Viscous Dissipation and Apparent Permeability of Gas Flow in Nanoporous Media
Abstract
The nanopore confinement effect can increase the mobility for gas flow in shale rocks, and the apparent permeability is usually adopted to account for this effect. However, most of the apparent permeability calculation models are derived based on straight channels (capillaries) and neglect the influence of end effect. The end effect is caused by the bending of streamlines which yields more viscous dissipation and additional flow resistance for gas flow in nanoporous media. Here, for the first time the viscous dissipation for gas flow in nanoporous media is analyzed. In addition, an improved apparent permeability calculation model is proposed based on the Beskok-Karniadakis (B-K) model by introducing the influence of end effect, which is characterized by the ratio of the length to the width of a short channel (L/H). The accuracy of this model is validated by lattice Boltzmann simulations of gas flow in three different geometries: an infinite-length straight channel, a finite-length straight channel, and nanoporous media. For the infinite-length straight channel, there is no end effect therefore both the B-K model and the improved model can well predict the apparent permeability. However, for the finite-length straight channel and nanoporous media, the original B-K model overestimates the gas apparentmore »
- Authors:
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- State Energy Center for Shale Oil Research and Development, Beijing (China); Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich (Switzerland)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- State Energy Center for Shale Oil Research and Development, Beijing (China)
- China Univ. of Petroleum, Qingdao (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province; Key Research and Development
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1699456
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1599917
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-19-30105
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9313
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; 51490654; 51504276; 51404291; 51711530131; 51674280; 2018GSF116009
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9313
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES
Citation Formats
Zhao, Jianlin, Kang, Qinjun, Wang, Youping, Yao, Jun, Zhang, Lei, and Yang, Yongfei. Viscous Dissipation and Apparent Permeability of Gas Flow in Nanoporous Media. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1029/2019jb018667.
Zhao, Jianlin, Kang, Qinjun, Wang, Youping, Yao, Jun, Zhang, Lei, & Yang, Yongfei. Viscous Dissipation and Apparent Permeability of Gas Flow in Nanoporous Media. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb018667
Zhao, Jianlin, Kang, Qinjun, Wang, Youping, Yao, Jun, Zhang, Lei, and Yang, Yongfei. Fri .
"Viscous Dissipation and Apparent Permeability of Gas Flow in Nanoporous Media". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb018667. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1699456.
@article{osti_1699456,
title = {Viscous Dissipation and Apparent Permeability of Gas Flow in Nanoporous Media},
author = {Zhao, Jianlin and Kang, Qinjun and Wang, Youping and Yao, Jun and Zhang, Lei and Yang, Yongfei},
abstractNote = {The nanopore confinement effect can increase the mobility for gas flow in shale rocks, and the apparent permeability is usually adopted to account for this effect. However, most of the apparent permeability calculation models are derived based on straight channels (capillaries) and neglect the influence of end effect. The end effect is caused by the bending of streamlines which yields more viscous dissipation and additional flow resistance for gas flow in nanoporous media. Here, for the first time the viscous dissipation for gas flow in nanoporous media is analyzed. In addition, an improved apparent permeability calculation model is proposed based on the Beskok-Karniadakis (B-K) model by introducing the influence of end effect, which is characterized by the ratio of the length to the width of a short channel (L/H). The accuracy of this model is validated by lattice Boltzmann simulations of gas flow in three different geometries: an infinite-length straight channel, a finite-length straight channel, and nanoporous media. For the infinite-length straight channel, there is no end effect therefore both the B-K model and the improved model can well predict the apparent permeability. However, for the finite-length straight channel and nanoporous media, the original B-K model overestimates the gas apparent permeability as it neglects the influence of end effect, while the improved model can still well predict the gas apparent permeability. In summary, the improved apparent permeability calculation model is more reasonable in predicting gas mobility in nanoporous media.},
doi = {10.1029/2019jb018667},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth},
number = 2,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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