Simulation of Dynamic Steam-Trap Control Technique - Formulation, Implementation, and Performance Analysis
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Abstract
Abstract Steam-trap subcool is a technique that is used to maintain the energy efficiency of the Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process by most heavy oil producers in Canada. The concept is rather simple, i.e., create a resistance (liquid pool) around the production well to prevent steam from escaping the steam chamber into the production well. A numerical steam-trap based on thermodynamic approach was implemented by Edmunds (1998) and it has been used in simulations with Sink/Source or more advanced wellbore models in commercial codes. In this approach, a hard constraint is solved to guarantee that the bottom-hole temperature is below the water saturation temperature and that the location of the hottest spot along the wellbore is static. Steam-trap is a dynamic process and inflow temperatures can vary significantly along the wellbore according to the local fluid and rock properties along the well. It is highly possible that the location of hottest spot along the well will change frequently with time during SAGD operation. In this study, simulation of a dynamic steam-trap control technique is provided. The location of hottest spot along the wellbore is scanned at every time step. Severe numerical instabilities are observed when the thermodynamic approach is used as a hard constraint. A new constraint based on the total production rate at reservoir condition is introduced. Details of mathematical formulation and the numerical behavior of the new method are discussed in this paper. Several real field models with different wellbore designs (multiple tubing strings) are simulated and the results of the new approach are compared with the thermodynamic approach. Simulation results show that the numerical performance of this new approach is significantly more stable. A time comparison also shows the new constraint outperforms the thermodynamic hard constraint.
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