Multiphase Flow Performance of Inflow Control Devices - Characterizing Downhole Flow Behavior in Lab Experiments

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Sebastian Jakob Mayer ◽  
Matthew Spiecker ◽  
Chris E. Shuchart ◽  
Russell Conway Burkey ◽  
Adam Ufford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Control Devices

Multiphase Flow Loop Testing of Autonomous Inflow Control Valve for Light Oil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soheila Taghavi ◽  
Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail ◽  
Haavard Aakre ◽  
Vidar Mathiesen
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Control Valve ◽  
Flow Loop ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Total Recovery ◽  
Light Oil ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
Model Oil

Abstract To increase the production and recovery of marginal, mature, and challenging oil reservoirs, developing new inflow control technologies is of great importance. In cases where production of surrounding reservoir fluids such as gas and water can cause negative effects on both the total oil recovery and the amounts of energy required to drain the reservoir, the multiphase flow performances of these technologies are of particular significance. In typical cases, a Long Horizontal Well (LHW) will eventually start producing increasing amounts of these fluids. This will cause the Water Cut (WC) and/or Gas Oil Ratio (GOR) to rise, ultimately forcing the well to be shut down even though there still are considerable amounts of oil left in the reservoir. In earlier cases, Inflow Control Devices (ICD) and Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICD) have proven to limit these challenges and increase the total recovery by balancing the influx along the well and delaying the breakthrough of gas and/or water. The Autonomous Inflow Control Valve (AICV) builds on these same principles, and in addition has the ability to autonomously close when breakthrough of unwanted gas and/or water occurs. This will even out the total drawdown in the well, allowing it to continue producing without the WC and/or GOR reaching inacceptable limits. As part of the qualification program of the light-oil AICV, extensive flow performance tests have been carried out in a multiphase flow loop test rig. The tests have been performed under realistic reservoir conditions with respect to variables such as pressure and temperature, with model oil, water, and gas at different WC's and GOR's. Conducting these multiphase experiments has been valuable in the process of establishing the AICV's multiphase flow behavior, and the results are presented and discussed in this paper. Single phase performance and a comparison with a conventional ICD are also presented. The results display that the AICV shows significantly better performance than the ICD, both for single and multiphase flow. A static reservoir modelling method have been used to evaluate the AICV performance in a light-oil reservoir. When compared to a screen-only completion and an ICD completion, the simulation shows that a completion with AICV's will outperform the above-mentioned completions with respect to WC and GOR behavior. A discussion on how this novel AICV can be utilized in marginal, mature, and other challenging reservoirs will be provided in the paper.

Investigation on the control of multiphase flow behavior in a continuous casting tundish during ladle change

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Rui Xu ◽  
Haitao Ling ◽  
Haijun Wang ◽  
Lizhong Chang ◽  
Shengtao Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Rolled Strip ◽  
Impact Zone ◽  
Steel Cleanliness ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
Slag Carry Over ◽  
Hot Rolled ◽  
Turbulence Inhibitor ◽  
The Impact

The transient multiphase flow behavior in a single-strand tundish during ladle change was studied using physical modeling. The water and silicon oil were employed to simulate the liquid steel and slag. The effect of the turbulence inhibitor on the slag entrainment and the steel exposure during ladle change were evaluated and discussed. The effect of the slag carry-over on the water-oil-air flow was also analyzed. For the original tundish, the top oil phase in the impact zone was continuously dragged into the tundish bath and opened during ladle change, forming an emulsification phenomenon. By decreasing the liquid velocities in the upper part of the impact zone, the turbulence inhibitor decreased considerably the amount of entrained slag and the steel exposure during ladle change, thereby eliminating the emulsification phenomenon. Furthermore, the use of the TI-2 effectively lowered the effect of the slag carry-over on the steel cleanliness by controlling the movement of slag droplets. The results from industrial trials indicated that the application of the TI-2 reduced considerably the number of linear inclusions caused by ladle change in hot-rolled strip coils.

scholarly journals Squeezing Force of the Magnetorheological Fluid Isolating Damper for Centrifugal Fan in Nuclear Power Plant

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Huang ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
Guochao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Magnetorheological Fluid ◽  
Centrifugal Fan ◽  
Parallel Channel ◽  
Mr Fluid ◽  
Mr Fluids ◽  
Control Devices

Magnetorheological (MR) disk-type isolating dampers are the semi-active control devices that use MR fluids to produce controllable squeezing force. In this paper, the analytical endeavor into the fluid dynamic modeling of an MR isolating damper is reported. The velocity and pressure distribution of an MR fluid operating in an axisymmetric squeeze model are analytically solved using a biviscosity constitutive model. Analytical solutions for the flow behavior of MR fluid flowing through the parallel channel are obtained. The equation for the squeezing force is derived to provide the theoretical foundation for the design of the isolating damper. The result shows that with the increase of the applied magnetic field strength, the squeezing force is increased.

Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Entrained-Flow and Fluidized Bed Mild Gasifier: Part 2—Case Study and Analysis

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Monayem Mazumder ◽  
Ting Wang ◽  
Jobaidur R. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Flame Temperature ◽  
Heterogeneous Reactions ◽  
Thermal Flow ◽  
Entrained Flow ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Gasification Process ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

To help design a mild-gasifier, a reactive multiphase flow computational model has been developed in Part 1 using Eulerian-Eulerian method to investigate the thermal-flow and gasification process inside a conceptual, hybrid entrained-flow and fluidized-bed mild-gasifier. In Part 2, the results of the verifications and the progressive development from simple conditions without particles and reactions to complicated conditions with full reactive multiphase flow are presented. Development of the model starts from simulating single-phase turbulent flow and heat transfer in order to understand the thermal-flow behavior, followed by introducing seven global, homogeneous gasification reactions progressively added one equation at a time. Finally, the particles are introduced, and heterogeneous reactions are added in a granular flow field. The mass-weighted, adiabatic flame temperature is validated through theoretical calculation and the minimum fluidization velocity is found to be close to Ergun’s correlation. Furthermore, the predicted exit species composition is consistent with the equilibrium values.

scholarly journals Multiphase flow behavior in deep water drilling: The influence of gas hydrate

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1386-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhong Fu ◽  
Yu Su ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Xingyun Xiang ◽  
Bin Li
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Gas Hydrate ◽  
Flow Behavior

Multiphase flow experiment and simulation for cells-on-a-chip devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meihua Zhang ◽  
Amy Zheng ◽  
Zhongquan C Zheng ◽  
Michael Zhuo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Soft Lithography ◽  
Particle Deposition ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Quantitative Agreement ◽  
Geometry Model

A microfluidic-based microscale cell-culture device, or a cells-on-a-chip device, provides a well-controlled environment with physiologically realistic factors that emulate the organ-to-organ network of human body. In the microsystem, the in vivo situation can be resembled closely by controlling the chip geometry model, medium flow behavior, medium-to-cell density ratio, and other fluid dynamic parameters. This study is to develop multiphase models to carry out experiments and simulate flow in such devices. A standard soft lithography method is used to build the three-dimensional microfluidic chips. A definitely good qualitative and reasonably good quantitative agreement is obtained between the experimental and simulation results for particle velocity in the microfluidic chip, which validates the numerical simulation method. The cell deposition rate influenced by the flow shear is studied. The influence of gravity, inlet velocity, and cell injection number on cell concentrations are also investigated. Comparisons of different designs of cells-on-a-chip devices are addressed in the study. The physics of flow dynamics and related cell particle motion due to each of the above-mentioned variables are discussed. The results show that the multiphase flow model is promising to be used for simulating cell particle deposition and concentration for the purpose of design of cells-on-a-chip devices.

Modeling Unstable Flow Dynamics in Porous Media Associated With CO2 Sequestration

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Riaz ◽  
Yildiray Cinar ◽  
Hamdi Tchelepi
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Co2 Sequestration ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Flow In Porous Media ◽  
Unstable Flow ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Macroscopic Models ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Vertical Glass

Multiphase flow in porous media is fundamentally a microscopic process that governs the behavior of geologic scale processes. The application of existing (standard) macroscopic models to problems of geologic scale multiphase flow has proved to be unsatisfactory within a wide range of governing parameters. Our objective is to develop the missing link between the fundamental physics of multiphase flow at the pore-scale and the phenomenological representation of dynamic behaviors across a hierarchy of geologic scales. An essential prerequisite to such an analysis is a qualitative understanding of the flow behavior in terms of flow structures that exist for various parameter combination within the regime of CO2 sequestration. An experimental study addressing these objectives is presented. Experiments are carried out at the laboratory scale in a vertical glass-bead pack, in the parameter range of sequestration flows. Experimental results are interpreted with the help of invasion percolation models.

CFD Simulation of Two-Phase Vertical Annular Flow in Both Upward and Downward Direction in a Small Pipe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekhwaiter Abobaker ◽  
Abadelhalim Elsanoose ◽  
John Shirokoff ◽  
Mohammad Azizur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Film Thickness ◽  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Annular Flow ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Downward Flow ◽  
Disturbance Wave

Abstract Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is presented to investigate the annular flow behavior in the vertical pipe by using ANSYS Fluent platform 17.2. The study was analyzed complex behavior of annular flow in two cases (upward and downward flow) for different air superficial velocities and range of Reynolds number for water, in order to obtain the effect of orientation flow and increasing superficial gas and liquid velocities on the base film, mean disturbance wave thickness, the average longitudinal size of disturbance wave as well as pressure gradient. For multiphase flow model, the volume of fluid method (VOF) for two-phase flow modelling was used and coupled with RNG k-ε turbulence model to predict fully annular flow structures in the upward and downward flow direction. From CFD simulation results, it is clear to see how increases in air velocity result in reductions in film thickness and increase in pressure gradient. Additionally, the results showed monotonic enhancement of film thickness occurring in tandem with increases in the liquid flow rate. However, due to the effect of gravitational force and interfacial friction, the film thickness and pressure gradient are slightly larger for the upward flow than for the downward flow. The results agree with the recent experimental data that studied the annular flow behavior and pressure drop in the upward and downward flow direction. This study will be very helpful in understanding multiphase flow behavior in natural gas wells.

Phase Relation of Forces Between Multiple Bends

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. C. Belfroid ◽  
H. Pereboom ◽  
N. Gonzalez-Diez ◽  
A. Anantharaman
Keyword(s):  
Multiphase Flow ◽  
Annular Flow ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Force Frequency ◽  
Frequency Response Analysis ◽  
High Frequencies ◽  
Transport Velocity ◽  
Flow Induced Vibrations

Abstract Multiphase flow induced vibrations are difficult to calculate. This is in part the prediction of the force frequency spectrum at a single bend, part the influence of bends on the multiphase flow behavior and therefore the prediction of the multiphase flow characteristics between bends. In this paper, the evolution of the forces between subsequent bends are discussed including the phase relations of the forces on the different bends. For annular flow, the forces between the different bends are incoherent and are more or less random. However, for stratified and especially slug flow, the forces remain coherent up to high frequencies. This means in a frequency response analysis of a piping structure, the transport velocity of the multiphase structures must be taken into account.

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