The Experimental and Numerical Studies on Gas Production from Hydrate Reservoir by Depressurization

A set of experimental system to study hydrate dissociation in porous media is built and some experiments on hydrate dissociation by depressurization are carried out. A mathematical model is developed to simulate the hydrate dissociation by depressurization in hydrate-bearing porous media. The model can be used to analyze the effects of the flow of multiphase fluids, the kinetic process and endothermic process of hydrate dissociation, ice-water phase equilibrium, the variation of permeability, convection and conduction on the hydrate dissociation, and gas and water productions. The numerical results agree well with the experimental results, which validate our mathematical model. For a 3-D hydrate reservoir of Class 3, the evolutions of pressure, temperature, and saturations are elucidated and the effects of some main parameters on gas and water rates are analyzed. Numerical results show that gas can be produced effectively from hydrate reservoir in the first stage of depressurization. Then, methods such as thermal stimulation or inhibitor injection should be considered due to the energy deficiency of formation energy. The numerical results for 3-D hydrate reservoir of Class 1 show that the overlying gas hydrate zone can apparently enhance gas rate and prolong life span of gas reservoir.     

Experimental and Numerical Study of Gel Particles Movement and Deposition in Porous Media After Polymer Flooding

Gel particle, a promising conformance control technology, is recently applying to after-polymer-flooding reservoirs by reusing the remaining polymer in porous media. However, there is no available numerical model which is useful for simulating the conformance control. A series of lab experiments are conducted to explore the main characters of gel particles movements after polymer flooding. Four main mechanisms, namely, swelling, synergy with remaining polymer, shear breaking, and deformation migration, are recognized and described by mathematical formulas. Based on the physical experiments, a numerical model is established to simulate gel particles propagation after polymer flooding. In particular, gel particles are treated as an additional component in aqueous phase. The interaction between the particle gels and the remaining polymer is simplified by aqueous viscosity relationship and particle gel grain size variation. Two transport forms, plugging and deformation migration, are embodied in the model, and the local pressure gradient controls which form the propagation belongs to. The retention of particle gels will cause pore volume decrease and therefore reduce the permeability of thief zones to bypassing water to less swept zones. An iterative method is employed to decouple the gel particle profile control model, which is robust and fairly time-saving. In particular, the flow model is numerically solved by the IMPSAT method and the gel particles continuity equation is explicitly solved by using an operator splitting technique. The newly developed model is validated by history matching results of 1D experiments and actual application case. The results suggest that the presented model is helpful to optimize parameters for profile control for gel particle profile control technology.     

矿用防冲吸能支护构件的数值分析与实验研究

煤矿冲击地压会造成围岩剧烈震动、变形或突发破坏,从而对支护体产生破坏性冲击作用。基于快速吸能让位防冲击支护理念,研制了一种具有特殊形状的防冲击吸能支护构件,可应用于巷道防冲吸能液压支架中。其机理在于利用构件的快速变形让位与吸能过程,缓解支架受到的超额冲击,保护支架不受损坏,从而防止支护体系以及巷道围岩的失稳破坏。文中提出了吸能构件的承载力与吸能量简化公式,采用Abaqus软件计算分析了构件参数设置的可靠性,得到了理想的力-位移曲线、吸能量曲线和屈曲变形模态,并通过实验室准静态压溃试验进行了一定的验证,试验得到吸能构件承载力达2660kN,吸能量达375.56kJ,与预期值非常接近。此构件的设计与研制,为支架的现场应用以及进一步的优化设计提供了一定的参考依据。     

Pore-Scale Numerical Investigation on Chemical Stimulation in Coal and Permeability Enhancement for Coal Seam Gas Production

