scholarly journals Prospects of High Viscosity Oil Flow Rate in Horizontal Wells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudad H Al-Obaidi ◽  
Galkin AP ◽  
Patkin AA
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Pore Space ◽  
Analytical Formula ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
Molecular Components ◽  
High Viscosity Oil

The non-Newtonian nature of fluid flow represents one of the most important features of the development of high-viscosity oil (HVO) deposits .The deviation from the linear law of the fluid flow is associated, first of all, with the formation of a strong spatial structure due to the presence of high-molecular components and dissolved gases in the composition. The stress required to destroy the formed structure is called the shear stress of the ultimate destruction of the structure. In this regard, in order to ensure the flow of HVO through the pore space, it is necessary to create certain values of pressure gradients above the dynamic shear pressure gradient (DSPG). With increasing pressure gradients above the DSPG, the oil structure begins to collapse, and after overcoming the critical value of the pressure gradient of the ultimate destruction of the structure (PGUDS), flow begins to be described by the Newtonianlaw. The article considers the influence of various factors on the oil flow rate of a horizontal well (HW) that exploits the HVO Deposit. At the same time, numerical experiments were carried out on a hydrodynamic model for the non-Newtonian oil flow regime (in the presence of DSPG) and the results obtained were compared with calculations of the oil flow rate using an analytical formula.

scholarly journals High Viscosity Land Based Oil Flow Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mendelsohn ◽  
Eric Comerma ◽  
Matt Bernardo ◽  
Jeremy Fontenault ◽  
Sitara Baboolal
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Viscous Oil ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
Downslope Flow ◽  
High Viscosity Oil ◽  
Highly Viscous Oil

ABSTRACT Highly viscous oil does not behave the same as other regular liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. To evaluate the effects of a potential land-based blowout on the surrounding environment, RPS implemented a multi-step approach to simulate the trajectory and fate of high viscosity oil downslope flow. If spilled on land, initially warm oil cools and tends to gel, implying a non-Newtonian flow. To predict the behavior of high viscosity oil as it flows downslope, spreads and cools, RPS developed a new unique land-based spill model. The behavior of highly viscous crude oil has many similarities to volcanic lava flows, particularly the stark changes in oil viscosity and shear stress as the fluid cools. This study describes a “lava” flow numerical model developed to simulate the response of high viscosity oils. The viscous flow model is based on the lava model of Griffiths (2000) which simulates the unconfined motion of a Bingham fluid down a plane of constant slope. The model allows all physical and chemical parameters to vary continuously downslope. The lateral flow is assumed to cease when the cross-slope pressure gradient is balanced by the basal-yield stress also giving the height of the flow (H) on the center line of the flow as a function of shear stress. For oil flow motion the downslope pressure gradient must be greater than the oil shear stress and hence there is a critical height, based on the local oil shear stress and slope, below which there will be no downslope motion. An atmospheric heat transfer equation was applied to the oil surface as the surface boundary condition. The model was applied to a hypothetical on land release of highly viscous oil in a one-dimensional, downslope form, where the ground slope was assumed constant along the flow path. As the oil progresses downslope, its temperature was updated each time step in each cell and used to calculate new oil properties for density, specific heat, viscosity, and shear stress. The model results provide information about the rate and total distance travelled and time for the downslope flow to stop.

Two-Phase Filtration Model for Nonlinear Viscoplastic Oil and Hard Water Drive

2014 ◽  
Vol 698 ◽  
pp. 679-682
Author(s):  
Anastasia Markelova ◽  
Artem Trifonov ◽  
Valeria Olkhovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Hard Water ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Nonlinear Dependence ◽  
Fractional Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
High Viscosity Oil

The article offers a method to solve Buckley-Leverett’s problem, taking into account the nonlinear dependence of the filtration rate of viscoplastic oil on the pressure gradient. This method is based on the transformation of the fractional flow function by introducing in the theory of water drive the equations reflecting the rheological features of the oil flow. The resulting model allows us to quantify the influence of rheological factors on the completeness of the water-oil displacement and to calculate the performance, taking into account the component composition of the hydrocarbon phases. Taking the Samara Region oil fields as an example, the article shows that the quality of design is unsatisfactory when the bundled software being used does not take into account specific non-Newtonian properties of the high-viscosity oil.

