A dynamic transient flow analysis method considering complex factors such as the cyclic injection and production history in a gas field storage facility was established in view of the limitations of the existing metho...A dynamic transient flow analysis method considering complex factors such as the cyclic injection and production history in a gas field storage facility was established in view of the limitations of the existing methods for transient flow analysis and the characteristics of the injection-production operation of strongly heterogeneous gas reservoirs, and the corresponding theoretical charts were drawn. In addition, an injection-production dynamic transient flow analysis model named "three points and two stages" suitable for an underground gas storage(UGS) well with alternate working conditions was proposed. The "three points" refer to three time points during cyclic injection and production, namely, the starting point of gas injection for UGS construction, the beginning and ending points of the injection-production analysis stage;and the "two stages" refer to historical flow stage and injection-production analysis stage. The study shows that the dimensionless pseudo-pressure and dimensionless pseudo-pressure integral curves of UGS well flex downward in the early stage of the injection and production process, and the dimensionless pseudo-pressure integral derivative curve is convex during the gas production period and concave during the gas injection period, and the curves under different flow histories have atypical features. The new method present in this paper can analyze transient flow of UGS accurately. The application of this method to typical wells in Hutubi gas storage shows that the new method can fit the pressure history accurately, and obtain reliable parameters and results.展开更多
In China, the quantity of farmer's grain storage covers about 40% of the total grain yield every year. While, the losses of farms' grain storage are up to 8%, which is due to the lack of grain storage facility and t...In China, the quantity of farmer's grain storage covers about 40% of the total grain yield every year. While, the losses of farms' grain storage are up to 8%, which is due to the lack of grain storage facility and technology. The losses of farmer's grain storage could reach nearly 20 million tons every year. In this paper, the current situation and development of grain storage technology and facility for Chinese farmers were presented. And a series of policy and research work for reducing the losses of farms' grain storage was introduced. The large scale farmers are now developing quickly in China, the new storage warehouse and mechanized facility should be developed adaptively. So, the new storage technology and policy to meet the need of large scale farmers were also introduced in this paper.展开更多
In recent years,the safety of oil and gas storage and transportation facilities has been paid more attention by the state and enterprises due to frequent accidents.The oil and gas storage and transportation facilities...In recent years,the safety of oil and gas storage and transportation facilities has been paid more attention by the state and enterprises due to frequent accidents.The oil and gas storage and transportation facilities safety courses in China University of Petroleum(Beijing)includes“Engineering mechanics”,“Strength design of pipelines and tanks”and“Safety and integrity management of oil and gas storage and transportation facilities”.The three courses lack relevance and the teaching mode is too rigid,resulting in students losing their initiative in learning.If students can’t use the knowledge flexibly,it will affect the achievement of the objectives of the training program.Therefore,oil and gas storage and transportation facilities safety courses are reformed,training plans are adjusted and teaching methods are improved.The practice shows that the reform enriches the teaching content,improves the teaching quality,stimulates classroom activity and gets a good evaluation of students.The reform of safety courses has a certain significance for cultivating compound talents who have the ability to solve practical problems in engineering.展开更多
Remote sensing data is a cheap form of surficial geoscientific data,and in terms of veracity,velocity and volume,can sometimes be considered big data.Its spatial and spectral resolution continues to improve over time,...Remote sensing data is a cheap form of surficial geoscientific data,and in terms of veracity,velocity and volume,can sometimes be considered big data.Its spatial and spectral resolution continues to improve over time,and some modern satellites,such as the Copernicus Programme’s Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellites,offer a spatial resolution of 10 m across many of their spectral bands.The abundance and quality of remote sensing data combined with accumulated primary geochemical data has provided an unprecedented opportunity to inferentially invert remote sensing data into geochemical data.The ability to derive geochemical data from remote sensing data would provide a form of secondary big geochemical data,which can be used for numerous downstream activities,particularly where data timeliness,volume and velocity are important.Major benefactors of secondary geochemical data would be environmental monitoring and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in geochemistry,which currently entirely relies on manually derived data that is primarily guided by scientific reduction.Furthermore,it permits the usage of well-established data analysis techniques from geochemistry to remote sensing that allows useable insights to be extracted beyond those typically associated with strictly remote sensing data analysis.Currently,no generally applicable and systematic method to derive chemical elemental concentrations from large-scale remote sensing data have been documented in geosciences.In this paper,we demonstrate that fusing geostatistically-augmented geochemical and remote sensing data produces an abundance of data that enables a more generalized machine learning-based geochemical data generation.We use gold grade data from a South African tailing storage facility(TSF)and data from both the Landsat-8 and Sentinel remote sensing satellites.We show that various machine learning algorithms can be used given the abundance of training data.Consequently,we are able to produce a high resolution(10 m grid size)gold concentration map of the TSF,which demonstrates the potential of our method to be used to guide extraction planning,online resource exploration,environmental monitoring and resource estimation.展开更多
