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- Title
Gas flow regimes judgement in nanoporous media by digital core analysis.
- Authors
Wenhui Song; Hua Liu; Weihong Wang; Jianlin Zhao; Hai Sun; Dongying Wang; Yang Li; Jun Yao
- Abstract
A method to judge shale gas flow regimes based on digital core analysis is proposed in this work. Firstly, three-dimensional shale digital cores in an anonymous shale formation in the Sichuan Basin are reconstructed by a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm based on two-dimensional Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images. Then a voxel-based method is proposed to calculate the characteristic length of the three-dimensional shale digital core. The Knudsen number for three-dimensional shale digital cores is calculated by the ratio of the molecular mean free path to the characteristic length and is used to judge the flow regimes under different reservoir conditions. The results indicate that shale gas flow regimes are mainly located at the slip flow and transition flow region. Furthermore, adsorption has no obvious influence on the free gas flow regimes. Because adsorption only exists in organic pores, three-dimensional inorganic pores and organic pores in the Haynesville shale formation are reconstructed by a MCMC algorithm based on two-dimensional SEM images. The characteristic lengths of the three-dimensional inorganic pores and three-dimensional organic pores are both calculated and gas flow regimes in organic pores and inorganic pores are judged.
- Subjects
HAYNESVILLE Shale; SHALE gas; GAS flow; SHALE; MARKOV chain Monte Carlo; KNUDSEN flow; SLIP flows (Physics); TRANSITION flow
- Publication
Open Physics, 2018, Vol 16, Issue 1, p448
- ISSN
2391-5471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/phys-2018-0062