Título: | DISPLACEMENT OF COMPLEX FLUIDS IN IRREGULAR ANNULAR SPACES | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
PEDRO JOSE TOBAR ESPINOZA |
||||||||||||
Colaborador(es): |
RAFAEL MENEZES DE OLIVEIRA - Orientador PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA MENDES - Coorientador |
||||||||||||
Catalogação: | 30/NOV/2021 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
||||||||||
Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
||||||||||||
Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=56290&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=56290&idi=2 |
||||||||||||
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.56290 | ||||||||||||
Resumo: | |||||||||||||
The displacement of a fluid caused by another one, inside annular
spaces, is commonly found in the oil industry and most of these
rearrangements involve non-Newtonian materials. The annular space often
shows irregularities caused by erosion, in which considerable amounts
of drilling fluid can be left behind during the displacement process,
compromising the cementing operation efficiency. Motivated by that
industrial process, fluid-fluid displacement tests at constant flow rate were
performed in annular spaces in which their exterior walls displayed -
in a determined axial position - an abrupt expansion followed by an
abrupt contraction. The purpose of the tests were to determine the
displacement efficiency as a function of flow rate, rheological properties
and geometric cavity. The results revealed a strong influence of these
parameters on the displacement efficiency. At the same time, a numerical
research was developed. Numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes
equations in axisymmetric geometry for incompressible fluids were coupled
to the Level-Set method to capture the interface. Fluids with constant
viscosity and the generalized Newtonian model with viscosity function of
Carreau-Yasuda were used. That allowed to simulate displacements between
two Newtonian fluids and a Newtonian and a non-Newtonian fluid. This was
used both as a displacer and as a displaced fluid. Simulations were performed for several diameters and viscosities ratios, relaxatation time, capilar and Reynolds numbers. We identified when the approximation of the annular space by two parallel plates can be applied and calculated how the shape
of the interface depends on the investigated parameters.
|
|||||||||||||
|