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Hydrate Production Performance Analysis with Multi-Well, Plate-Type Apparatus Using Depressurization and Thermal Methods  

Lee, Youngsoo (Department of Geoenvironmental Eng., Hanyang University)
Wang, Jihoon (Department of Geoenvironmental Eng., Hanyang University)
Park, Jungkyoon (Department of Geoenvironmental Eng., Hanyang University)
Sung, Wonmo (Department of Geoenvironmental Eng., Hanyang University)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.47, no.1, 2009 , pp. 133-140 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the experimental study to analyze the pressure and production behavior using depressurization and thermal methods in order to evaluate the hydrate productivity in the 2-D multi-well, plate-type apparatus which has 80 md permeability and 30% hydrate saturation. Injecting methane gas through multi-well allowed to set up the highly saturated hydrate system and combining two different sorts of sands made possible to build up the low permeability system. In this system, both depressurization and electric stimulation methods were applied. When operating pressure was low, according to the depressurization experiments results, the gas recovery was high, however strong pulses which appeared at initial stage of production would damage the operation system. Moreover, cases that hydrate reformed have occurred by endothermic reaction. We have conducted experiments four and six times for the depressurization magnitudes of 140 psi and 320 psi, respectively, to analyze production behavior for the method more in detail. For the cases that the depressurization magnitude was set as 140 psi, the unstable period appears in the results, but stabilized soon. In the experiment results for 320 psi the discontinuous and intermittent behavior has been observed. Thermal stimulation experiments was conducted with depressurizing 80 psi which is the case that shows stable behavior and low recovery. In the results, the gas recovery was high and the energy efficiency was low for long stimulating time. The energy efficiency and gas recovery increased for the soaking time of 1 minute after 2 minute-preheating. In the cases of which the soaking time exceeds 1 minute, energy loss by long soaking time caused low gas recovery and poor energy efficiency.
Keywords
Hydrate; Depressurization; Electric Stimulation; Recovery; REER;
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