摘要
Supercritical CO_(2)fracturing is a potential waterless fracturing technique which shows great merits in eliminating reservoir damage,improving shale gas recovery and storing CO_(2)underground.Deep insight into the proppant-transport behavior of CO_(2)is required to better apply this technique in the engineering field.In the present paper,we adopted a coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Method(CFD-DEM)approach to simulate the proppant transport in a fracking fracture with multiple perforation tunnels.Previous experiments were first simulated to benchmark the CFD-EDM approach,and then various pumping schedules and injection parameters(injection location,multi-concentration injection order,multi-density injection order and injection temperature)were investigated to determine the placement characteristics of proppant.Results indicate that the swirling vortex below the injection tunnels dominates the proppant diffusion in the fracture.The velocity of fluid flow across the proppant bank surface in multi-concentration injection shows a positive correlation with the proppant concentration.Injecting high-density proppant first can promote the transportation of low-density proppant injected later in the fracture to a certain extent.Decreasing the initial injection temperature of supercritical CO_(2)slurry helps enhance the particle-driving effect of fluid and improve the performance of supercritical CO_(2)in carrying proppant.
基金
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51874318,51922107,and41961144026)
support from the National Key Scientific Research Instrument Research Project of NSFC(Grant No.51827804)
作者简介
Corresponding author:Hai-Zhu Wang,E-mail address:whz0001@126.com
