Evaporation of a stagnant liquid
Abstract
The authors model the evaporation of a stagnant liquid from an initially filled block to a flowing gas stream. The motivation for this problem arises from applications in the drying of porous media, when the pressure is low, and in the recovery of oil from fractured reservoirs by gas injection, when the pressure is high. A similarity solution is developed which accounts for diffusion in both phases. Diffusion in the liquid phase can be important in high-pressure applications, where the gas may dissolve in the liquid phase. The motion of the interface and the evaporation rates are calculated as a function of the various thermodynamic parameters for systems of interest, including n-alkanes, methane, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide. The effect of counter-diffusion is shown to slow the evaporation process, although not by an order of magnitude, in typical cases.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; European Commission (EC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 20076086
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC26-99BC15211
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 39; Journal Issue: 5; Other Information: PBD: May 2000; Journal ID: ISSN 0888-5885
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 02 PETROLEUM; RESIDUAL PETROLEUM; EVAPORATION; FLOW MODELS; GAS INJECTION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; DIFFUSION; RESERVOIR PRESSURE; FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
Citation Formats
Tsimpanogiannis, I N, Yortsos, Y C, and Stubos, A K. Evaporation of a stagnant liquid. United States: N. p., 2000.
Web. doi:10.1021/ie9902434.
Tsimpanogiannis, I N, Yortsos, Y C, & Stubos, A K. Evaporation of a stagnant liquid. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/ie9902434
Tsimpanogiannis, I N, Yortsos, Y C, and Stubos, A K. 2000.
"Evaporation of a stagnant liquid". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/ie9902434.
@article{osti_20076086,
title = {Evaporation of a stagnant liquid},
author = {Tsimpanogiannis, I N and Yortsos, Y C and Stubos, A K},
abstractNote = {The authors model the evaporation of a stagnant liquid from an initially filled block to a flowing gas stream. The motivation for this problem arises from applications in the drying of porous media, when the pressure is low, and in the recovery of oil from fractured reservoirs by gas injection, when the pressure is high. A similarity solution is developed which accounts for diffusion in both phases. Diffusion in the liquid phase can be important in high-pressure applications, where the gas may dissolve in the liquid phase. The motion of the interface and the evaporation rates are calculated as a function of the various thermodynamic parameters for systems of interest, including n-alkanes, methane, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide. The effect of counter-diffusion is shown to slow the evaporation process, although not by an order of magnitude, in typical cases.},
doi = {10.1021/ie9902434},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20076086},
journal = {Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research},
issn = {0888-5885},
number = 5,
volume = 39,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000},
month = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000}
}