Oil reservoirs with low permeability and porosity that are in the middle and late exploitation periods in China＇s onshore oil fields are mostly in the high-water-cut production stage.This stage is associated with sev...Oil reservoirs with low permeability and porosity that are in the middle and late exploitation periods in China＇s onshore oil fields are mostly in the high-water-cut production stage.This stage is associated with severely non-uniform local-velocity flow profiles and dispersed-phase concentration（of oil droplets） in oil-water two-phase flow,which makes it difficult to measure water holdup in oil wells.In this study,we use an ultrasonic method based on a transmission-type sensor in oil-water two-phase flow to measure water holdup in lowvelocity and high water-cut conditions.First,we optimize the excitation frequency of the ultrasonic sensor by calculating the sensitivity of the ultrasonic field using the finite element method for multiphysics coupling.Then we calculate the change trend of sound pressure level attenuation ratio with the increase in oil holdup to verify the feasibility of the employed diameter for the ultrasonic sensor.Based on the results,we then investigate the effects of oildroplet diameter and distribution on the ultrasonic field.To further understand the measurement characteristics of the ultrasonic sensor,we perform a flow loop test on vertical upward oilwater two-phase flow and measure the responses of the optimized ultrasonic sensor.The results show that the ultrasonic sensor yields poor resolution for a dispersed oil slug in water flow（D OS/W flow）,but the resolution is favorable for dispersed oil in water flow（D O/W flow） and very fine dispersed oil in water flow（VFD O/W flow）.This research demonstrates the potential application of a pulsed-transmission ultrasonic method for measuring the fraction of individual components in oil-water two-phase flow with a low mixture velocity and high water cut.展开更多
More and more experimental results show that Darcy’s law is not fully applicable in low permeability media,and non-Darcy flow has been identified.In this paper we reviewed the research of non-Darcy flow experiments i...More and more experimental results show that Darcy’s law is not fully applicable in low permeability media,and non-Darcy flow has been identified.In this paper we reviewed the research of non-Darcy flow experiments in low-permeability media in recent decades,discuss the existence of non-Darcy flow,and summarize its constitutive equations.The reasons for the threshold gradient were also discussed and summarized for the criterion of the critical point of non-Darcy flow.On this basis,the future development of non-Darcy flow experiments in the rock and clay media were discussed,in order to provide a certain reference for subsequent research on seepage laws in low permeability media.展开更多
In the current waste gas sampling of fixed source,it is required that deviation of tracking rate of constant velocity sampling should not be more than 10%.When flow rate of the waste gas is less than 5 m/s,the trackin...In the current waste gas sampling of fixed source,it is required that deviation of tracking rate of constant velocity sampling should not be more than 10%.When flow rate of the waste gas is less than 5 m/s,the tracking rate can not meet this requirement.The sampling of fixed velocity can meet the requirement of particulate matter sampling on gas collection volume at low velocity.Through the comparison of two different methods for the determination of particulate matter in waste gas under the low flow velocity of flue gas,it was found that there were some differences between the fixed velocity measurement and the constant velocity measurement.The results showed that measurement result of the fixed velocity was higher than that of constant velocity measurement under low velocity.At the same time,the deviation of fixed velocity measurement was not obvious under different low velocity.展开更多
The receptivity of plane Poiseuille flow to local single-period micro-vibration disturbances with different phases at the top and bottom walls was investigated through direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional ...The receptivity of plane Poiseuille flow to local single-period micro-vibration disturbances with different phases at the top and bottom walls was investigated through direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Results show that the disturbance presents a symmetrical distribution in the spanwise direction when the micro-vibration on the wall ends, and the initial disturbance velocities and spatial distribution of the disturbance structure are different at the top and bottom walls. The disturbance＇s velocity, amplitude, and high- and low-speed streaks increase with time, and the amplitude of streamwise disturbance velocity is larger than those of spanwise and vertical disturbance velocities. However, no significant Tollmien-Schlichting wave was found in the flow field. The number of disturbance vortex cores gradually increases with the disturbance area. High-speed disturbance fluid concentrates near the wall and its normal velocity largely points to the wall, while low-speed disturbance fluid largely deviates from the wall. Furthermore, the streamwise velocity profiles near the top and bottom walls both become plump because of the existence of the disturbances, and the streamwise velocity profiles show a trend of evolving into turbulent velocity profiles. The shear stress near the wall increases significantly. The local micro-vibration disturbance on the wall in plane Poiseuille flow can induce the development of a structure similar to turbulent spots.展开更多
