Coupling IPhreeqc with UTCHEM to model reactive flow and transport

Korrani, Aboulghasem Kazemi Nia; Sepehrnoori, Kamy; Delshad, Mojdeh

doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2015.06.004

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“…IPhreeqc offers a wide range of extensive features to combine multidimensional transport simulators with comprehensive geochemistry packages including thermodynamic databases [19,20]. Recent reactive transport simulators that benefited from the IPhreeqc capabilities include the couplings with COMSOL Multiphysics ® (e.g., [19]; [21,22]), OpenGeoSys [23,24] and UTCHEM [25].…”

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Modeling multicomponent ionic transport in groundwater with IPhreeqc coupling: Electrostatic interactions and geochemical reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous domains

Muniruzzaman

Rolle

2016

Advances in Water Resources

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Modeling multicomponent ionic transport in groundwater with IPhreeqc coupling: Electrostatic interactions and geochemical reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous domains

Muniruzzaman

Rolle

2016

Advances in Water Resources

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“…UTCHEM is a compositional simulator capable of simulating different types of EOR processes owing to the provision of four different phases (gas, aqueous, oil, microemulsion) and incorporation of advanced numerical concepts [20]. REVEAL, a full field reservoir expert, is similar to UTCHEM with surfactant phase behavior and mobility control options, permeability reduction and polymer degradation parameters [21]. However, this tool is not well known among professionals and engineers in production areas and the existence of a fourth phase i.e.…”

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“…However, this tool is not well known among professionals and engineers in production areas and the existence of a fourth phase i.e. microemulsion may cause problems in field studies [17,20,21]. As per UTCHEM and REVEAL, the presence of a microemulsion phase is a key parameter to model displacement efficiency, in spite of the fact that microemulsion properties are not generally measured in pilot tests and field operations [18][19][20][21].…”

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“…microemulsion may cause problems in field studies [17,20,21]. As per UTCHEM and REVEAL, the presence of a microemulsion phase is a key parameter to model displacement efficiency, in spite of the fact that microemulsion properties are not generally measured in pilot tests and field operations [18][19][20][21]. Both ECLIPSE and STARS do not consider microemulsion phase as contributor to flooding simulation and represent oil displacement behavior via analyses of relative permeability curves for experimental results [17,22,23].…”

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Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) studies for aqueous Gemini Surfactant-Polymer-Nanoparticle systems

Pal

Mandal²

2020

Preprint

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The article investigates the efficacy of gemini surfactant/polymer/nanoparticle flooding on chemical EOR. Initially, physicochemical behavior of aqueous chemical fluids were investigated via interfacial tension reduction, wettability alteration, adsorption, viscosity moderation and oil displacement experiments. During compositional analysis, Cartesian model with specified grid properties, injection flow-rate, well pattern, and rock-fluid characteristics was developed using CMG-STARS tool. Contour map analyses showed that oil saturation decreased from˜80% (initial) to 31.96%, 30.68% and 29.30% after {14-6-14 GS + chase water}, {14-6-14 GS + PHPA + chase water} and {14-6-14 GS + PHPA + SiO2 chase water} flooding respectively. Tertiary recoveries of 15-19% were achieved, depending on injected fluid composition. Experimental data were history matched via CMOST tool to achieve good matching of simulated results. The CMG flooding simulator provides a holistic approach to investigate oil displacement profiles, assess flooding recovery capabilities with near-accuracy and predict the feasibility of proposed chemical EOR projects.

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“…Computer models for simulating multicomponent reactive solute transport in the subsurface are important tools for many environmental investigations (Berkowitz et al 2016). A number of such models have been developed (e.g., Barry 2008, 2011;Morway et al 2013: Korrani et al 2015Sedighi et al 2016;Šimůnek et al 2016;Wu et al 2016). Steefel et al (2015) provide an overview of several reactive transport models, many of which were developed for specific applications, such as regional scale groundwater transport of contaminants (Morway et al 2013) or analysis of petroleum reservoirs (Korrani et al 2015).…”

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VS2DRTI: Simulating Heat and Reactive Solute Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media

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Haile²,

Parkhurst

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Groundwater

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Variably saturated groundwater flow, heat transport, and solute transport are important processes in environmental phenomena, such as the natural evolution of water chemistry of aquifers and streams, the storage of radioactive waste in a geologic repository, the contamination of water resources from acid-rock drainage, and the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. Up to now, our ability to simulate these processes simultaneously with fully coupled reactive transport models has been limited to complex and often difficult-to-use models. To address the need for a simple and easy-to-use model, the VS2DRTI software package has been developed for simulating water flow, heat transport, and reactive solute transport through variably saturated porous media. The underlying numerical model, VS2DRT, was created by coupling the flow and transport capabilities of the VS2DT and VS2DH models with the equilibrium and kinetic reaction capabilities of PhreeqcRM. Flow capabilities include two-dimensional, constant-density, variably saturated flow; transport capabilities include both heat and multicomponent solute transport; and the reaction capabilities are a complete implementation of geochemical reactions of PHREEQC. The graphical user interface includes a preprocessor for building simulations and a postprocessor for visual display of simulation results. To demonstrate the simulation of multiple processes, the model is applied to a hypothetical example of injection of heated waste water to an aquifer with temperature-dependent cation exchange. VS2DRTI is freely available public domain software.

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Coupling IPhreeqc with UTCHEM to model reactive flow and transport

Cited by 56 publications

References 19 publications

Modeling multicomponent ionic transport in groundwater with IPhreeqc coupling: Electrostatic interactions and geochemical reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous domains

Modeling multicomponent ionic transport in groundwater with IPhreeqc coupling: Electrostatic interactions and geochemical reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous domains

Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) studies for aqueous Gemini Surfactant-Polymer-Nanoparticle systems

VS2DRTI: Simulating Heat and Reactive Solute Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media

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