Theoretical investigations of filtration process of hydrocarbon mixtures in porous media

Abstract

Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malta, 16-18 July, 2012.

A mathematical model is developed which enables one to calculate the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of the process of filtration of hydrocarbons in the stratum. A theoretical investigation is performed of the effect of formation and destruction of a condensate plug under conditions of filtration of a binary mixture of hydrocarbons (methane–nbutane) in a one-dimensional model of gas-condensate stratum. The possibility of the existence of periodic regimes of filtration processes is shown.