Experimental data on the displacement of a gas from a porous medium by a gas

In connection with the exploitation of gas-condensate deposits by the method of the reverse injection of a dry gas, the article gives the results of an experimental investigation of the displacement of a gas by a gas, carried out in tubular models of homogeneous porous media with differing permeabilities.     

Dispersion coefficient with the displacement of a gas from a porous medium by a gas

The article gives the dependence of the dispersion coefficient on the Péclet number, obtained with the analysis of experimental data on the displacement of a gas by a gas from a porous medium of varying permeability.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladkoi Mekhaniki i Teknicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 142–145, July–August, 1975.The authors are grateful to N. P. Baturina and L. N. Demidova for their aid in carrying out and analyzing the experiments, and to V. M. Ryzhik for evaluating the results of the work.     

Micromechanics of residual saturation formation during immiscible displacement in a porous medium

The process of displacement of a nonwetting fluid has been studied experimentally on a transparent model of a porous medium for various percolation velocities in the stable front regime, when the viscosity of the displacing fluid is greater than that of the fluid displaced. The flow structures in the final displacement regime, when the nonwetting phase is distributed in the pore space in the form of individual drops or ganglia, have been visually investigated. Imbibition is numerically modeled on a two-dimensional network model with allowance for various microdisplacement mechanisms. The effect of the initial displacing phase saturation on the magnitude and structure of the residual displaced fluid saturation is demonstrated. The fractal dimensionality of the displacement boundary is measured.Novosibirsk. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.3, pp. 116–121, May–June, 1994.     

Barothermal effect in the displacement of oil from a porous medium

The formation of the temperature field due to the barothermal effect when oil is displaced from a porous medium by water is investigated in the piston displacement and two-phase flow approximations. The approach of the displacement front to the outlet from the porous medium leads to a sharp increase in temperature and the temperature anomalies are observed to depend on the saturation.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.3, pp. 104–109, May–June, 1992.     

Stability of a stationary steam-water front in a porous medium

The instability of a plane front between two phases of the same fluid (steam and water) in a porous medium is considered. The configuration is taken to be initially stationary with the more dense phase overlying the less dense phase. The frontal region is assumed sharp, so that macroscopic boundary conditions can be utilized. This assumption precludes the existence of dispersion instabilities. The stabilizing influence of phrase transition as well as the implication of different macroscopic pressure boundary conditions on the stability of the front are discussed and illustrated.     

Stability of miscible fluid displacement in a porous medium

Summary The stability of miscible fluid displacement through porous media has been investigated when concentration induced density and viscosity gradients are present. The dependence of Rayleigh's number on the horizontal planform of cellular motion is established and it is shown that the Rayleigh and wave numbers interact in a nonlinear fashion and hence have to be treated as two independent parameters in the analysis of stability process.Übersicht Untersucht wird die Stabilität der Bewegung mischbarer Flüssigkeiten durch ein poröses Medium bei konzentrationsbedingten Dichte- und Viskositätsgradienten. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Rayleigh-Zahl und der horizontalen Planheit der Zellbewegung wird aufgezeigt und nachgewiesen, daß die Rayleigh-und Wellenzahlen sich nichtlinear beeinflussen und folglich als zwei unabhängige Parameter der Stabilitäts-analyse zu betrachten sind.

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Stabilität der verschiebung mischbarer flüssigkeiten in einem porösen medium

     

Influence of the structure of a porous medium on the residual gas saturation in the case of capillary displacement by a liquid

A model of a porous medium consisting of randomly branching conical pores is used to investigate the quasistatic displacement of gas by a wetting liquid without application of an external pressure. Allowance is made for the circumstance that in the capillary process all the pores have at least one-sided permeability for the liquid phase. An expression is obtained that relates the residual gas saturation to the parameters which characterize the structure of the pores and the wetting properties of the system. Two new characteristics of the pore space are introduced — the branching parameter and the opening angle of the pores — and the influence of these parameters on the residual saturation is investigated. It is shown that for individual classes of natural media the residual gas saturation depends only on the porosity and the contact angle of wetting.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 128–133, September–October, 1981.     

Fingering associated with immiscible displacement in a two-layer porous medium

The effect of capillary cross flows on the structure of the displacement front in a two-layer porous medium with different layer permeabilities is examined. It is shown that capillary cross flows along the curved displacement front may lead to stabilization of the displacement. Approximate expressions are obtained for the limiting finger length and the oil displacement coefficient at the moment of breakthrough of the water as functions of the displacement parameters and the form of the functional parameters of the two-phase flow in the porous medium; the results obtained are compared with the results of numerical calculations and the experimental data.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 98–104, January–February, 1991.     