Possible Reason of the Dependence of an Apparent Permeability on the Pressure Gradient at low Flow Rates in Laboratory Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Baryshnikov ◽  
Evgeniy Zenchenko ◽  
Sergey Turuntaev
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Pore Pressure ◽  
Pore Space ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Apparent Permeability ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Rock Samples ◽  
Pore Pressure Gradient ◽  
Filtration Properties

<p>Currently, a number of studies showing that the injection of fluid into the formation can cause induced seismicity. Usually, it is associated with a change in the stress-strain state of the reservoir during the pore pressure front propagation. Modeling this process requires knowledge of the features of the filtration properties of reservoir rocks. Many researchers note the fact that the measured permeability of rock samples decreases at low pressure gradients. Among other things, this may be due to the formation of boundary adhesion layers with altered properties at the interfaces between the liquid and solid phases. The characteristic thickness of such layer can be fractions of a micron, and the effect becomes significant when filtering the fluid in rocks with a comparable characteristic pore size. The purpose of this work was to study the filtration properties of rock samples with low permeability at low flow rates. Laboratory modeling of such processes is associated with significant technical difficulties, primarily with the accuracy limit of measuring instruments when approaching zero speed values. The technique used by us to conduct the experiment and data processing allows us to study the dependence of the apparent permeability on the pore pressure gradient in the range of 0.01 MPa/m, which is comparable to the characteristic pressure gradients during the development of oil fields. In the course of the study, we carried out laboratory experiments on limestone core samples, during which the dependencies of their apparent permeability on the pore pressure gradient were obtained. We observed a significant decrease in their permeability at low flow rates. In the course of analyzing the experimental results, we proposed that a decrease in apparent permeability may occur due to the effect of even a small amount of residual gas in the pore space of the samples. This has been confirmed by additional experiments. The possibility of clogging of core sample pore space must be considered when conducting when conducting laboratory studies of the core apparent permeability.</p>

Pressure and Flow—Chickens and Eggs

2011 ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
James R. Munis
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Variable Effect ◽  
Paddle Wheel ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Mechanical Pump

We tend to assume that when 2 things are associated with each other, one must be causing the other. Nothing could be further from the truth, though. Because we're used to seeing the independent variable (‘cause’) plotted on the x-axis and the dependent variable (‘effect’) on the y-axis, this equation and graph suggest that the pressure gradient causes the paddle wheel flow rate. That, of course, is nonsense. This type of specious thinking is intended to warn you away from assuming that relationships necessarily imply causality. As you've learned already, pressure is not the same thing as energy, and pressure by itself cannot perform work or generate flow. However, flow generated by pressure-volume work (either by the heart or a mechanical pump) certainly can create pressure gradients. In this sort of chicken (flow) or egg (pressure) question, if the only energy-containing term is flow, then I'll say that the chicken came first.

Oil Flow in a Full Journal Bearing

1961 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-314
Author(s):  
Donald F. Hays
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Hydrodynamic Pressure ◽  
Leakage Rate ◽  
Positive Pressure ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Oil Film ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
Pressure Area ◽  
Side Flow

An analysis was made of the oil flows occurring in a full journal bearing with a continuous oil film. The flow rate into the bearing was determined at the section of greatest clearance and the rate of outflow was determined at the section of least clearance. The rate of side flow or leakage rate was determined by considering the flow across the boundary of the positive pressure area only and is the flow resulting from the hydrodynamic pressure gradients. It does not include the effects of any specific oil feed mechanism.