Permeability is a controlling factor for gas migration in coal seam reservoirs and has invariably been the barrier to economically viable gas production in certain deposits. Cleats are the main conduits for gas flow in coal seams though cleat mineralisation is known to significantly reduce permeability. Cleat demineralisation by the use of acids may enhance the effective cleat aperture and therefore permeability. This modelling study examines how acids transport through coal subject to reactive cleat mineralisation, and develops a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms controlling permeability change from pore scale to sample scale. A novel Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)-based numerical model for the simulation, prediction, and visualisation of the reaction transport is proposed to numerically investigate relationships between physio-chemical changes and permeability during coal stimulation. In particular, the work studies the interaction of acidic fluids (HCl) with reactive mineral (e.g. calcite) and assumed non-reactive mineral (e.g. coal) surfaces, mineral dissolution and mass transfer, and resultant porosity change. The reaction of a calcite cemented core sub-plug from the Bandanna Formation of Bowen Basin (Australia), is used as a study case. LBM simulations revealed a permeability enhancement (27.15 times of the pre-flooding permeability) along the x-axis after 20 min HCl flooding of a \(5.3~\hbox {cm} \times 5.3~\hbox {cm} \times 1.3~\hbox {cm}\) sub-section. The analysis and evaluation of the 4D permeability evolution is conducted as a contribution work for the fluid flow modelling in the subsurface petrophysical conditions, at the micron to centimetre scales. The simulation results demonstrate the proposed algorithm is capable for studies of multiple mineral reactions with disparate reaction rates.     

Experimental Study on the Effect of Gas Adsorption on the Effective Stress of Coal Under Triaxial Stress

Transport in Porous Media - The deformation of coal during the injection of sorptive gases can be classified into two types: deformation due to the pore pressure and the swelling deformation of the...     

输气管路弯头内壁面冲蚀进化的试验和数值模拟研究

砂粒的连续冲击使输气管路弯头内壁面连续不均匀地发生着冲蚀进化现象.本文作者基于3D成像技术精确描述了R/D=1.5弯头内壁冲蚀进化过程,并采用CFD方法对该过程进行了数值模拟研究.结果显示,随着颗粒冲击,磨损严重的区域向弯头圆心角高角度扩散的速度较大;通过修正Schiller Naumann拽力系数模型可较准确地模拟弯头的冲蚀进化过程(平均误差小于0.15 mm).以上工作对管路的完整性评价具有重要意义.     

Experimental and Numerical Study of Paperboard Interface Properties

Laminated paperboard is widely used in packaging products. Interface delamination plays a crucial role in converting paperboard to a carton through the creasing and folding process. Thus, the aim of this study is to experimentally and numerically investigate the interface fracture behavior in pure crack opening mode (mode I) and sliding mode (mode II). Four experimental tests have been evaluated and compared to numerical simulation, namely, the z-directional tensile test (ZDT), double-notch shear test (DNS), double-cantilever beam test (DCB) and end-notched flexure test (ENF). It was shown that, for the paperboard specimens tested, the ZDT test was sufficient to fully characterize the mode I crack growth response. However, the DNS and ENF tests were required to determine the maximum shear stress and the fracture toughness of pure mode II, respectively. Further mixed-mode investigation would enable the analysis of paperboard delamination behavior during the creasing and folding process.     

An Experimental Study on the Effects of Water Content on Coalbed Gas Permeability in Ground Stress Fields

Experimental coal cores were collected from a coalbed of Sihe colliery and Zhaozhuang colliery, Qinshui Basin, China. Their gas effective permeability was studied under effects of water content and effective stress. The experiments were mainly carried out on a self-made ??Triaxial Stress Thermal?Chydrological?Cmechanical Coal Gas Permeameter.?? The results showed that when the temperatures of gas and coal were constant, a negative effect of either water content or effective stress was reported on the gas transportation, i.e., the gas effective permeability decreased with the increasing of water content under constant effective stress and it also decreased as the effective stress increased when the water content was constant. Under experimental conditions as in this study, the effects of water content and effective stress on the gas effective permeability was described by a linear?Cexponential equation, which presented that the gas effective permeability had a linear relationship with the water content and an exponential relationship with the effective stress. The permeation pores were defined as the primary places of transporting the coalbed gas. They were affected by water content and effective stress in different ways. The water content occupied the space of permeation pores, while the effective stress changed the shape of permeation pores. Consequently, the gas effective permeability was also affected by the two aspects.     