One-dimensional simulation of viscous fluid displacement from a porous medium with consideration of lateral inflow

A one-dimensional model of fluid displacement in a porous medium is discussed with consideration of lateral inflow. The time period required for the complete displacement of an initially injected fluid from a region is studied. Some numerical results obtained for two formulations of the problem are given; these results are in good agreement with the estimates considered in this paper. The problem under study is of interest in practice for enhancing the oil recovery from oil fields.     

Imaging of gas flow through a porous medium from a fuel cell bipolar plate by laser-induced fluorescence

The flow in a PEM fuel cell bipolar plate with a diagonal channel structure and across a carbon paper backing layer has been experimentally studied. To examine the flow inside the plate, a liquid analogue preserving dynamic similarity has been used, applying laser-induced fluorescence. This analogy, however, cannot be used to study the flow through the carbon paper, because gas and liquid surface tension are not equivalent and their flow through a porous medium will be different. For this analysis this paper proposes as a novel application, the use of acetone vapor planar induced fluorescence. With this technique, image sequences have been obtained to visualize the gas crossing the backing layer while the plate was filled with acetone-seeded air. It has been demonstrated that the pattern of the flow emerging from the diffusion layer follows that of the pressure distribution in the plate. Hence, even an apparently non-uniform velocity distribution of the reactant gases in the plate could result in an acceptable distribution over the catalyzed electrode if the pressure field is sufficiently smooth.     

Nonequilibrium adsorption of a radioactive gas in a porous medium

An analytical solution is obtained to a system of equations describing the nonequilibrium adsorption of a radioactive gas, which is moving with a constant velocity in a semi-infinite, sorbing medium, for a boundary condition depending arbitrarily on the time. An investigation is made of the case of the nonequilibrium adsorption of a motionless gas. The solution is also investigated for a boundary condition in the form of a δ-function. It is shown that, in distinction from equilibrium adsorption, in the medium there are propagated, generally speaking, two maxima of the concentration, one of which arrives at a given point without a lag, while the second lags. Approximate solutions are obtained for strongly washed-out and δ-shaped pulses.     

Problem of propagation of a gas fracture in a porous medium

The problem of gas fracture formation in a porous medium is investigated. An inertialess viscous polytropic gas flow along the fracture is considered. The assumption of small fracture width with respect to the height and length makes it possible to adopt the vertical plane cross-section hypothesis on the basis of which the dependence of the gas pressure inside the fracture on its width can be reduced to a linear law. Initially, the soil surrounding the fracture is soaked with oil-bearing fluid. During fracturing the reservoir gas penetrates into the soil mass and displaces the fluid. A closed system of equations, which describes the evolution of the fracture opening, the depth of gas penetration into the reservoir, and the gas velocities inside the fracture, is constructed. The limiting regimes of gas seepage into the surrounding reservoir are considered and a one-parameter family of self-similar solutions of the system is given for each. The asymptotics of the solution in the neighborhood of the fracture nose is investigated and analytic expressions for the fracture length are obtained. The solution of the problem of gas fracture is compared with the hydraulic fracturing problem in an analogous formulation within the framework of the plane cross-section hypothesis.     

Motion of a gas mixture through a porous medium with sorption

Solutions are investigated of a system of linear partial differential equations describing the motion of a gaseous (liquid) mixture through an undeformable homogeneous porous medium with sorption at interfaces between gaseous (liquid) and solid phases, the kinetics of which are described by a linear equation. If the porous medium consists of spherical granules, the problem is solved in quadratures. For the case of symmetric granules with arbitrary symmetry parameter, various approximate solutions are obtained; first and central moments are used as criteria for the accuracy of the approximations.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 95–100, September–October, 1970.     

Diffusion and adsorption of a radioactive gas in a porous medium

The results of solving the one-dimensional problem of the motion of a pulse of radioactive gas, carried through a porous medium by a stream of inert carrier with constant velocity, are generalized by the case of taking diffusion processes into account. For a delta-shaped input pulse, the solution is obtained of a system of equations which describes the migration of the pulse, taking diffusion washout and nonequilibrium adsorption into account. It is shown that in the case of equilibrium adsorption the time of appearance of the concentration maximum at the adsorber outlet depends on the decay constant and the coefficient of diffusion. Approximate solutions for strong- and weak-nonequilibrium adsorption and in the case of weak diffusion are considered. An estimate is carried out of the maximum magnitude of the diffusion coefficient, when its effect can be neglected.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 85–90, September–October, 1976.The authors thank A. N. Gudkova for discussing the work.     

Numerical study of single-phase gas filtration in a porous medium

This paper describes a method for numerical solution of single-phase nonstationary gas filtration in a porous medium. Linearization of the classical Leibenzon equation is performed. To solve the resulting linear equation, an efficient numerical algorithm was constructed without saturation over spatial variables and time.