In this study,we numerically investigate the influence of hysteretic stress path behavior on the seal integrity during underground gas storage operations in a depleted reservoir.Our study area is the Honor Rancho Unde...In this study,we numerically investigate the influence of hysteretic stress path behavior on the seal integrity during underground gas storage operations in a depleted reservoir.Our study area is the Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility in Los Angeles County(California,USA),which was converted into an underground gas storage facility in 1975 after 20 years of oil and gas production.In our simulations,the geomechanical behavior of the sand reservoir is modeled using two models:(1)a linear elastic model(non-hysteretic stress path)that does not take into consideration irreversible deformation,and(2)a plastic cap mechanical model which considers changes in rock elastic properties due to irreversible deformations caused by plastic reservoir compaction(hysteretic stress path).It shows that the irreversible compaction of the geological layer over geologic time and during the reservoir depletion can have important consequences on stress tensor orientation and magnitude.Ignoring depletion-induced irreversible compaction can lead to an over-estimation of the calculation of the maximum working reservoir pressure.Moreover,this irreversible compaction may bring the nearby faults closer to reactivation.However,regardless of the two models applied,the geomechanical analysis shows that for the estimated stress conditions applied in this study,the Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility is being safely operated at pressures much below what would be required to compromise the seal integrity.展开更多
New-generation synchrotron light sources are being designed and operated worldwide to provide brighter radiation by reducing the beam emittance to X-ray diffraction limits.Intra-beam scattering(IBS)and Touschek scatte...New-generation synchrotron light sources are being designed and operated worldwide to provide brighter radiation by reducing the beam emittance to X-ray diffraction limits.Intra-beam scattering(IBS)and Touschek scattering in such facilities are significant and require attention because of their ultra-low emittance.Therefore,cure strategies need to be carefully studied to obtain highquality photon beams.For the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Upgrade(SSRF-U),a candidate lattice of the storage ring,reaching the soft X-ray diffraction limit,was designed and presented for the first time in this study.The emittance growth and beam lifetime in the SSRF-U storage ring were studied using particle simulations for a series of different machine configurations.The gains with RF frequencies of 100 MHz and 500 MHz were compared.Along with a better filling pattern,a more suitable RF frequency was adopted in the SSRF-U.The variations in the equilibrium beam emittance with beam coupling and bunch-lengthening were identified using simulations.Optimal beam coupling and required bunch-lengthening for the SSRF-U storage ring were thus determined.The fitness of the beam energy in the SSRF-U was subsequently assessed using the obtained parameters.Additionally,the Touschek scattering and beam lifetime were calculated,and an acceptable total beam lifetime was obtained.展开更多
Korean academic libraries are facing a serious space shortage problem due to the inability to uphold the rapidly increasing amount of printed materials despite having expanded the number of physical facilities. Data c...Korean academic libraries are facing a serious space shortage problem due to the inability to uphold the rapidly increasing amount of printed materials despite having expanded the number of physical facilities. Data computerization has been considered as a solution to the issue, but deliberation for the High Density Book Storage System has been on the rise because of its impressive method of preserving printed materials in a realistic facility. Despite the different methods of print material storage, Korean academic libraries have largely focused on investing in the least efficient method of compact shelving to solve this issue. It is hypothesized that the misuse of funds on inefficient systems is occurring due to the lack of knowledge about the high-density book storage systems like the Harvard model. In order to propose a realistic solution to the academic library space shortage crisis on a logical basis, it is imperative that a study of academic librarians is conducted to investigate their knowledge on such efficient storage systems.展开更多
The business of the Arctic has received increased attention owing to climate change.However,resource development and the use of waterways threaten the fragile Arctic ecology.The indigenous people of the Arctic have ac...The business of the Arctic has received increased attention owing to climate change.However,resource development and the use of waterways threaten the fragile Arctic ecology.The indigenous people of the Arctic have acquired a vast amount of traditional knowledge about coexisting in harmony with nature over the course of many years.Herein,five types of fish storage facilities that are commonly used by Arctic indigenous people and their working mechanisms are described.The traditional knowledge of the Arctic indigenous people is practically applied in Arctic fish storage systems,which are still common,effective,and environmentally friendly.The traditional fish storage facilities of the aborigines are of significance because they promote the sustainable development of the Arctic.展开更多
