Fluid Characterization Using an EOS for Compositional Simulation of Enhanced Heavy-Oil Recovery
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Abstract
Abstract Reliable design of solvent injection for enhanced heavy-oil recovery requires accurate representation of multiphase behavior for heavy-oil/solvent mixtures in a wide range of pressure-temperature-composition conditions. Characterization of a heavy oil is more difficult than that of a conventional oil because the former is conducted under more uncertainties in composition and PVT data. Volume-shift parameters are often required to improve density predictions, separately from compositional behavior predictions, in conventional fluid characterization methods (CM). Thermodynamically, however, volumetric behavior predictions (e.g., densities) are consequences of compositional behavior predictions. In this paper, we develop a new fluid characterization method (NM) that gives accurate multiphase behavior representation for heavy-oil/solvent mixtures without using volume-shift parameters. The Peng-Robinson (PR) EOS is used with the van der Waals mixing rules. In the NM, pseudo components are initially assigned critical temperature (TC), critical pressure (PC), and acentric factor (ω) values that are optimized for the PR EOS for accurate phase behavior predictions for n-alkanes from C7 to C100. The subsequent regression process searches for an optimum set of TC, PC, and ω in physically justified directions. The regression algorithm developed does not require user's experience of thermodynamic modeling for robust convergence. The NM also satisfies Pitzer's definition of ω for each component. The NM is compared with the CM in terms of various types of phase diagrams, minimum miscibility pressure calculations, and 1-D oil displacement simulations. Twenty two different reservoir oils are used in the comparisons. Results show that the NM with 11 components gives phase behavior predictions that are nearly identical to those using the CM with 30 components. A 1-D simulation case study presents that the NM can robustly reduce dimensionality of composition space while keeping accurate multiphase behavior predictions along composition paths at different dispersion levels tested. We show that the CM with volume shift can give erroneous phase behavior and oil recovery predictions in compositional simulation. The NM does not require volume shift to achieve accurate predictions of compositional and volumetric phase behaviors. The two types of phase behaviors are properly coupled in the NM.
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