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Methods of Improving Operational Reliability of Oil Well Casing

  • Sergey A. Dolgikh;Irek I. Mukhamatdinov
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2024
  • Oil well casing leak is caused by contact of casing outer surface with formation electrolyte. It is usually associated with an aquifer with a high salt content or absence of a cement ring behind the casing. The only way to reduce external casing corrosion is through cathodic protection. Through cathodic polarization of casing structure, electron content in crystal lattice and electron density will increase, leading to a potential shift towards the cathodic region. At Tatneft enterprises, cathodic protection is carried out according to cluster and individual schemes. The main criterion for cathodic protection is the size of protective current. For a casing, the protective current is considered sufficient if measurements with a two-contact probe show that the electric current directed to the casing has eliminated all anode sites. To determine the value of required protective current, all methods are considered in this work. In addition, an analysis of all methods used to determine the minimum protective current of the casing is provided. Results show that the method of measuring potential drop along casing is one of the most reliable methods for determining the value of protective current.

Investigation of the Cause of High Vibration in a Low Pressure Turbine Casing with Manufacturing Defects by Frequency Response Analysis (주파수 응답해석을 통한 제작공차를 가지는 저압터빈 케이싱의 고진동 원인 규명)

  • Youn, Hee-Chul;Woo, Chang-Ki;Hwang, Jai-Kon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.463-468
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    • 2015
  • High vibration of a low pressure (LP) turbine casing caused safety problems and life at the facility it was housed in. The main focus of this study was the cause of the high vibration in a low pressure turbine casing with manufacturing defects by frequency response analysis, compared with the results of experiments. Therefore, excited accelerations were obtained from the LP casing fundamental, and frequency responses were analyzed. The measurement and the modal analysis showed that the natural frequency of the LP turbine casing was 61.26 Hz and the excited frequency of the turbine rotor was 60.25 Hz. The manufacturing defect caused a decrease in the casing natural frequency and resulted in the high vibration of the casing because it moved close to the resonant frequency.

Performance Enhancement of a Low Speed Axial Compressor Utilizing Simultaneous Tip Injection and Casing Treatment of Groove Type

  • Taghavi-Zenouz, Reza;Behbahani, Mohammad Hosein Ababaf
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2017
  • Performance of a low speed axial compressor is enhanced through a proper configuration of blade row tip injection and casing treatment of groove type. Air injectors were mounted evenly spaced upstream of the blade row within the casing groove and were all aligned parallel to the compressor axis. The groove, which covers all the blade tip chord length, extends all-round the casing circumference. Method of investigation is based on solution of the unsteady form of the Navier-Stokes equations utilizing $k-{\omega}$ SST turbulence model. Extensive parametric studies have been carried out to explore effects of injectors' flow momentums and yaw angles on compressor performance, while being run at different throttle valve setting. Emphasis has been focused on situations near to stall condition. Unsteady numerical analyses for untreated casing and no-injection case for near stall condition provided to discover two well-known criteria for spike stall inception, i.e., blade leading edge spillage and trailing edge back-flow. Final results showed that with only 6 injectors mounted axially in the casing groove and at yaw angle of 15 degrees opposite the direction of the blade row rotation, with a total mass flow rate of only 0.5% of the compressor main flow, surprisingly, the stall margin improves by 15.5%.

Mathematical Modeling on the Corrosion Behavior of the Steel Casing and Pipe in Cathodic Protection System (음극방식 시스템에서의 압입관과 배관의 부식거동에 관한 수학적 모델링)

  • Kim Y.S.;Li S.Y.;Park K.W.;Jeon K.S.;Kho Y.T.
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.40-46
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    • 1998
  • Mathematical modeling on the corrosion of the steel casing and main pipe due to the protection current resulting from a cathodic protection system was carried out using boundary element method. The model is consisted of Laplace's equation with non-linear boundary conditions(Tafel equations) and the iterative technique to determine the miexed potential of the steel casing. The model is applied to the normal steel casing section as well as abnormal one with defects such as metal touch and insulation defects. From the modeling procedure, we can calculate the potential distributions and current density distributions of the system. The theoretical results of the qualitatiive corrosion aspect along the steel casing and main pipe agree well with the experimental results within the experimental conditions studied.

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Analysis on Geo-stress and casing damage based on fluid-solid coupling for Q9G3 block in Jibei oil field

  • Ji, Youjun;Li, Xiaoyu
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.677-686
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    • 2018
  • Aimed at serious casing damage problem during the process of oilfield development by injecting water, based on seepage mechanics, fluid mechanics and the theory of rock mechanics, the multi-physics coupling theory was also taken into account, the mathematical model for production of petroleum with water flooding was established, and the method to solve the coupling model was presented by combination of Abaqus and Eclipse software. The Q9G3 block in Jibei oilfield was taken for instance, the well log data and geological survey data were employed to build the numerical model of Q9G3 block, the method established above was applied to simulate the evolution of seepage and stress. The production data was imported into the model to conduct the history match work of the model, and the fitting accuracy of the model was quite good. The main mechanism of casing damage of the block was analyzed, and some wells with probable casing damage problem were pointed out, the displacement of the well wall matched very well with testing data of the filed. Finally, according to the simulation results, some useful measures for preventing casing damage in Jibei oilfield was proposed.