Evolution in geoscientific data provides the mineral industry with new opportunities.A direction of geochemical data generation evolution is towards big data to meet the demands of data-driven usage scenarios that rel...Evolution in geoscientific data provides the mineral industry with new opportunities.A direction of geochemical data generation evolution is towards big data to meet the demands of data-driven usage scenarios that rely on data velocity.This direction is more significant where traditional geochemical data are not ideal,which is the case for evaluating unconventional resources,such as tailing storage facilities(TSFs),because they are not static due to sedimentation,compaction and changes associated with hydrospheric and lithospheric processes(e.g.,erosion,saltation and mobility of chemical constituents).In this paper,we generate big secondary geochemical data derived from Sentinel-2 satellite-remote sensing data to showcase the benefits of big geochemical data using TSFs from the Witwatersrand Basin(South Africa).Using spatially fused remote sensing and legacy geochemical data on the Dump 20 TSF,we trained a machine learning model to predict in-situ gold grades.Subsequently,we deployed the model to the Lindum TSF,which is 3 km away,over a period of a few years(2015-2019).We were able to visualize and analyze the temporal variation in the spatial distributions of the gold grade of the Lindum TSF.Additionally,we were able to infer extraction sequencing(to the resolution of the data),acid mine drainage formation and seasonal migration.These findings suggest that dynamic mineral resource models and live geochemical monitoring(e.g.,of elemental mobility and structural changes)are possible without additional physical sampling.展开更多
The round-beam operation presents many benefits for scientific experiments regarding synchrotron radiation and the weak-ening influences of intra-beam scattering in diffraction-limited synchrotron light sources.A roun...The round-beam operation presents many benefits for scientific experiments regarding synchrotron radiation and the weak-ening influences of intra-beam scattering in diffraction-limited synchrotron light sources.A round-beam generation method based on the global setting of skew quadrupoles and the application of a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm was pro-posed in this study.Two schemes,including large-emittance coupling introduced via betatron coupling and vertical disper-sion,were explored in a candidate lattice for an upgrade-proposal of the Shanghai synchrotron radiation facility.Emittance variations with lattice imperfections and their influence on the beam dynamics of beam optic distortions were investigated.The results demonstrated that a precise coupling control ranging from 10 to 100%was achieved under low optical distortion,whereas full-coupling generation and its robustness were achieved by our proposed method by adjusting the skew quadrupole components located in the dispersion-free sections.The Touschek lifetime increased by a factor of 2–2.5.展开更多
基金Supported by the CNPC Major Scientific and Technological Project(2019B-3204)PetroChina Major Scientific and Technological Project(kt2020-16-01)。
文摘A dynamic transient flow analysis method considering complex factors such as the cyclic injection and production history in a gas field storage facility was established in view of the limitations of the existing methods for transient flow analysis and the characteristics of the injection-production operation of strongly heterogeneous gas reservoirs, and the corresponding theoretical charts were drawn. In addition, an injection-production dynamic transient flow analysis model named "three points and two stages" suitable for an underground gas storage(UGS) well with alternate working conditions was proposed. The "three points" refer to three time points during cyclic injection and production, namely, the starting point of gas injection for UGS construction, the beginning and ending points of the injection-production analysis stage;and the "two stages" refer to historical flow stage and injection-production analysis stage. The study shows that the dimensionless pseudo-pressure and dimensionless pseudo-pressure integral curves of UGS well flex downward in the early stage of the injection and production process, and the dimensionless pseudo-pressure integral derivative curve is convex during the gas production period and concave during the gas injection period, and the curves under different flow histories have atypical features. The new method present in this paper can analyze transient flow of UGS accurately. The application of this method to typical wells in Hutubi gas storage shows that the new method can fit the pressure history accurately, and obtain reliable parameters and results.
文摘In China, the quantity of farmer's grain storage covers about 40% of the total grain yield every year. While, the losses of farms' grain storage are up to 8%, which is due to the lack of grain storage facility and technology. The losses of farmer's grain storage could reach nearly 20 million tons every year. In this paper, the current situation and development of grain storage technology and facility for Chinese farmers were presented. And a series of policy and research work for reducing the losses of farms' grain storage was introduced. The large scale farmers are now developing quickly in China, the new storage warehouse and mechanized facility should be developed adaptively. So, the new storage technology and policy to meet the need of large scale farmers were also introduced in this paper.
