... of nanoparticles along the reservoir during injection phase. The model is developed using material balance and fluid flow in porous media. Several empirical correlations are also adopted to describe the adsorption phenomenon during the nanoparticles flow in the reservoir. Using coreflood experiment data of iron...

... 3D numerical modelling approach is used to simulate, in a single model, the fluid flow, phase behaviour, heat transfer and EM heating in oil sands reservoirs ( Ji et al., 2019 and Ji, 2019 ). The four classical-electromagnetic equations in Maxwell’s principle can be solved by appropriate...

..., the payback period and energy balance increased linearly. oil sand bitumen hydraulic fracturing wellbore region heating thermal expansion coefficient Davletbaev curve 2 complex reservoir EM heating fluid mobility fluid flow electromagnetic heating oil production coefficient Energy Balance...

..., fluids and other reservoir materials impede its passage by providing resistance to the flow. As a result, the intensity of the propagating wave is reduced and the energy is converted to heat. The term electromagnetic heating has been used quite indiscriminately by many researchers and commercial...

... Figure 5 Side View of the conceptual 2D-model for EM heating (ANSYS) coupling with fluid flow (STARS) simulation Figure 6 Oil viscosity-temperature relationship Figure 7 Oil production rate and total from conceptual model of SAGD and EM-SAGD Figure 8 Temperature...

... in a certain volume around the well, with the same intensity of a conventional thermal energy source. The cells of the wells and the simulation mesh are chosen so that the phenomenon of transfer of energy to the formation represents the electromagnetic heating phenomenon. The model proposed in this study...

... of the heat received by the wax over the total emitted electromagnetic energy, which we define as the pig induction factor. Based on our numerical model, we compare the pig induction factor for different coil designs, different hydrocarbon flow rates, and different pig traveling speeds. We find that slower...

... Flow Simulation of Heavy Oil Recovery by Electromagnetic Heating . In SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium . Society of Petroleum Engineers . Chute F.S., and Vermeulen , F.E. , 1978 . Physical Modelling of the Electrical Heating of Tar Sand Deposits- Electrical Properties of Athabasca Oil...

... excitation, heat transfer, mass transfer, Langmuir adsorption, and fluid flow was built. Moreover, some important parameters were set as temperature-dependent to achieve the coupling effects among the multiphysics. Based on the above two models, a fully coupled electromagnetic-thermal-hydraulic-mechanical...

... both magnetic and electric fields need to be calculated. By solving the equations of EM wave propagation and fluid flow in oil sands reservoirs simultaneously, this work provides a fully-implicit modelling method for the EM heating process. The feasibility of EM heating in oil sands is examined in two...

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... simulators because of the limitations in existing multiphysics simulators. Commercial multiphysics simulators lack the ability to model fluid flow in porous media at a reservoir scale and couple it with electromagnetics. On the other hand, commercial reservoir simulators are unable to compute electromagnetic...

.... Recent studies (Carrizales et al . 2008) showed that oil rate can be increased with the application of EM heating for single-phase radial flow. No simulations results or detailed modeling studies have yet been published that completely model the complex interactions of EM energy and multiphase flow...

... to link the reservoir and electromagnetic simulators. Commercial multiphysics simulators lack the ability to model fluid flow in porous media at a reservoir scale and couple it with electromagnetics. On the other hand, commercial reservoir simulators are unable to compute electromagnetic field...

... Abstract Thermal methods based on dielectric heating are of interest in several stimulation and production applications; however, most downhole fluids and rocks have uneven electromagnetic absorption. A potential solution is to create particles that can act as centers of electromagnetic...

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... costs about 5 USD and at the end of 70 days, 320 barrels petroleum can be produced. When 0.5% Fe is added, oil production increased to 440 barrels for the same operational time period. oil sand enhanced recovery Modeling & Simulation flow in porous media Fluid Dynamics Upstream Oil...

... for the variety of problems associated with flow of three-phase, multi-component fluids and heat transfer in porous media. Emag is a product addresses the analysis needs of the low-frequency electromagnetic market from ANSYS [ 9 ]. ANSYS low-frequency electromagnetic analysis products are used for steady-state...

.... , and Johns , R.T. 2010 . Multiphase Fluid Flow Simulation of Heavy Oil Recovery by Electromagnetic Heating . SPE 129730-MS, paper presented at the 17th SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium , 24–28 April 2010 , Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA . CMG STARS User's guide , 2010 . Godard , A. , and Rey...

... through the pore body. On the basis of the simulation work and general concepts presented in this paper, the following conclusions could be made: In an effort to look at the performance of electromagnetic heating in highly viscous bitumen reservoir, the rock and fluid property in the previous model...