Numerical Studies of Gas-Hydrates Formation and Decomposition in a Geological Reservoir
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Abstract
Abstract Gas hydrates are a significant resource of natural gas exist both on-shore buried under the permafrost and off-shore buried under oceanic and deep lake sediments. Recent investigations consider the possibility of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas (GHG), in gas hydrate reservoirs and at the same time recovering the methane (CH4) from the hydrates. Numerical studies often provide an integrated understanding of the process mechanisms in predicting the potential and economic viability of CH4 gas production and CO2 gas sequestration in a geological reservoir. This work describes a new unified kinetic model which, when coupled with a compositional thermal reservoir simulator, can simulate the dynamics of CH4 and CO2 hydrates formation and decomposition in a geological formation. The kinetic model contains two mass transfer equations: one formation equation transfers gas and water into hydrate and one decomposition equation transfers hydrate into gas and water. The model structure and parameters were investigated in comparison with a previously published model. The proposed kinetic model was evaluated in two case studies. Case 1 was a single well natural hydrate reservoir for studying the kinetics of CH4 and CO2 hydrates decomposition and formation. Case 2 was a multi-well reservoir for studying the unified kinetic model to demonstrate the flexibility of CO2 sequestration in a natural hydrate reservoir with potential enhancement of CH4 recovery. A close agreement was achieved between the present numerical simulation and the published results. The model can be applied in the field scale simulation to predict the dynamics of gas hydrates formation and decomposition processes in a geological reservoir.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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