文摘In recent years,the safety of oil and gas storage and transportation facilities has been paid more attention by the state and enterprises due to frequent accidents.The oil and gas storage and transportation facilities safety courses in China University of Petroleum(Beijing)includes“Engineering mechanics”,“Strength design of pipelines and tanks”and“Safety and integrity management of oil and gas storage and transportation facilities”.The three courses lack relevance and the teaching mode is too rigid,resulting in students losing their initiative in learning.If students can’t use the knowledge flexibly,it will affect the achievement of the objectives of the training program.Therefore,oil and gas storage and transportation facilities safety courses are reformed,training plans are adjusted and teaching methods are improved.The practice shows that the reform enriches the teaching content,improves the teaching quality,stimulates classroom activity and gets a good evaluation of students.The reform of safety courses has a certain significance for cultivating compound talents who have the ability to solve practical problems in engineering.
基金provided by the Department of Science and Innovation(DSI)-National Research Foundation(NRF)Thuthuka Grant(Grant UID:121,973)DSI-NRF CIMERA.Yousef Ghorbani acknowledges financial support from the Centre for Advanced Mining and Metallurgy(CAMM),a strategic research environment established at the LuleåUniversity of Technology funded by the Swedish governmentWe also thank Sibanye-Stillwater Ltd.For their funding through the Wits Mining Institute(WMI).
文摘Remote sensing data is a cheap form of surficial geoscientific data,and in terms of veracity,velocity and volume,can sometimes be considered big data.Its spatial and spectral resolution continues to improve over time,and some modern satellites,such as the Copernicus Programme’s Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellites,offer a spatial resolution of 10 m across many of their spectral bands.The abundance and quality of remote sensing data combined with accumulated primary geochemical data has provided an unprecedented opportunity to inferentially invert remote sensing data into geochemical data.The ability to derive geochemical data from remote sensing data would provide a form of secondary big geochemical data,which can be used for numerous downstream activities,particularly where data timeliness,volume and velocity are important.Major benefactors of secondary geochemical data would be environmental monitoring and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in geochemistry,which currently entirely relies on manually derived data that is primarily guided by scientific reduction.Furthermore,it permits the usage of well-established data analysis techniques from geochemistry to remote sensing that allows useable insights to be extracted beyond those typically associated with strictly remote sensing data analysis.Currently,no generally applicable and systematic method to derive chemical elemental concentrations from large-scale remote sensing data have been documented in geosciences.In this paper,we demonstrate that fusing geostatistically-augmented geochemical and remote sensing data produces an abundance of data that enables a more generalized machine learning-based geochemical data generation.We use gold grade data from a South African tailing storage facility(TSF)and data from both the Landsat-8 and Sentinel remote sensing satellites.We show that various machine learning algorithms can be used given the abundance of training data.Consequently,we are able to produce a high resolution(10 m grid size)gold concentration map of the TSF,which demonstrates the potential of our method to be used to guide extraction planning,online resource exploration,environmental monitoring and resource estimation.
基金conducted with funding provided by the California Energy Commission under the contract PIR-16-027 for Research on Risk Management Framework for Underground Natural Gas infrastructure in California。
文摘In this study,we numerically investigate the influence of hysteretic stress path behavior on the seal integrity during underground gas storage operations in a depleted reservoir.Our study area is the Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility in Los Angeles County(California,USA),which was converted into an underground gas storage facility in 1975 after 20 years of oil and gas production.In our simulations,the geomechanical behavior of the sand reservoir is modeled using two models:(1)a linear elastic model(non-hysteretic stress path)that does not take into consideration irreversible deformation,and(2)a plastic cap mechanical model which considers changes in rock elastic properties due to irreversible deformations caused by plastic reservoir compaction(hysteretic stress path).It shows that the irreversible compaction of the geological layer over geologic time and during the reservoir depletion can have important consequences on stress tensor orientation and magnitude.Ignoring depletion-induced irreversible compaction can lead to an over-estimation of the calculation of the maximum working reservoir pressure.Moreover,this irreversible compaction may bring the nearby faults closer to reactivation.However,regardless of the two models applied,the geomechanical analysis shows that for the estimated stress conditions applied in this study,the Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility is being safely operated at pressures much below what would be required to compromise the seal integrity.
基金The authors would like to thank Dr.Na Wang and Sai-Ke Tian in IHEP for their useful discussions.