Study on vibration characteristics of low pressure turbine hood resonance in a 500MW thermal power plant (500MW 화력발전소 저압터빈 Hood 공진 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Cheul-Whan;Cho, Seong-Tae;Koo, Jae-Raeyang;Kim, Hyoung-Suk
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2013
  • In this research paper, we study on how to decrease the high vibration of turbine hood casings which are main facilities of power generation industry. Cause of Standard coal-fired power 500MW facilities turbine hoods' high vibration is that Natural frequency of hood casing designed in near domain frequency, when they are making hoods. We investigate to reduce high vibration at hood casing. We use FEM method to found how to avoid resonance, and test to confirm that our FEM result. We Finally attach minium mass plate at hood casing to avoid resonance and high vibration reduce lower $100{\mu}m$.

Study on flows by turbofan without scroll casing (스크롤 케이싱이 없는 터보팬에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jae Won;Park, Jin Won;Oh, Jung Su;Ahn, Eun Young
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.12a
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    • pp.590-595
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    • 2004
  • Turbo fan as an air moving device is widely used for its silent characteristics and high efficiency relative to the other centrifugal multi blade impeller. In general, turbo fan is installed with a scroll casing for energy conversion from kinetic one to pressure energy. However, a turbo fan without scroll casing is considered as a present model that is proposed model for compact design of a product In detail, the model has only 4 cutoffs as guiders for 4 separated outlets. Specially, equal distribution of flow rate generated by the model blower is main interest in this investigation. The optimal position of the guider is found by reducing abnormal flows such as reverse flow in each outlet.

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Numerical and Experimental Study on the Surge Performance Improvement by the Bleed Slot Casing of a Centrifugal Compressor (서지성능 향상을 위한 원심압축기의 Bleed Slot Casing의 설계변수에 대한 해석 및 시험 평가)

  • Kim, Hong-Won;Chung, Jae-Hoon;Ryu, Seung-Hyup;Lee, Geun Sik
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 2015
  • The primary design goal of a compressor is focused on improving efficiency. Secondary objective is to widen the operating range of compressor. This paper presents a numerical and experimental investigation of the influence of the bleed slot on the operating range for the 1.2 MW class centrifugal compressor installed in a turbocharger. The main design parameters of the bleed slot casing are upstream slot position, inlet pipe slope, downstream slot position and width. The DOE(design of experiment) method was carried out to optimize the casing design. Numerical analyses were done by the commercial code ANSYS-CFX based on the three dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Results showed that efficiency and pressure ratio increased as the downstream slot position and width were smaller and the upstream position was located away from the impeller inlet. Experimental works were also done with and without the bleed slot casing. The simulation results were in good agreement with the test data. Enhancement of both the surge margin up to 26.5% and the pressure ratio with the optimized bleed slot design were achieved, compared with the surge margin of only 6.6% without the bleed slot casing.

Noise Prediction of HRSG for Gas Turbine (복합발전용 배열회수보일러의 소음예측)

  • 남경훈;박석호;김백영;김원일
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.1116-1122
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    • 1999
  • HRSG, which is one of main components of the combined cycle power plant,is composed of an inlet duct, a main body and casing, an outlet duct and a stack. It is important to design HRSG wihtin the allowable noise limit. For this purpose, it is necessary to analyze and predict the noise reduction and radiation at HRSG. In this paper, the technology for the noise prediction at each part of HRSG has been based on the empirical and field data, and also the HRSG noise prediction program has been developed. In order to verify the developed technology and program a field test is conducted. The results of noise prediction show good agreement with the measured.

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Estimation of Appropriate Reinforcement Length of Casing for the Pile of Pile Bent System through Numerical Analysis (수치해석을 통한 단일형 현장타설말뚝 외부강관의 적정 보강길이 산정)

  • Yang, Wooyeol;Kim, Wanho;Lee, Kangil
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.5-15
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    • 2021
  • One of the construction methods applied as a pier foundation type is a single type cast-in-place pile. In applying a pile bent system as a foundation type, the main concern in designing can be said to secure the lateral bearing capacity of pile structure in system. In addition, to increase the rigidity of the pile structure, a method of increasing the lateral bearing capacity by reinforcing the pile structure with a casing has been used. However, although the reinforcing effect and appropriate reinforcing length of casing may vary depending on the soil conditions, there is insufficient studies on this, and for this reason, the entire pile structure in a pile bent system is reinforced with a casing, in the field. In addition, if the length of the entire pile is reinforced with a casing, it may lead to delays in construction and increase in construction costs. That is, in order to more effectively reinforce the pile structure with a casing, it is necessary to study the lateral bearing characteristics of the reinforced pile structure in system. And it should be determined the appropriate reinforcing length of the casing from the evaluated bearing characteristics. Therefore, in this study, the lateral bearing characteristics of piles applied with the reinforcing length of casing for each condition were evaluated through a numerical analysis. And, based on the analysis results, the appropriate reinforcing length of casing was proposed. As a result of the study, it was found that in order to effectively increase the lateral bearing capacity of pile structure, the reinforcing length of casing should be applied twice the influence range of the bending behavior of the pile, 1/β.