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Title: Transport and Clogging of Particulate Flow in Fracture Systems

Abstract

The aim of the project is to understand the effects of confinement in narrow rough-walled fractures on the transport behavior of fluids and suspended particles in subsurface hydro- carbon reservoirs. A key motivation for the study is that such fracture systems provide the highest throughput in oil and gas extraction and have been the focus of recent industrial activity. The scientific challenge is to understand how the confined geometry alters transport phenomena, and in particular its influence on (diagnostic) tracer transport and the effects of flow channeling and clogging on fluid motion. An important complicating feature of geological fractures is the self-affine fractal nature of their surface roughness, leading to irregular but correlated fluid and particle motion. The key technique used is computer simulation, augmented by analytical calculations and collaboration with outside experimental colleagues when possible. The principal topics studied were fluid permeability, tracer dispersion, flow channeling and anisotropy, particle transport in narrow channels and particle trapping in tight fractures.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. City College of New York, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1349518
Report Number(s):
final report
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-06ER15817
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; fluid flow; fracture; particulate; jamming; channeling

Citation Formats

Koplik, Joel. Transport and Clogging of Particulate Flow in Fracture Systems. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1349518.
Koplik, Joel. Transport and Clogging of Particulate Flow in Fracture Systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1349518
Koplik, Joel. 2016. "Transport and Clogging of Particulate Flow in Fracture Systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1349518. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1349518.
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title = {Transport and Clogging of Particulate Flow in Fracture Systems},
author = {Koplik, Joel},
abstractNote = {The aim of the project is to understand the effects of confinement in narrow rough-walled fractures on the transport behavior of fluids and suspended particles in subsurface hydro- carbon reservoirs. A key motivation for the study is that such fracture systems provide the highest throughput in oil and gas extraction and have been the focus of recent industrial activity. The scientific challenge is to understand how the confined geometry alters transport phenomena, and in particular its influence on (diagnostic) tracer transport and the effects of flow channeling and clogging on fluid motion. An important complicating feature of geological fractures is the self-affine fractal nature of their surface roughness, leading to irregular but correlated fluid and particle motion. The key technique used is computer simulation, augmented by analytical calculations and collaboration with outside experimental colleagues when possible. The principal topics studied were fluid permeability, tracer dispersion, flow channeling and anisotropy, particle transport in narrow channels and particle trapping in tight fractures.},
doi = {10.2172/1349518},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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