A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses

ABSTRACT To increase heavy oil production, the petroleum industry uses thermal recovery methods, and the steam injection is one of the most common techniques. Steam generated at the surface reaches the oil reservoir through the injection tubing. Heat transfer between the steam and the injection well...

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Autores principales:	Saraiva de Lira Araújo,Sara, Romero,Oldrich Joel
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Tarapacá. 2019
Materias:	Heavy oil steam injection heat transfer ANSYS CFX® 15.0 steam quality
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-330520190004006002020-01-29A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat lossesSaraiva de Lira Araújo,SaraRomero,Oldrich Joel Heavy oil steam injection heat transfer ANSYS CFX® 15.0 steam quality ABSTRACT To increase heavy oil production, the petroleum industry uses thermal recovery methods, and the steam injection is one of the most common techniques. Steam generated at the surface reaches the oil reservoir through the injection tubing. Heat transfer between the steam and the injection well surroundings the tubing is analyzed in this work, the challenge in this process to minimize it. It is presented the three-dimensional simulation of the multiphase turbulent liquid-vapor flow along with a 100 m wellbore domain composed by injection tubing, annular space, casing, and rock formation. With the software ANSYS CFX® 15.0, the response of a low thermal conductivity tubing and formation temperature to steam injection at 80% of quality, injected at two different flow rates, is evaluated. The insulated material tubing (IMT) has the best performance compared to the conventional configuration, for both 1.2 kg/s and 3.3 kg/s flow rates. Additionally, the higher flow rate shows higher steam quality results when using a conventional tubing while maintaining 0.13% more quality at the tubing output.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Tarapacá.Ingeniare. Revista chilena de ingeniería v.27 n.4 20192019-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-33052019000400600en10.4067/S0718-33052019000400600
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topic	Heavy oil steam injection heat transfer ANSYS CFX® 15.0 steam quality
spellingShingle	Heavy oil steam injection heat transfer ANSYS CFX® 15.0 steam quality Saraiva de Lira Araújo,Sara Romero,Oldrich Joel A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
description	ABSTRACT To increase heavy oil production, the petroleum industry uses thermal recovery methods, and the steam injection is one of the most common techniques. Steam generated at the surface reaches the oil reservoir through the injection tubing. Heat transfer between the steam and the injection well surroundings the tubing is analyzed in this work, the challenge in this process to minimize it. It is presented the three-dimensional simulation of the multiphase turbulent liquid-vapor flow along with a 100 m wellbore domain composed by injection tubing, annular space, casing, and rock formation. With the software ANSYS CFX® 15.0, the response of a low thermal conductivity tubing and formation temperature to steam injection at 80% of quality, injected at two different flow rates, is evaluated. The insulated material tubing (IMT) has the best performance compared to the conventional configuration, for both 1.2 kg/s and 3.3 kg/s flow rates. Additionally, the higher flow rate shows higher steam quality results when using a conventional tubing while maintaining 0.13% more quality at the tubing output.
author	Saraiva de Lira Araújo,Sara Romero,Oldrich Joel
author_facet	Saraiva de Lira Araújo,Sara Romero,Oldrich Joel
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title	A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
title_short	A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
title_full	A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
title_fullStr	A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
title_full_unstemmed	A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses
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publisher	Universidad de Tarapacá.
publishDate	2019
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A CFD study of steam injection tubing heat losses

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