A New Mathematical Formulation of the Governing Equations for the Chemical Compositional Simulation

Bakhbergen E. Bekbauov; Aidarkhan Kaltayev; Abdumauvlen Berdyshev

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A New Mathematical Formulation of the Governing Equations for the Chemical Compositional Simulation

Bakhbergen E. Bekbauov·Aidarkhan Kaltayev·Abdumauvlen Berdyshev

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It is the purpose of this work to develop new approach for chemical compositional reservoir simulation, which may be regarded as a sequential method. The development process can be roughly divided into the following two stages: (1) development of a new mathematical formulation for the sequential chemical compositional reservoir simulation, (2) implementation of a sequential solution approach for chemical compositional reservoir simulation based on the formulation described in this paper. This paper addresses the first stage of the development process by presenting a new mathematical formulation of the chemical compositional reservoir flow equations for the sequential simulation. The newly developed mathematical formulation is extended from the model formulation used in existing chemical compositional simulators. During the model development process, it was discovered that the currently used chemical compositional model estimates the adsorption effect on the transport of a component reasonably well but it violates the principle of mass conservation. The energy conservation equation in the currently used chemical compositional model does not consider any change in the effective pore size caused by adsorption, which leads to inconsistency between the overall compositional balance equations and the energy conservation equation by violating conservation of energy. With these partial differential equations as governing equations, several simulators have been developed. In this article, we propose a formulation to model the change in pore volume due to adsorption that satisfies the conservation laws for mass and energy, and allows applying a sequential solution approach.

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Bakhbergen E. Bekbauov, Aidarkhan Kaltayev, Abdumauvlen Berdyshev. 2015-12-27. A New Mathematical Formulation of the Governing Equations for the Chemical Compositional Simulation. https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08170

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