1. Herramienta computacional para diseño y optimización de tratamientos squeeze de inhibición de incrustaciones.
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Leon-Vanegas, Carolina, Vargas-Silva, Diego Armando, Cortes-Correa, Farid Bernardo, and Buendía-Lombana, Hernando
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RADIAL flow , *BARIUM carbonate , *BARIUM sulfate , *FREEWARE (Computer software) , *TREATMENT duration - Abstract
Physicochemical studies of water show that there is currently an encrusting trend in 24 oil fields in Colombia. This implies that the water has a tendency to precipitate different scales, mainly calcium carbonate and barium sulfate. Emerging the need to implement tools that allow avoiding or delaying precipitation and deposition, through the design and optimization of squeeze treatments. Therefore, a mathematical model applicable to sandstone formations was selected, which was validated for linear and radial flow through literature, laboratory and field, allowing to estimate the distribution of the inhibitor along the plug during adsorption, and its subsequent related release with the desorption phenomenon. This methodology was analyzed under conditions of pressure and flow rates present in the field, allowing the prediction of the useful life of the treatment to be estimated, and the effect of the injected pore volumes and production flow rate on the duration of treatment, concluding that high flow rates have a negative effect on the duration of squeeze treatments. Furthermore, the designed tool allows modeling of adsorption and desorption of inhibitors and constitutes a significant contribution to the prevention of damage to the formation caused by inorganic scales, since there is currently no free software for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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