Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
Abstract
The process of water–gas displacement in water–drive gas reservoirs has been always an important research topic. However, knowledge about the flow patterns of water–gas flow under different conditions is insufficient at present. To investigate the variation of the geometry and position of the water–gas interface as well as the water flooding efficiency with time during water–gas displacement, the distribution law of water and gas at the microcosmic scale is simulated and analysed based on the geometric model of a single pore channel abstracted from the parallel tube bundle model and continuous tube bundle model of a porous medium reservoir, with the help of laminar two-phase flow and the level set module of COMSOL Multiphysics. The simulation results show the following: (1) Under the combined effects of the boundary layer effect, interfacial tension and pore diameter changes in water–gas displacement, the shape of the water–gas interface changes from a tongue-shape to a U-shape, during which a series of interface shapes, including a piston shape, finger shape, W-shape and Ω-shape, are observed. In the pore channel, the area of the water phase below the pore channel axial is larger than that above the pore channel axial. (2) The pore-throat ratio has a considerable impact on the shape and location of the water–gas interface as well as the displacement efficiency. When the water–gas displacement is from a small pore-channel to a large one, the displacement efficiency increases as the pore-throat ratio decreases. On the contrary, if the water–gas displacement is from a large pore channel to a small one, the displacement efficiency increases as the pore-throat ratio increases. Numerical simulation can be used to study the shape and location of the water–gas interface as well as the displacement efficiency in pore channels with different scales of diameters.
Subject
Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Fuel Technology,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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