纳微米非均相专题——孔隙尺度悬浮颗粒滞留规律及渗流场特征

Nanomicron heterogeneous topic——Pore size suspended particle retention law and seepage field characteristics

  • 摘要: 油气田开发是典型的多相渗流过程,注水、气驱、化学驱及压裂等技术都会导致矿物颗粒在储层孔隙中的迁移及堵塞,继而影响储层的动用及最终采收率。因此,研究悬浮颗粒在多孔介质中迁移与滞留过程及流场特征有重要意义。然而,现有针对悬浮颗粒在多孔介质中迁移与滞留的研究主要关注颗粒的迁移和滞留对渗透率的损害,没有体现颗粒运移的过程,也不能反应孔隙网络中颗粒堵塞和流场变化的关系。为探究悬浮颗粒在多孔介质内的流场特征,本研究利用微观可视化模型及微观粒子图像测速技术(Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry,简称为Mirco-PIV)分析了在二维孔隙网络中悬浮颗粒的滞留特征及相互关系,并揭示了流场的变化规律。实验结果表明,初期主通道流速更高,但由于主通道颗粒滞留量(6.5μg·μm-2)比边界区更多(2.4μg·μm-2),颗粒续注入导致主通道流速降低,扰乱原有流场导致“斑”状流场出现,也使主通道(110μm·s-1降低至41μm·s-1)在中期流速低于边界区(67μm·s-1降低至45μm·s-1)。这也表明高流速区更有效的输运了颗粒。滞留的分布特征观察到主要滞留在了边壁附近,较高浓度条件下还会在主通道内产生聚集现象,这些都导致了对孔隙的有效封堵。本文首次提供了颗粒和流场互动过程,给出二维孔隙条件下可视化的直接的证据。此外,本文还得出了颗粒分布特征,并总结出滞留靠近边壁、流动有效半径变窄及主通道高浓度的聚集问题,是导致封堵的核心机理,为进一步颗粒滞留理论的完善提供参考。

     

    Abstract: The development of oil and gas field is a typical multi-phase percolation process. Water injection, gas flooding, chemical flooding, fracturing and other technologies will lead to the migration and plugging of mineral particles in the reservoir pores, and then affect the exploitation of the reservoir and the ultimate recovery efficiency. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the migration and flow field of suspended particles during their migration and retention in porous media. However, existing studies on the migration and retention of suspended particles in porous media mainly focus on the damage to permeability caused by the migration and retention of particles, which do not reflect the process of particle migration, nor can they reflect the relationship between particle blockage and flow field changes in pore networks. The microscopic visualization model and the Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry (Mirco-PIV) technology were used to analyze the particle retention and flow field changes in the main channel and boundary region of the two-dimensional porous glass model, and the laws were summarized. The experimental results show that the initial flow velocity in the main channel is higher, but because the particle retention in the main channel is more than that in the boundary zone, the continuous injection of particles leads to the decrease of the flow velocity in the main channel, disturbing the original flow field and resulting in "spot" flow field. It also reduced the main channelto a lower flow rate in the medium term than the boundary zone. This also indicates that particles are transported more efficiently in the high flow zone. The distribution characteristics of the retention observed are mainly retention near the side wall, and aggregation occurs in the main channel under relatively high concentration conditions, all of which lead to effective plugging of the pores. The phenomenon of retention, aggregation and interweaving was not considered in the previous plugging experiments. In this paper, for the first time, the interaction process between particles and flow field is provided, and direct evidence for visualization in two-dimensional conditions is given. In addition, the particle distribution characteristics show that the core mechanism of blockage is observed to be the retention near the side wall, the narrowing of the effective flow radius and the concentration of high concentration in the main channel. The original theory does not cover this problem, and should be revised accordingly in the future. The process and characteristics of suspended particles' retention and flow field in porous media were studied by the combination of microscope and Micro-PIV, and the variation rules were revealed.

     

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