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Development of Multiphase Flow Simulator Using the Fractional Flow Based Approach for Wettability Dependent NAPL Migration

친수성에 의존하는 소수성 액체의 거동을 위한 분율 유동 접근 방식을 이용한 다상 유동 수치 모델링 개발

  • Suk, Hee-Jun (Geologic Environment Division, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources) ;
  • Yeo, In-Wook (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Kang-Kun (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2011.03.11
  • Accepted : 2011.04.22
  • Published : 2011.04.28
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Abstract

The multiphase flow simulator, CHEMPS, was developed based on the fractional flow approach reported in the petroleum engineering literature considering fully three phase flow in physically and chemically heterogeneous media. It is a extension of MPS developed by Suk and Yeh (2008) to include the effect of wettability on the migration of NAPL. The fractional flow approach employs water, total liquid saturation and total pressure as the primary variables. Most existing models are limited to two-phase flow and specific boundary conditions when considering physically heterogeneous media. In addition, these models focused mainly on the water-wet media. However, in a real system, variations in wettability between water-wet and oil-wet media often occur. Furthermore, the wetting of porous media by oil can be heterogeneous, or fractional, rather than uniform due to the heterogeneous nature of the subsurface media and the factors that affect the wettability. Therefore, in this study, the chemically heterogeneous media considering fractional wettability as well as physically heterogeneous media were simulated using CHEMPS. In addition, the general boundary conditions were considered to be a combination of two types of boundaries of individual phases, flux-type and Dirichlet type boundaries.

석유공학분야에서 보고된 분율 흐름 접근 방식을 이용하여 물리적 또는 화학적으로 불균질한 매질에서 완전한 삼상유체를 고려할 수 있는 다상 흐름 수치 모의 프로그램인 CHMPS가 개발되었다. 이 프로그램은 석희준과 G.T. Yeh (2008)에 의해 개발된 MPS을 확장하였는데, 친수성이 NAPL 거동에 미치는 영향을 모의하기 위하여 개발되었다. 대부분 존재하는 모델들은 물리적으로 불균질한 매질을 고려하고 이상흐름과 특정한 경계조건에 국한되어 있다. 게다가 대부분의 모델들은 주로 water-wet 매질에만 국한되어 있다. 그러나 실제 존재하는 시스템에서는 water-wet과 oil-wet 매질 사이의 친수성의 변화는 종종 일어난다 더군다나 기름에 의한 다공성 매질의 젖음은 균등하기 보다는 불균질 또는 부분적일 수 있다. 왜냐하면 친수성에 영향을 미치는 요소들과 지하 매질이 불균질하기 때문이다. 따라서, 이번 연구에서는 물리적으로 불균질한 매질 뿐만 아니라 친수성 변에서 화학적으로 불균질한 매질을 CHEMPS을 활용하여 수치모의 하였다. 그 외에도 개개의 상에 대해서 유량 경계조건 및 고정경계조건의 두 가지 형식의 결합으로 표현되는 일반경계조건이 고려되었다.

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Grant : The GAIA Project

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