CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 2005, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3): 251-255.

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A New Model for the Steam Properties in Steam Injection Wells

NI Xue-feng1, CHENG Lin-song1, LI Chun-lan1, AN Jiu-quan2   

  1. 1. University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China;
    2. Insitution of Drilling & Production, Panjin 124010, China
  • Received:2004-03-09 Revised:2004-10-10 Online:2005-05-25 Published:2005-05-25

Abstract: The steam pressure equation is deduced with the momentum theorem while the steam quality equation is deduced with energy balance.The model is solved with nodal analysis and numerical calculation.The property parameters of the steam mixture are calculated with the traditional Beggs-Brill method.The calculation results are compared with the detection on 10 steam injection wells (Qi 40 and Du 80)in Liaohe Oil Field,which indicates that this model works well in calculating the steam properties of steam injection wells.

Key words: heavy oil thermal recovery, injected steam, vertical wellbore, distribution of pressure, distribution of temperature, distribution of quality

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