«Onshore and offshore oil and gas well construction»

Justification of static mixers design for utilization of carbon dioxide gas in Cuban fields

UDC: 622.27
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¹ Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Ufa, Russia

Keywords: static mixer, utilization, carbon dioxide, oil fields, Cuba, injection into the reservoir, oil production

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The authors of the article consider the development of static mixers for carbon dioxide (CO2) utilization in Cuban oil fields, where CO2 emissions reach 26,4 million tons per year, mainly due to oil production. To reduce emissions and increase oil recovery, a technology of mixing CO2 with water and injecting it into the reservoir is proposed, which improves the properties of oil and increases the displacement efficiency. The authors also consider the designs of static mixers that provide uniform mixing of carbon dioxide with water before injection into the reservoir. Static mixers do not require mechanical drives and provide high mixing efficiency due to the hydrodynamic process. Modeling using ANSYS showed that the optimal design is a mixer having three mixing plates with holes of 22 mm in diameter, which demonstrates the best indicators for mixture homogeneity and minimal pressure drop. Optimal operational modes of the mixers were established: for low-pressure water pipelines (1 MPa) – 60 % of water and 40 % of CO2, for high-pressure water pipelines (10 MPa) – 80 % of water and 20 % of CO2.

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