An experimental investigation of the effect of formation and destruction of a condensate plug in a one-dimensional model of gas-condensate stratum

Abstract

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

An experimental 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–n-butane) in a one-dimensional model of gascondensate stratum. An experimental investigation is performed of the thermal effect on the condensate plug formed. It has been demonstrated that the temperature increase to 340 K results in the recovery of the flow rate of mixture and of the concentration of components.