Numerical study of enhanced oil recovery using in situ oxy-Combustion in a porous combustion tube

Mohamed Hamdy; Mohamed Mahmoud; Olakane Aladeb; Esmail M.A. Mokheimer

doi:10.1115/1.4047308

Numerical study of enhanced oil recovery using in situ oxy-Combustion in a porous combustion tube

Mohamed Hamdy, Mohamed Mahmoud, Olakane Aladeb, Esmail M.A. Mokheimer^*

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Abstract

In situ combustion (ISC) in a one-dimensional combustion porous tube has been modeled numerically and presented in this article. The numerical model has been developed using the CMG STARS (2017.10) software and it was used to model especial cases for validation against published experimental data. A comprehensive chemical reaction scheme has been developed and used to simulate the ISC process in the lab scale. Moreover, co-injection of oxygen with carbon dioxide (O₂/CO₂); and co-injection of enriched air (O₂/N₂) have been further investigated. In the case of using (O₂/N₂) as an oxidizer, increasing the oxygen ratio from 21% to 50% leads to increasing the oil recovery factor from 31.66% to 66.8%, respectively. In the case of using (O₂/CO₂) as an oxidizer, increasing the oxygen ratio from 21% to 50% leads to increasing the oil recovery factor from 35.77% to 70.3%, respectively. It was found that the co-injection of (O₂/CO₂) gives higher values of the oil recovery factor compared with that given when oxygen-enriched air (O₂/N₂) is injected for ISC. The change in the produced cumulative hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide is considered small whether using (O₂/CO₂) or (O₂/N₂) as an oxidizer.

Original language	English
Article number	122305
Journal	Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME
Volume	142
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4047308
State	Published - Dec 2020

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Funding Information:
The authors of this article highly appreciate and acknowledge the support provided by the DSR of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) through the Internal Funded Project No. DF181017. The authors would also like to acknowledge the funding support provided by the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE).

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Keywords

Carbon dioxide
Enhanced oil recovery
Fuel combustion
Heavy oil
In situ combustion
Numerical simulation
Petroleum engineering

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Geochemistry and Petrology

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Numerical study of enhanced oil recovery using in situ oxy-Combustion in a porous combustion tube

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