• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.1940-1949
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• 2015

This paper presents an Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) to solve short-term hydrothermal scheduling (STHS) problem with non-convex fuel cost function and a variety of operational constraints related to hydro and thermal units. The operators of the conventional PSO are dynamically controlled using exponential functions for better exploration and exploitation of the search space. The overall methodology efficiently regulates the velocity of particles during their flight and results in substantial improvement in the conventional PSO. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested for STHS of two standard test generating systems while considering several operational constraints like system power balance constraints, power generation limit constraints, reservoir storage volume limit constraints, water discharge rate limit constraints, water dynamic balance constraints, initial and end reservoir storage volume limit constraints, valve-point loading effect, etc. The application results show that the proposed EPSO method is capable to solve the hard combinatorial constraint optimization problems very efficiently.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2017년도 학술발표회
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• pp.189-189
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• 2017

Climate changes have impacted to many sectors including water resources in Vietnam. Vietnam is agricultural development country having more than 6,000 earth dam reservoirs. These reservoirs play a very important role in flow regulation for water supply to economic sectors. In the context of undesirable impacts of climate change such as increasing temparature, evaporation, and changing rainfall and rainfall pattern, water demands and inflow to reservoirs also are being influenced. This leads to changes of resevoir exploitation effects that needs to be assessed for adaptation solutions. This article summarizes evaluations on climate change impacts to 16 reservoirs in 4 regions of North-West, North-East, Central Part, and Central Highland of Vietnam. Research results showed that in the context of climate change, safety of these reservoirs will be decreased from 8% to 20% in both water supply and flood control capacity.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2015

As the exploitation of oil and gas resources advances into deeper waters and harsher environments, the design and analysis of the flexible risers has become the research focus in the offshore engineering filed. Due to the complexity of the components and the sliding between the adjacent layers, the bending response of the flexible risers is highly non-linear. This paper presents the finite element analysis of the flexible risers under bending loads. The detailed finite element model of the flexible riser is established in ABAQUS software. This finite element model incorporates all the fine details of the riser to accurately predict its nonlinear structural behavior. Based on the finite element model, the bending moment-curvature relationships of a flexible riser under various axisymmetric loads have been investigated. The results have been compared with the analytical ones obtained from the literature and good agreements have been found. Moreover, the stress of the tendon armors has been studied. The non-linear relationship between the armor tendons' stress and the bending loads has been obtained.

• Geosystem Engineering
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.318-325
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• 2018

Eight tight sandstone reservoir samples from $He_8$ and $Shan_1$ Formations of the Sulige Gas field were selected to perform gas-water micro-displacement experiment based on authentic sandstone micro-model. The gas pressure-relief experiment was proposed for the first time to simulate the pressure change and gas-water percolation characteristics in the process of gas exploitation. The experiment results show that: (1) In the process of gas accumulation, the gas preferentially flows into the well-connected pores and throats with large radius, but rarely flows into the area without pores and throats. (2) Under sufficient gas drive, the water in pores and throats usually exists in the forms of 'thin water film', 'thick water film', and 'water column', but under insufficient gas drive, gas fails to flow into new pathways in time, so that the reservoirs with large pores and throats are high in water cut. (3) Under the same water saturation, the reservoirs with better petrophysical properties has higher gas recovery factor within unit time. Under the same petrophysical conditions, the reservoirs with lower water saturation show higher gas recovery factor within unit time. The higher the permeability, the stronger the liquid carrying capacity of reservoirs.

• 한국석유지질학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2008

비재래형 탄화수소 자원의 하나인 치밀저류층 내의 천연가스는 중요한 탐사개발 대상이 되고 있다. 치밀가스 저류층은 가스를 배태하고 있는 저류암으로서 투수율이 0.1 md 미만인 저류층을 말한다. 치밀가스 저류층은 광범위하게 두꺼운 층으로 산출되며, 재래형의 가스 집적체와는 달리 과대압력이나 저압력의 비정상적인 압력상태로 나타나는 것이 특징이다. 재래형 가스가 구조트랩이나 층서트랩에서 산출되는 것에 비하여 치밀가스는 이들 트랩들과는 무관하게 산출되고 있다. 치밀저류층에서 가스를 생산하기 위해서는 수압파쇄(hydraulic fracturing)와 같은 인공 자극법에 의해서만 가능하다. 치밀가스 저류층의 최적 생산지역을 스위트 스폿이라고 하며, 생산성을 높이기 위해서는 지질학적 자연균열 상태를 이해하여야 한다. 친환경 연료자원으로 주목을 받고 있는 치밀가스는 탐사기술과 회수방법이 발전함에 따라서 상업적으로 생산되고 있다. 자연균열대를 가로지르는 방향으로 수평시추나 경사시추를 수행할 때 생산성을 극대화할 수 있다. 실제로 미국과 캐나다 등에서는 치밀저류층에서 많은 양의 가스를 생산하고 있으며, 생산량은 해마다 증가하고 있다. 특히, 미국의 치밀사암층에서 생산되는 가스의 경우 1990년에 미국의 총 가스 생산량의 11.1%를 차지하였지만 2005년에는 총 가스 생산량의 24.1%를 차지하고 있다. 국내 대륙붕에서도 치밀가스의 존재 가능성이 제시되고 있으며 이를 개발하기 위해서는 기존의 재래형 가스자원의 탐사 및 개발의 파라다임을 완전히 바꾸는 것이 필요하다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.153-172
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• 2014

In order to investigate the effect of different perforation angles (the angle between the perforation direction and the maximum horizontal principal stress) on the fracture initiation and propagation during hydraulic fracturing of highly deviated well in oil & gas saturated formation, laboratory experiments of the hydraulic fracturing had been carried out on the basis of non-dimensional similar criteria by using 400^3 $mm^3$ cement cubes. A plane fracture can be produced when the perforations are placed in the direction of the maximum horizontal principal stress. When the perforation angle is $45^{\circ}$, the fractures firstly initiate from the perforations at the upper side of the wellbore, and then turn to the maximum horizontal principal stress direction. When the well deviation angle and perforation angle are both between $45^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$, the fractures hardly initiate from the perforations at the lower side of the wellbore. Well azimuth (the angle between the wellbore axis and the maximum horizontal principal stress) has a little influence on the fracture geometries; however it mainly increases the fracture roughness, fracture continuity and the number of secondary fractures, and also increases the fracture initiation and propagation pressure. Oriented perforating technology should be applied in highly deviated well to obtain a single plane fracture. If the well deviation angle is smaller, the fractures may link up.