腰椎力学分析的数值模拟与实验研究

采用数值模拟和实验测试技术对两种不同内固定法的腰椎模型进行应力和变形分析,基于CT图像建立L4-S1的三维数值模型,经ANSYS计算分析得出五种工况下的终板应力值;在实验中采用了一种薄膜压力测试传感器结合图像处理的方法,提高测试椎间盘压力分布的精度;同时采用数字图像相关技术对腰椎骨上下关节突在承载情况下的空间位移进行了测量,获得了腰椎间盘（L3-L4）在承受轴压、前屈后伸和侧弯情况下的压力分布,以及对应的关节突的位移迹线。结果表明：本研究采用的数值分析技术和实验开发的测试技术可操作性强,精度满足要求,有望在类似的生物力学分析中得到应用。     

Gas Sorption and the Consequent Volumetric and Permeability Change of Coal II: Numerical Modeling

The permeability of coalbed methane reservoirs may evolve during the recovery of methane and injection of gas, due to the change of effective stress and gas adsorption and desorption. Experimental and numerical studies were conducted to investigate the sorption-induced permeability change of coal. This paper presents the numerical modeling part of the work. It was found that adsorption of pure gases on coal was well represented by parametric adsorption isotherm models in the literature. Based on the experimental data of this study, adsorption of pure \(\hbox {N}_2\) was modeled using the Langmuir equation, and adsorption of pure \(\hbox {CO}_2\) was well represented by the N-Layer BET equation. For the modeling of CO \(_2\) & N \(_2\) binary mixture adsorption, the ideal adsorbed solution (IAS) model and the real adsorbed solution (RAS) model were used. The IAS model estimated the total amount of mixture adsorption and the composition of the adsorbed phase based on the pure adsorption isotherms. The estimated total adsorption and adsorbed-phase composition were very different from the experimental results, indicating nonideality of the CO \(_2\) –N \(_2\) –Coal-adsorption system. The measured sorption-induced strain was linearly proportional to the total amount of adsorption despite the species of the adsorbed gas. Permeability reduction followed a linear correlation with the volumetric strain with the adsorption of pure \(\hbox {N}_2\) and the tested CO \(_2\) & N \(_2\) binary mixtures, and an exponential correlation with the adsorption of pure \(\hbox {CO}_2\) .     

Gas Sorption and the Consequent Volumetric and Permeability Change of Coal I: Experimental

Experimental and numerical investigations were conducted to study adsorption and desorption of pure and multicomponent gas on coal, and the sorption-induced volumetric strain and permeability change of the coal. This paper presents the experimental work. Using CO \(_2\) , N \(_2\) , and CO \(_2\) and N \(_2\) binary mixtures of different composition as injection gases, the measurements were conducted on a cylindrical composite coal core at varying pore pressures and constant effective confining pressure. Sorption was measured using a volumetric method. The initial and equilibrium system pressure and gas phase composition were measured. The total amount of adsorption and the composition of the adsorbed phase (for adsorption of binary gas mixtures) were calculated based on material balance. During the process of sorption, the volume of the core was monitored by recording the volume of the water in the confining pressure vessel. Sorption-induced strain was calculated as the ratio of the sorption-induced volumetric change to the initial volume of the core. After adsorption equilibrium was reached, the permeability of the core was measured based on the Darcy equation for gas flow. Sorption and permeability measurements were conducted for each test gas at first increasing and then decreasing pressures. Volumetric strain was only measured while pore pressure increased. To our knowledge, this is the first study measuring adsorption, volumetric strain, and permeability on the same piece of core with the same apparatus.     

类岩石材料力学特性的试验及数值模拟研究

在进行多组不同配比类岩石材料单轴压缩试验和巴西试验的基础上,详细分析了石膏水泥比和石英砂含量对类岩石材料的单轴抗压强度、抗拉强度及弹性模量等力学参数的影响规律,力图找到适合模拟现场砂质泥岩的类岩石材料及配合比。利用颗粒流程序(PFC)模拟,进一步研究了高径比和围压对类岩石材料力学特性的影响。结果表明:随着石膏水泥比的增大,抗压强度和弹性模量均逐渐减小,而抗拉强度逐渐增大;随着石英粉含量的增大,抗压强度和弹性模量均先增大后减小,而抗拉强度则为先减小后增大。结合单轴压缩过程的声发射特征,揭示了裂纹扩展与声发射有密切的关系。PFC2D模拟获得的力学参数与室内试验相近,破裂模式也与实际情况相似。通过尺寸效应的研究可知试样的高径比在2.0~2.5较合理。随着围压的增大,试样的峰值强度、残余强度、峰值应变及弹性模量等力学参数均增大,且围压会改变试样的破裂模式。     

