Non-isothermal, compressible gas flow for the simulation of an enhanced gas recovery application

Autores: N. Böttcher, A.-K. Singh, O. Kolditz, R. Liedl
Localización: Journal of computational and applied mathematics, ISSN 0377-0427, Vol. 236, Nº 18, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: FEMTEC 2011: 3rd International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, May 9-13, 2011), págs. 4933-4943
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2011.11.013
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Resumen
- In this work, we present a framework for numerical modeling of CO2 injection into porous media for enhanced gas recovery (EGR) from depleted reservoirs. Physically, we have to deal with non-isothermal, compressible gas flows resulting in a system of coupled non-linear PDEs. We describe the mathematical framework for the underlying balance equations as well as the equations of state for mixing gases. We use an object-oriented finite element method implemented in C++. The numerical model has been tested against an analytical solution for a simplified problem and then applied to CO2 injection into a real reservoir. Numerical modeling allows to investigate physical phenomena and to predict reservoir pressures as well as temperatures depending on injection scenarios and is therefore a useful tool for applied numerical analysis.