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DOI 10.1016/j.cam.2011.11.013
Title (Primary) Non-isothermal, compressible gas flow for the simulation of an enhanced gas recovery application
Author Böttcher, N.; Singh, A.-K.; Kolditz, O. ORCID logo ; Liedl, R.
Source Titel Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Year 2012
Department ENVINF
Volume 236
Issue 18
Page From 4933
Page To 4943
Language englisch
Keywords Carbon dioxide sequestration; Enhanced gas recovery; Numerical simulation; Real gas behavior; Equation of state; Finite element method
Abstract

In this work, we present a framework for numerical modeling of CO2 injection into porous media for enhanced gas recovery (EGR) from depleted reservoirs. Physically, we have to deal with non-isothermal, compressible gas flows resulting in a system of coupled non-linear PDEs. We describe the mathematical framework for the underlying balance equations as well as the equations of state for mixing gases. We use an object-oriented finite element method implemented in C++. The numerical model has been tested against an analytical solution for a simplified problem and then applied to CO2 injection into a real reservoir. Numerical modeling allows to investigate physical phenomena and to predict reservoir pressures as well as temperatures depending on injection scenarios and is therefore a useful tool for applied numerical analysis.
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Böttcher, N., Singh, A.-K., Kolditz, O., Liedl, R. (2012):
Non-isothermal, compressible gas flow for the simulation of an enhanced gas recovery application
J. Comput. Appl. Math. 236 (18), 4933 - 4943 10.1016/j.cam.2011.11.013