Viscosity Modeling of Solvent-Water-Heavy Oil/Bitumen Systems under Reservoir Conditions with an Equation of State (EOS)–Based Framework
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Abstract
Summary In this work, we propose a new framework based on equation of state (EOS) for accurately and dynamically modeling the viscosity of solvent-water-heavy oil/bitumen systems as a function of thermal energy, solvent dissolution, and water concentration, respectively. The aqueous/liquid/vapor (ALV) and liquid/vapor (LV) phase equilibria are quantified by integrating the Peng-Robinson (PR) EOS with binary interaction parameters (BIPs) and modified alpha functions by treating the heavy oil/bitumen as either a single pseudocomponent (PC) or multiple PCs. This framework utilizes the volume translation (VT) strategy, effective density, and six widely used mixing rules (i.e., Arrhenius’ mixing rule, Cragoe’s mixing rule, power-law mixing rule, double-log mixing rule, Lobe’s mixing rule, and Shu’s mixing rule) to reproduce the experimentally measured viscosity ranging from 0.7 cp to 566.0 cp at pressures of 0.9 MPa to 5.0 MPa and temperatures of 298.2 K to 463.3 K, respectively. Among these mixing rules, the volume-based and weight-based power-law and the weight-based Cragoe’s mixing rules show superior performance. A comparable reduction in average absolute relative deviation (AARD) is observed in water-containing systems, with the power-law mixing rule reaching its minimum of 9.1% using four PCs. Adding water to a solvent-heavy oil/bitumen mixture can result in either an increase or decrease in viscosity, primarily depending on thermal energy and solvent dissolution. When it comes to the viscosity of a mixture at LV equilibria, as opposed to ALV equilibria, water concentration in feed has a significant effect in reducing the mixture viscosity. It has been discovered that heavier solvents have a superior capacity for diluting heavy oil/bitumen at the same solvent concentration, and water has the same ability for reducing mixture viscosity when it is in liquid phase. At a higher temperature, water as a vapor demonstrates a greater capacity in diluting heavy oil/bitumen than some solvents [e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2) and propane (C3H8)]. Not only can such a newly proposed framework be used to dynamically and accurately predict the viscosity for the aforementioned mixtures under various conditions, but it can also be seamlessly integrated with any reservoir simulators to accurately evaluate and optimize the performance of a hybrid solvent-steam process in a given heavy oil reservoir.
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