文摘New-generation synchrotron light sources are being designed and operated worldwide to provide brighter radiation by reducing the beam emittance to X-ray diffraction limits.Intra-beam scattering(IBS)and Touschek scattering in such facilities are significant and require attention because of their ultra-low emittance.Therefore,cure strategies need to be carefully studied to obtain highquality photon beams.For the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Upgrade(SSRF-U),a candidate lattice of the storage ring,reaching the soft X-ray diffraction limit,was designed and presented for the first time in this study.The emittance growth and beam lifetime in the SSRF-U storage ring were studied using particle simulations for a series of different machine configurations.The gains with RF frequencies of 100 MHz and 500 MHz were compared.Along with a better filling pattern,a more suitable RF frequency was adopted in the SSRF-U.The variations in the equilibrium beam emittance with beam coupling and bunch-lengthening were identified using simulations.Optimal beam coupling and required bunch-lengthening for the SSRF-U storage ring were thus determined.The fitness of the beam energy in the SSRF-U was subsequently assessed using the obtained parameters.Additionally,the Touschek scattering and beam lifetime were calculated,and an acceptable total beam lifetime was obtained.
文摘Korean academic libraries are facing a serious space shortage problem due to the inability to uphold the rapidly increasing amount of printed materials despite having expanded the number of physical facilities. Data computerization has been considered as a solution to the issue, but deliberation for the High Density Book Storage System has been on the rise because of its impressive method of preserving printed materials in a realistic facility. Despite the different methods of print material storage, Korean academic libraries have largely focused on investing in the least efficient method of compact shelving to solve this issue. It is hypothesized that the misuse of funds on inefficient systems is occurring due to the lack of knowledge about the high-density book storage systems like the Harvard model. In order to propose a realistic solution to the academic library space shortage crisis on a logical basis, it is imperative that a study of academic librarians is conducted to investigate their knowledge on such efficient storage systems.
基金the Impact of Polar Environment Changes to our Country’s Polar Security(Grant no.2019YFC1408203)。
文摘The business of the Arctic has received increased attention owing to climate change.However,resource development and the use of waterways threaten the fragile Arctic ecology.The indigenous people of the Arctic have acquired a vast amount of traditional knowledge about coexisting in harmony with nature over the course of many years.Herein,five types of fish storage facilities that are commonly used by Arctic indigenous people and their working mechanisms are described.The traditional knowledge of the Arctic indigenous people is practically applied in Arctic fish storage systems,which are still common,effective,and environmentally friendly.The traditional fish storage facilities of the aborigines are of significance because they promote the sustainable development of the Arctic.
基金supported by a Department of Science and Innovation(DSI)-National Research Foundation(NRF)Thuthuka Grant(Grant UID:121973)and DSI-NRF CIMERA.
文摘Evolution in geoscientific data provides the mineral industry with new opportunities.A direction of geochemical data generation evolution is towards big data to meet the demands of data-driven usage scenarios that rely on data velocity.This direction is more significant where traditional geochemical data are not ideal,which is the case for evaluating unconventional resources,such as tailing storage facilities(TSFs),because they are not static due to sedimentation,compaction and changes associated with hydrospheric and lithospheric processes(e.g.,erosion,saltation and mobility of chemical constituents).In this paper,we generate big secondary geochemical data derived from Sentinel-2 satellite-remote sensing data to showcase the benefits of big geochemical data using TSFs from the Witwatersrand Basin(South Africa).Using spatially fused remote sensing and legacy geochemical data on the Dump 20 TSF,we trained a machine learning model to predict in-situ gold grades.Subsequently,we deployed the model to the Lindum TSF,which is 3 km away,over a period of a few years(2015-2019).We were able to visualize and analyze the temporal variation in the spatial distributions of the gold grade of the Lindum TSF.Additionally,we were able to infer extraction sequencing(to the resolution of the data),acid mine drainage formation and seasonal migration.These findings suggest that dynamic mineral resource models and live geochemical monitoring(e.g.,of elemental mobility and structural changes)are possible without additional physical sampling.
文摘The round-beam operation presents many benefits for scientific experiments regarding synchrotron radiation and the weak-ening influences of intra-beam scattering in diffraction-limited synchrotron light sources.A round-beam generation method based on the global setting of skew quadrupoles and the application of a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm was pro-posed in this study.Two schemes,including large-emittance coupling introduced via betatron coupling and vertical disper-sion,were explored in a candidate lattice for an upgrade-proposal of the Shanghai synchrotron radiation facility.Emittance variations with lattice imperfections and their influence on the beam dynamics of beam optic distortions were investigated.The results demonstrated that a precise coupling control ranging from 10 to 100%was achieved under low optical distortion,whereas full-coupling generation and its robustness were achieved by our proposed method by adjusting the skew quadrupole components located in the dispersion-free sections.The Touschek lifetime increased by a factor of 2–2.5.