激波驱动下固体颗粒抛撒的实验研究

本文使用阴影照相技术、高速摄像技术及压力测试手段,实验记录和研究了激波与固体颗粒群的作用及激波作用后固体颗粒群的抛撒和云团的形成过程.结果表明:在激波与固体颗粒群作用过程中,存在着清晰的激波透射、反射及绕射现象,同时激波强度在作用后有明显的下降趋势;在固体颗粒抛撒及云团形成过程中,实验发现对同一粒径的颗粒抛撒来说,抛撒的颗粒群质量越大,云团形成的均匀性及稳定性越好,而对不同粒径的颗粒群来说,粒径越大,形成的云.团集中性越强.     

Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Water Effects on Shale Gas Permeability Alteration

Hydraulic fracturing has been recognized as the necessary well completion technique to achieve economic production from shale gas formation. However, following the fracturing, fluid–wall interactions can form a damaged zone nearby the fracture characterized by strong capillarity and osmosis effects. Here, we present a new reservoir multi-phase flow model which includes these mechanisms to predict formation damage in the aftermath of the fracturing during shut-in and production periods. In the model, the shale matrix is treated as a multi-scale porosity medium including interconnected organic, inorganic slit-shaped, and clay porosity fields. Prior to the fracturing, the matrix holds gas in the organic and the inorganic slit-shaped pores, water with dissolved salt in the inorganic slit-shaped pores and the clay pores. During and after fracturing, imbibition causes water invasion into the matrix, and then, the injected water–clay interaction may lead to clay-swelling pressure development due to osmosis. The swelling pressure gives additional stress to slit-shaped pores and cause permeability reduction in the inorganic matrix. We develop a simulator describing a system of three pores, two phases (aqueous and gaseous phases), and three components (\(\hbox {H}_{2}\hbox {O}, \hbox {CH}_{4}\), and salt), including osmosis and clay-swelling effect on the permeability. The simulation of aqueous-phase transport through clay shows that high swelling pressure can occur in clays as function of salt type, salt concentration difference, and clay-membrane efficiency. The new model is used to demonstrate the damage zone characteristics. The simulation of two-phase flow through the shale formation shows that, although fracturing is a rapid process, fluid–wall interactions continue to occur after the fracturing due to imbibition mechanism, which allows water to penetrate into the inorganic pore network and displace the gas in-place near the fracture. This water invasion leads to osmosis effect in the formation, which cause clay swelling and the subsequent permeability reduction. Continuing shale–water interactions during the production period can expand the damage zone further.     

An Experimental and Numerical Study of Calliphora Wing Structure

Experiments are performed to determine the mass and stiffness variations along the wing of the blowfly Calliphora. The results are obtained for a pairs of wings of 10 male flies and fresh wings are used. The wing is divided into nine locations along the span and seven locations along the chord based on venation patterns. The length and mass of the sections is measured and the mass per unit length is calculated. The bending stiffness measurements are taken at three locations, basal (near root), medial and distal (near tip) of the fly wing. Torsional stiffness measurements are also made and the elastic axis of the wing is approximately located. The experimental data is then used for structural modeling of the wing as a stepped cantilever beam with nine spanwise sections of varying mass per unit lengths, flexural rigidity (EI) and torsional rigidity (GJ) values. Inertial values of nine sections are found to approximately vary according to an exponentially decreasing law over the nine sections from root to tip and it is used to calculate an approximate value of Young’s modulus of the wing biomaterial. Shear modulus is obtained assuming the wing biomaterial to be isotropic. Natural frequencies, both in bending and torsion, are obtained by solving the homogeneous part of the respective governing differential equations using the finite element method. The results provide a complete analysis of Calliphora wing structure and also provide guidelines for the biomimetic structural design of insect-scale flapping wings.     

