Petroleum Science >2020, Issue 6: 1-16 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-020-00461-x
Phase behavior of heavy oil–solvent mixture systems under reservoir conditions Open Access
文章信息
作者:Xiao-Fei Sun, Zhao-Yao Song, Lin-Feng Cai, Yan-Yu Zhang & Peng Li
作者单位:
Affiliations
School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
Xiao-Fei Sun, Lin-Feng Cai, Yan-Yu Zhang & Peng Li
Nanjing Air Fuel Co., Ltd., Nanjing, 211113, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Zhao-Yao Song
Corresponding author
Correspondence to Xiao-Fei Sun.
投稿时间:2019-8-13
引用方式:Sun, X., Song, Z., Cai, L. et al. Phase behavior of heavy oil–solvent mixture systems under reservoir conditions. Pet. Sci. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-020-00461-x
文章摘要
A novel experimental procedure was proposed to investigate the phase behavior of a solvent mixture (SM) (64 mol% CH4, 8 mol% CO2, and 28 mol% C3H8) with heavy oil. Then, a theoretical methodology was employed to estimate the phase behavior of the heavy oil–solvent mixture (HO–SM) systems with various mole fractions of SM. The experimental results show that as the mole fraction of SM increases, the saturation pressures and swelling factors of the HO–SM systems considerably increase, and the viscosities and densities of the HO–SM systems decrease. The heavy oil is upgraded in situ via asphaltene precipitation and SM dissolution. Therefore, the solvent-enriched oil phase at the top layer of reservoirs can easily be produced from the reservoir. The aforementioned results indicate that the SM has promising application potential for enhanced heavy oil recovery via solvent-based processes. The theoretical methodology can accurately predict the saturation pressures, swelling factors, and densities of HO–SM systems with various mole fractions of SM, with average error percentages of 1.77% for saturation pressures, 0.07% for swelling factors, and 0.07% for densities.
关键词
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Heavy oil;Solvent mixture;PR-EOS;Phase behavior;Pressure–volume–temperature (PVT)