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Title: Downhole steam generation: material studies

Abstract

One enhanced oil recovery technique for extracting heavy crude from deep reservoirs by steam at the bottom of an injection well. Development of a downhole steam generator that will produce steam and inject it into formations at depths greater than 2500 feet is one objective of a Department of Energy/Sandia National Laboratories development effort - Project DEEP STEAM. Extensive material studies have been performed in support of Project DEEP STEAM; current efforts are devoted primarily to the selection and evaluation of materials for use in downhole steam generators. This paper presents observations of the performance of candidate metals and refractory ceramics (combustor liners) during tests of two prototypic, high pressure, diesel/air combustion, direct contact, downhole steam generators. The first downhole test of such a generator provides data on the performance of various metals (304L, 310 and 316S stainless steels and plain carbon steel) exposed for several weeks to a warm, aerated saltwater environment. A number of corrosion mechanisms acted to cause severely degraded perforance of some of the metals. Several refractory liner designs were evaluated during ground level tests of a generator having a ceramic-lined combustion chamber. Of the two refractories employed, alumina and silicon carbide, the alumina liners exhibitedmore » more serious surface degradation and corrosion.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5269299
Report Number(s):
SAND-82-0078C; CONF-820510-1
ON: DE82006941
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Spring meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, San Diego, CA, USA, 4 May 1982
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ALUMINIUM OXIDES; PERFORMANCE TESTING; CARBON STEELS; OIL WELLS; STEAM INJECTION; SILICON CARBIDES; STAINLESS STEEL-304; STAINLESS STEEL-310; STAINLESS STEEL-316; STEAM GENERATORS; DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; CORROSION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LINERS; REFRACTORIES; ALLOYS; ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS; BOILERS; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CHROMIUM STEELS; CHROMIUM-NICKEL STEELS; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; DATA; FLUID INJECTION; HEAT RESISTANT MATERIALS; HEAT RESISTING ALLOYS; INFORMATION; IRON ALLOYS; IRON BASE ALLOYS; MATERIALS; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NUMERICAL DATA; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RECOVERY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STAINLESS STEELS; STEELS; TESTING; THERMAL RECOVERY; VAPOR GENERATORS; WELLS; 020300* - Petroleum- Drilling & Production; 360105 - Metals & Alloys- Corrosion & Erosion; 360205 - Ceramics, Cermets, & Refractories- Corrosion & Erosion

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Beauchamp, E. K., Weirick, L. J., and Muir, J. F. Downhole steam generation: material studies. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
Beauchamp, E. K., Weirick, L. J., & Muir, J. F. Downhole steam generation: material studies. United States.
Beauchamp, E. K., Weirick, L. J., and Muir, J. F. 1982. "Downhole steam generation: material studies". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5269299.
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abstractNote = {One enhanced oil recovery technique for extracting heavy crude from deep reservoirs by steam at the bottom of an injection well. Development of a downhole steam generator that will produce steam and inject it into formations at depths greater than 2500 feet is one objective of a Department of Energy/Sandia National Laboratories development effort - Project DEEP STEAM. Extensive material studies have been performed in support of Project DEEP STEAM; current efforts are devoted primarily to the selection and evaluation of materials for use in downhole steam generators. This paper presents observations of the performance of candidate metals and refractory ceramics (combustor liners) during tests of two prototypic, high pressure, diesel/air combustion, direct contact, downhole steam generators. The first downhole test of such a generator provides data on the performance of various metals (304L, 310 and 316S stainless steels and plain carbon steel) exposed for several weeks to a warm, aerated saltwater environment. A number of corrosion mechanisms acted to cause severely degraded perforance of some of the metals. Several refractory liner designs were evaluated during ground level tests of a generator having a ceramic-lined combustion chamber. Of the two refractories employed, alumina and silicon carbide, the alumina liners exhibited more serious surface degradation and corrosion.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982},
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