Experimental Investigation of Transport Mechanisms of Coal Particles and Gas-Water Interfacial Friction Factor for Stratified Flow in Coal-Bed Methane Horizontal Wellbore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongying Wang ◽  
Zhiming Wang ◽  
Sirui Chen ◽  
Xiaoqiu Wang ◽  
Quanshu Zeng
Fuel ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 391-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Ranathunga ◽  
M.S.A. Perera ◽  
P.G. Ranjith ◽  
C.H. Wei

2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 2470-2473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Liu ◽  
Yao Guang Qi ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Chun Cheng Xu ◽  
Fen Na Zhang ◽  
...  

Coal particles cleanout which is regarded as the key technology in the operation of coal bed methane (CBM) wells, play an important part in making steady production. In oil wells, Sand cleanout is operated by circulating a liquid or a multiphase fluid into the wellbore to bring sand particles to the surface. Although the sand cleanout operations have been applied successfully in most wells with high efficiency and negligible leakage, it would leak working fluid into coal bed formation, destroy the structure of coal bed and jam the formed channel of gas production. In this paper, a new continuous vacuum cleanout technology has been developed to effectively remove coal particles in CBM wells by employing a jet pump. The Concentric Tubing String (CTS) which is assembled by 3.5 inch tubing and 1.5 inch tubing is also introduced in, because there is no CCT technology in China at the moment. Detailed structure and principle of the coal particles cleanout technology system are described, while a theoretical model is formulated to optimally design the system based on the coal particles settling experimental data and jet pumping theory. It has been shown from field applications that the coal particles cleanout technology makes significant improvements in achieving high efficiency and preventing leakage in CBM wells. Moreover, the new technology reduces the skin damage and increase the production compared to non-vacuum CBM wells.


2012 ◽  
Vol 479-481 ◽  
pp. 2017-2021
Author(s):  
Wen Tao Qu ◽  
Yi Xiao Guo ◽  
Tao Ren ◽  
Yan Ping Sun

There are abundant coal bed methane resources in China, and recovery technology is considered a very important part in the development of coal bed methane. At present, coal bed methane production areas are still adopting the tubing liner pump, but because of the special working environment, in the pumping process, the fine breeze (sand) and other solid particles entering into the pump barrel is likely to cause the pump stuck, pipe string buried by sand and other issues. In view of the above problems, based on the ordinary tubing liner pump, through the increase of the anti-litter bypass style traveling valve housing and fixed valve housing, outside liner jacket, sand reservoir and liquid in tee joint measures we developed a new type of CBM special anti-clogging drainage pump and adopted finite element analysis software ANSYS to complete key parts of strength calculation. The use of this pump will effectively reduces the blocking of fine coal particles (sand) and other solid particles, decreases the pump's checking operation and workload of sand bailing, consequently improves efficiency, reduces overall operating costs.


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