used to improve convective heat transfer predictions on surface roughness. This work aims to validate the core momentum-correlation of DERM through evaluating Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based solution of the flow around individual roughness elements with the goal of improving the correlations. More specifically, the matrix of scenarios evaluated using includes three different roughness elements at three different pressure drops (or flow rates). Results from these studies are to be used to validate and improve correlations used to approximate roughness in DERM. For further comparison, a fourth roughness element analyzed in previous work will also be compared. For each element, a steady and unsteady case are conducted and analyzed. The momentum loss results obtained from the CFD are then compared to the DERM-based predictions from the same roughness elements in search of any discrepancies. It is observed the momentum-correlation deviates from the CFD prediction with increasing element height.


1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Colebatch ◽  
C. K. Ng ◽  
N. Berend ◽  
F. J. Maccioni

To determine the reason for increased pulmonary distensibility in excised lungs, we performed deflation pressure-volume (PV) studies in 24 dogs. Exponential analysis of PV data gave K, an index of distensibility. Lung volume was measured by dilution of neon. Compared with measurements obtained in the supine position, with the chest closed, and with esophageal pressure (Pes) to obtain transpulmonary pressure, K was not changed significantly with the chest strapped, with pleural pressure to obtain transpulmonary pressure, or with the chest open. From displacement of PV curves obtained in the supine position and with the chest closed or open, we estimated that Pes was 0.18 kPa greater than average lung surface pressure. An increase in K in the prone and head-up positions was attributed to a traction artifact decreasing Pes. Exsanguination increased K and produced a relative increase in gas volume. These results show that overall pulmonary distensibility is unaffected by an intact chest wall. An increase in K and gas volume after exsanguination probably reflects a decreased pulmonary blood volume, with collapse of capillaries increasing the alveolar volume-to-surface ratio.


Author(s):  
Hongwei Hu ◽  
Jianqiang Shan ◽  
Junli Gou ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Haitao Wang ◽  
...  

Large break LOCA (LBLOCA) is one of the limit design basic accidents in nuclear power plant. The large flow water in the advanced accumulator is injected into primary loop in early short time. When the vessel pressure drops and reactor core is re-flooded, the advanced accumulator provides a small injection flow to keep the reactor core in flooded condition. Thus, the startup grace time of the low pressure safety injection pump is extended, and the core still stays in a long-term cooling state. By deducing the original accumulator model in RELAP5 accident analysis code, a new model combining the advanced and the traditional accumulator is obtained and coupled into RELAP5/ MOD 3.3. Simulation results show that there is a large flow in the advanced accumulator at the initial stage. When the accumulator water level is lower than the stand pipe, a vortex appears in the damper, resulting in a large pressure drop and small flow. The phenomenon meets the demand of the advanced accumulator design and the simulation of the advanced accumulator is accomplished successfully. Based on this, the primary coolant loop cold leg double-ended guillotine break LBLOCA in CPR1000 is analyzed with the modified RELAP5 code. When the double ended cold leg guillotine accident with 200s delayed startup of the low pressure safety injection occurs, maximum cladding temperature in the core with traditional accumulator is 1860K which seriously exceeded the safety temperature (1477K)[1] prescribed limits while the maximum cladding temperature with advanced accumulator has the security temperature-1277K. From this point of view, adopting passive advanced accumulator can strive a longer grace time for LPSI. Thus the reliability, security and economy of reactor system were improved.


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