Various mechanisms are employed to interpret the low water recovery during the shale-gas production period,such as extra-trapped water in the fracture network,water imbibition due to osmotic pressure and capillary pre...Various mechanisms are employed to interpret the low water recovery during the shale-gas production period,such as extra-trapped water in the fracture network,water imbibition due to osmotic pressure and capillary pressure.These lead to the difficulty of water flow,which could be described by lowvelocity non-Darcy's law known as threshold pressure gradient(TPG).In this paper we firstly employ the low-velocity non-Darcy's law to describe the water flow and use Darcy flow accounting for slip flow and free molecular flow mechanisms to model gas flow in the shale formation.The sensitive study using numerical simulation shows that the proposed flow model could model the low fracturing liquid recovery and that large pseudo TPG leads to lower fracturing liquid recovery.Thus,the proposed model would give new insight to model the low water recovery in shale formations.展开更多
Low-grade diasporic bauxite was treated with hydrocyclone of small cone-angle.The effects of apex diameter,feed pressure and feed concentration on separation indexes were tested,and then the separation process was dis...Low-grade diasporic bauxite was treated with hydrocyclone of small cone-angle.The effects of apex diameter,feed pressure and feed concentration on separation indexes were tested,and then the separation process was discussed by hydrokinetics tentatively.The results show that the increase of apex diameter changes the spacial locality of the envelope of zero vertical velocity, resulting in decrease of the ratio of Al2O3/SiO2 in overflow and increase of the recovery of Al2O3 in underflow,while feed pressure and feed concentration have no remarkable effect on the spacial locality of the envelope of zero vertical velocity,however,the separation indexes are improved by the increase of feed pressure,but are worsened by the increase of feed concentration.展开更多
First, the characteristics of low-velocity conveying of particles having different hardness are experimentally investigated in a horizontal pipeline in terms of flow pattern and pressure drop to show that the slug flo...First, the characteristics of low-velocity conveying of particles having different hardness are experimentally investigated in a horizontal pipeline in terms of flow pattern and pressure drop to show that the slug flow can be classified into two types depending on the settling of particles along the pipeline, and the period is small for slug flow without the settled layer, which is called solitary slug flow. The pressure drop for soft particles is shown to be larger than that for hard particles. Then, experimental results are presented on horizontal fluidized-bed conveying of fine powders to show that air release from the top surface of the conveying channel is an imnortant factor for high mass flow rate of particles.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51527805,11572220 and 41174109)
文摘Oil reservoirs with low permeability and porosity that are in the middle and late exploitation periods in China＇s onshore oil fields are mostly in the high-water-cut production stage.This stage is associated with severely non-uniform local-velocity flow profiles and dispersed-phase concentration（of oil droplets） in oil-water two-phase flow,which makes it difficult to measure water holdup in oil wells.In this study,we use an ultrasonic method based on a transmission-type sensor in oil-water two-phase flow to measure water holdup in lowvelocity and high water-cut conditions.First,we optimize the excitation frequency of the ultrasonic sensor by calculating the sensitivity of the ultrasonic field using the finite element method for multiphysics coupling.Then we calculate the change trend of sound pressure level attenuation ratio with the increase in oil holdup to verify the feasibility of the employed diameter for the ultrasonic sensor.Based on the results,we then investigate the effects of oildroplet diameter and distribution on the ultrasonic field.To further understand the measurement characteristics of the ultrasonic sensor,we perform a flow loop test on vertical upward oilwater two-phase flow and measure the responses of the optimized ultrasonic sensor.The results show that the ultrasonic sensor yields poor resolution for a dispersed oil slug in water flow（D OS/W flow）,but the resolution is favorable for dispersed oil in water flow（D O/W flow） and very fine dispersed oil in water flow（VFD O/W flow）.This research demonstrates the potential application of a pulsed-transmission ultrasonic method for measuring the fraction of individual components in oil-water two-phase flow with a low mixture velocity and high water cut.
基金This study was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China(No.2018CFB258)State Key Laboratory of Groundwater Protection and Utilization of Coal Mining(SHJT-17-42.9)College Student Innovation Project of Yangtze University(No.2019428 and No.2019422).
