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- Title
Phase behaviour modelling of Athabasca bitumen for in situ combustion applications.
- Authors
Alizadeh, Ahmad; Moore, Robert Gordon; Mehta, Raj; Nourozieh, Hossein
- Abstract
Phase behaviour modelling of reservoir fluid is a fundamental step for reservoir simulation. Furthermore, as the complexity of the recovery process increases, the fluid model plays a more important role in the reliability of the simulation outputs. Although the in situ combustion enhanced oil recovery method (ISC) is one of the most complex recovery techniques available in the petroleum engineering literature, for most of the simulation jobs related to this elaborate process only simple and rudimentary fluid characterization layouts are considered. In this work, the principal fluid properties of Athabasca bitumen with regard to the ISC process are recognized, extracted from the literature, validated for consistency, and used for the development of an inclusive and accurate fluid model. Then the fluid model is fully developed while considering the ISC reaction kinetics so that the model has both accuracy, indispensable for phase behaviour modelling, and consistency, essential for the reactions definitions.
- Subjects
BITUMEN; COMBUSTION; TECHNICAL literature; CHEMICAL kinetics; PETROLEUM engineering; PROPERTIES of fluids
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2020, Vol 98, Issue 1, p404
- ISSN
0008-4034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cjce.23627