Bubble Point Pressures of Hydrocarbon Mixtures in Multiscale Volumes from Density Functional Theory

Accurate characterization of the bubble point pressure of hydrocarbon mixtures under nanoconfinement is crucial to the prediction of ultimate oil recovery and well productivity of shale/tight oil reservoirs. Unlike conventional reservoirs, shale has an extensive network of tiny pores in the range of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 34(2018), 46 vom: 20. Nov., Seite 14058-14068
1. Verfasser: Zhao, Yinuo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Yingnan, Zhong, Junjie, Xu, Yi, Sinton, David, Jin, Zhehui
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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520 |a Accurate characterization of the bubble point pressure of hydrocarbon mixtures under nanoconfinement is crucial to the prediction of ultimate oil recovery and well productivity of shale/tight oil reservoirs. Unlike conventional reservoirs, shale has an extensive network of tiny pores in the range of a few nanometers. In nanopores, the properties of hydrocarbon fluids deviate from those in bulk because of significant surface adsorption. Many previous theoretical works use a conventional equation of state model coupled with capillary pressure to study the nanoconfinement effect. Without including the inhomogeneous molecular density distributions in nanoconfinement, these previous approaches predict only slightly reduced bubble points. In this work, we use density functional theory to study the effect of nanoconfinement on the hydrocarbon mixture bubble point pressure by explicitly considering fluid-surface interactions and inhomogeneous density distributions in nanopores. We find that as system pressure decreases, while lighter components are continuously released from the nanopores, heavier components accumulate within. The bubble point pressure of nanoconfined hydrocarbon mixtures is thus significantly suppressed from the bulk bubble point to below the bulk dew point, in line with our previous experiments. When bulk fluids are in a two-phase, the confined hydrocarbon fluids are in a single liquid-like phase. As pore size increases, bubble point pressure of confined fluids increases and hydrocarbon average density in nanopores approaches the liquid-phase density in bulk when bulk is in a two-phase region. For a finite volume bulk bath, we find that because of the competitive adsorption in nanopores, the bulk bubble point pressure increases in line with a previous experimental work. Our work demonstrates how mixture dynamics and nanopore-bulk partitioning influence phase behavior in nanoconfinement and enables the accurate estimation of hydrocarbon mixture bubble point pressure in shale nanopores 
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