含瓦斯煤单轴压缩的尺度效应实验研究

含瓦斯煤与其它岩石类材料一样,在力学特性等方面具有尺度效应。利用特制的饱和加压装置和电子万能试验机,对不同尺度、不同饱和瓦斯压力下的煤样进行了单轴压缩试验,探讨了煤样变形破坏及强度特性的变化规律。分析表明,煤样抗压强度、弹性模量随瓦斯压力的增大而减小,抗压强度随高径比的增加明显减小,弹性模量随高径比的增加略有提高。利用Weibull模型和线弹性强化理论对含瓦斯煤产生尺度效应的原因进行了合理地解释,为含瓦斯煤样尺度效应在强度表征等方面的深入研究提供了新的实验和理论依据。     

装药比对中心炸药抛撒钨颗粒群影响的实验研究

在炸药抛撒颗粒的过程中,颗粒与炸药质量之比对抛撒颗粒的动能特性有重要影响。对中心为8710药柱,周围为钨颗粒的圆柱形装药进行了实验。实验中装药中心药柱的质量为200g,钨颗粒的质量与药柱的质量比(简称装药比)在2～7之间。实验结果表明,在有效作用距离内(2m～6m)颗粒数密度随装药比的增加呈正比增加;在近距离上(2m,3m),随装药比增大颗粒对纸靶的最大穿深明显下降,但在较远的距离上(4m,5m,6m),各装药颗粒对纸靶的最大穿深比较接近,随装药比增大而下降的规律不明显。颗粒对纸靶的平均穿深随装药比变化的规律与最大穿深相似。纸靶单位面积上的总穿深对装药比不敏感,随装药比的增大略成线性增大的趋势。     

碳纳米管复合橡胶磨损颗粒物影响因素的试验研究

碳纳米管复合橡胶轮胎是一种应用前景非常广阔的新型高性能轮胎,然而碳纳米管复合橡胶轮胎磨损颗粒物(TWPs)安全性隐患为这类轮胎的广泛应用带来了极大的不确定性.采用自行设计的摩擦磨损试验机,研究了碳管含量、负载、滚动速度和滑移率对碳纳米管复合橡胶磨损颗粒物性态的影响,分析了这些因素与磨损颗粒物性态及橡胶磨损机理的关系.结果表明：碳纳米管能够显著增强橡胶耐磨性能并降低胎面温度,增加碳纳米管含量可以有效抑制磨损颗粒物特别是微小颗粒物(≤3μm)数量.碳纳米管可以使复合橡胶硬度增加,使微小磨损颗粒物的增长速率高于未添加CNTs的橡胶.力-化学效应导致的胎面热氧化发黏现象会使磨屑更易团聚粘附在胎面,从而减少微小磨损颗粒物排放.负载变化主要影响胎面磨损形态,速度和滑移率变化主要影响胎面附着的颗粒物数量和状态.研究结果可以为防控碳纳米管复合橡胶因磨损而导致的次生危害提供科学参考.     

A Numerical Study of Microscale Flow Behavior in Tight Gas and Shale Gas Reservoir Systems

Various attempts have been made to model flow in shale gas systems. However, there is currently little consensus regarding the impact of molecular and Knudsen diffusion on flow behavior over time in such systems. Direct measurement or model-based estimation of matrix permeability for these “ultra-tight” reservoirs has proven unreliable. The composition of gas produced from tight gas and shale gas reservoirs varies with time for a variety of reasons. The cause of flowing gas compositional change typically cited is selective desorption of gases from the surface of the kerogen in the case of shale. However, other drivers for gas fractionation are important when pore throat dimensions are small enough. Pore throat diameters on the order of molecular mean free path lengths will create non-Darcy flow conditions, where permeability becomes a strong function of pressure. At the low permeabilities found in shale gas systems, the dusty-gas model for flow should be used, which couples diffusion to advective flow. In this study we implement the dusty-gas model into a fluid flow modeling tool based on the TOUGH+ family of codes. We examine the effects of Knudsen diffusion on gas composition in ultra-tight rock. We show that for very small average pore throat diameters, lighter gases are preferentially produced at concentrations significantly higher than in situ conditions. Furthermore, we illustrate a methodology which uses measurements of gas composition to more uniquely determine the permeability of tight reservoirs. We also describe how gas composition measurement could be used to identify flow boundaries in these reservoir systems. We discuss how new measurement techniques and data collection practices should be implemented in order to take advantage of this method. Our contributions include a new, fit-for-purpose numerical model based on the TOUGH+ code capable of characterizing transport effects including permeability adjustment and diffusion in micro- and nano-scale porous media.