Pulsatile flow in rigid tubes

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1078-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Linford ◽  
Norman W. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Pulsatile Flow ◽  
Fluid Velocity ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Tube Radius ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Time Relationship ◽  
Fluid Properties

The purpose of this study was to examine critically the theoretical equations derived for pulsatile laminar flow in rigid straight tubes. These equations, presented in their most useful form by J. R. Womersley in 1955, give the fluid flow rate as a function of the pressure gradient-time relationship, pulse frequency, fluid properties, and tube radius, and they give the fluid velocity as a function of the above quantities and the radial position in the tube. A pulsatile flow apparatus was constructed which would allow measurement of all the variables mentioned above, and a computer program based on Womersley's equations was used to calculate the fluid flow rate and velocity profile from the pressure gradient-time relationship, fluid properties, and tube radius. Thus a comparison between measured and calculated values of flow and velocity could be made. Calculations and data agree within the estimated experimental error, thus providing evidence of the applicability of the theoretical equations to actual flow with large pulse amplitudes. The analog computer “pressure gradient technique” of D. Fry and associates was compared with the exact solution for straight rigid tubes and found to deviate less than 20% in amplitude and phase except at very low frequencies. hydrodynamics, pulsatile flow; blood flow, arterial; hemodynamics, pulse characteristics Submitted on April 6, 1964

scholarly journals Thermal performance for electromagnetohydrodynamic flow of non-Newtonian Casson fluid through porous microtube

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 804
Author(s):  
Motahar Reza ◽  
Amalendu Rana ◽  
Raghunath Patra
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Flow Distribution ◽  
Casson Fluid ◽  
Temperature Profiles ◽  
Heat Flow Rate ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Kinetic Effects

A theoretical investigation is done to analyze the heat transfer features of non-Newtonian Casson fluid in a porous microtube with electro kinetic effects associated with the applied magnetic field. The exact analytical solutions the velocity and temperature profiles of non-Newtonian Casson fluid in porous micro-tube related to combining effects of electromagnetohydrodynamics forces and electrokinetic forces have been obtained using a variation of parameter. Temperature and flow distribution characteristics of Casson fluid flow are controlled by the obtruded pressure-gradients, applied a magnetic field and electro-kinetic forces. The exciting features of the electromagnetohydrodynamics flow along with the features of the heat flow rate are examined by variation in the non-dimensional physical arguments on velocity and temperature functions. The effect of the Casson parameter on the velocity and temperature profiles has been investigated analyzed. The fluid flow rate and the heat transfer rate of Casson fluid within porous micro-tube is controlled by the strength applied electric and magnetic field. 

scholarly journals Toward Investigation of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing in an Epicyclic Gearbox

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Berthold ◽  
Hervé Morvan ◽  
Colin Young ◽  
Richard Jefferson-Loveday
Keyword(s):  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Phase Interface ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Jet Engines ◽  
Sector Model ◽  
Bearing Life ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
High Viscosity Oil

High loads and bearing life requirements make journal bearings the preferred choice for use in high-power, planetary gearboxes in jet engines. With the planet gears rotating about their own axis and orbiting around the sun gear, centrifugal forces generated by both motions interact with each other and create complex kinematic conditions. This paper presents a literature and state-of-the-art knowledge review to identify existing work performed on cases similar to external journal bearing oil flow. In order to numerically investigate external journal bearing oil flow, an approach to decompose an actual journal bearing into simplified models is proposed. Preliminary modeling considerations are discussed. The findings and conclusions are used to create a three-dimensional (3D), two-component computational fluid dynamics (CFD) sector model with rotationally periodic boundaries of the most simplistic approximation of an actual journal bearing: a nonorbiting representation, rotating about its own axis, with a circumferentially constant, i.e., concentric, lubricating gap. In order to track the phase interface between the oil and the air, the volume of fluid (VoF) method is used. External journal bearing oil flow is simulated with a number of different mesh densities. Two different operating temperatures, representing low and high viscosity oil, are used to assess the effect on the external flow field behavior. In order to achieve the future objective of creating a design tool for routine use, key areas are identified in which further progress is required.

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