Comsol 2D Simulation of Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery by SAGD

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10.2991/icmce-14.2014.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

SAGD, Comsol, Framework, Multiphase Coupling

Abstract

In western Canada, the heavy oil thermal recovery technology SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) has been widely used in heavy oil recovery, and achieved good production effect. In this paper, the engineering background is that during the SAGD process at a Canadian oil sands block, trying to obtain the relevant evaluation and prediction about the steam chamber. Multi-physics flexibility and computational performance of COMSOL gave us the idea to model SAGD one of the popular thermal method of oil recovery. This article focuses on the model framework and the simulation results about the numerical software Comsol in numerical simulation of SAGD process.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bo ZHAO
AU  - Yang LIU
AU  - Yan-Yan LUO
AU  - Guang-Qing ZHANG
PY  - 2014/12
DA  - 2014/12
TI  - Comsol 2D Simulation of Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery by SAGD
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechanics and Civil Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 178
EP  - 180
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmce-14.2014.32
DO  - 10.2991/icmce-14.2014.32
ID  - ZHAO2014/12
ER  -