文摘More and more experimental results show that Darcy’s law is not fully applicable in low permeability media,and non-Darcy flow has been identified.In this paper we reviewed the research of non-Darcy flow experiments in low-permeability media in recent decades,discuss the existence of non-Darcy flow,and summarize its constitutive equations.The reasons for the threshold gradient were also discussed and summarized for the criterion of the critical point of non-Darcy flow.On this basis,the future development of non-Darcy flow experiments in the rock and clay media were discussed,in order to provide a certain reference for subsequent research on seepage laws in low permeability media.
基金Supported by the Shihezi Science and Technology Plan(2018JZ08)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21667026)
文摘In the current waste gas sampling of fixed source,it is required that deviation of tracking rate of constant velocity sampling should not be more than 10%.When flow rate of the waste gas is less than 5 m/s,the tracking rate can not meet this requirement.The sampling of fixed velocity can meet the requirement of particulate matter sampling on gas collection volume at low velocity.Through the comparison of two different methods for the determination of particulate matter in waste gas under the low flow velocity of flue gas,it was found that there were some differences between the fixed velocity measurement and the constant velocity measurement.The results showed that measurement result of the fixed velocity was higher than that of constant velocity measurement under low velocity.At the same time,the deviation of fixed velocity measurement was not obvious under different low velocity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51179075)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BK20131256)
文摘The receptivity of plane Poiseuille flow to local single-period micro-vibration disturbances with different phases at the top and bottom walls was investigated through direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Results show that the disturbance presents a symmetrical distribution in the spanwise direction when the micro-vibration on the wall ends, and the initial disturbance velocities and spatial distribution of the disturbance structure are different at the top and bottom walls. The disturbance＇s velocity, amplitude, and high- and low-speed streaks increase with time, and the amplitude of streamwise disturbance velocity is larger than those of spanwise and vertical disturbance velocities. However, no significant Tollmien-Schlichting wave was found in the flow field. The number of disturbance vortex cores gradually increases with the disturbance area. High-speed disturbance fluid concentrates near the wall and its normal velocity largely points to the wall, while low-speed disturbance fluid largely deviates from the wall. Furthermore, the streamwise velocity profiles near the top and bottom walls both become plump because of the existence of the disturbances, and the streamwise velocity profiles show a trend of evolving into turbulent velocity profiles. The shear stress near the wall increases significantly. The local micro-vibration disturbance on the wall in plane Poiseuille flow can induce the development of a structure similar to turbulent spots.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.1217020361).
文摘Various mechanisms are employed to interpret the low water recovery during the shale-gas production period,such as extra-trapped water in the fracture network,water imbibition due to osmotic pressure and capillary pressure.These lead to the difficulty of water flow,which could be described by lowvelocity non-Darcy's law known as threshold pressure gradient(TPG).In this paper we firstly employ the low-velocity non-Darcy's law to describe the water flow and use Darcy flow accounting for slip flow and free molecular flow mechanisms to model gas flow in the shale formation.The sensitive study using numerical simulation shows that the proposed flow model could model the low fracturing liquid recovery and that large pseudo TPG leads to lower fracturing liquid recovery.Thus,the proposed model would give new insight to model the low water recovery in shale formations.
基金Project(2005CB623701)supported by the National Basic Research Program of China
文摘Low-grade diasporic bauxite was treated with hydrocyclone of small cone-angle.The effects of apex diameter,feed pressure and feed concentration on separation indexes were tested,and then the separation process was discussed by hydrokinetics tentatively.The results show that the increase of apex diameter changes the spacial locality of the envelope of zero vertical velocity, resulting in decrease of the ratio of Al2O3/SiO2 in overflow and increase of the recovery of Al2O3 in underflow,while feed pressure and feed concentration have no remarkable effect on the spacial locality of the envelope of zero vertical velocity,however,the separation indexes are improved by the increase of feed pressure,but are worsened by the increase of feed concentration.
文摘First, the characteristics of low-velocity conveying of particles having different hardness are experimentally investigated in a horizontal pipeline in terms of flow pattern and pressure drop to show that the slug flow can be classified into two types depending on the settling of particles along the pipeline, and the period is small for slug flow without the settled layer, which is called solitary slug flow. The pressure drop for soft particles is shown to be larger than that for hard particles. Then, experimental results are presented on horizontal fluidized-bed conveying of fine powders to show that air release from the top surface of the conveying channel is an imnortant factor for high mass flow rate of particles.
