期刊
JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 96, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104241
关键词
Natural gas hydrates; Blockage; Flow assurance; CFD-DEM simulation; Aggregation; Collision
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51874323, U20B6005, 52104069]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [3192027]
- National Key Research and Development Plan [2016YFC0303704]
- Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing [2462020YXZZ045, 2462020XKBH012]
- 111 Project [B18054]
In this study, numerical simulations using CFD and DEM were conducted to investigate hydrate blockage in deep-water pipelines. The interaction between hydrate particles and pipeline wall was considered, providing theoretical support for studying the hydrate blockage mechanism.
With oil and gas exploitation developing towards deep-water fields, the extreme, low-temperature, and highpressure environments are ideal for hydrate formation in subsea pipelines. Hydrate formation, growth, aggregation, and deposition in the flowlines substantially increase the hydrate blockage risk, necessitating the assessment and clarification of this process. This work employed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the discrete element method (DEM) to perform several numerical simulations using Fluent and EDEM to study the hydrate blockage process caused by aggregation and deposition. A three-dimensional model of a solid-liquid pipeline containing hydrate particles was established, which considered the cohesion force between the hydrate particles and the adhesion force between the hydrate particles and pipe wall. Two simulation strategies were implemented. The first simulated the hydrate blockage process using a throttling element, which assumed hydrate depositions on the pipeline wall. The second studied the impact of the collision between upstream and downstream hydrate aggregates. The critical hydrate blockage state was roughly defined based on the hydrate volume fraction and pressure drop changes during the hydrate aggregate collision process. These results represented the initial work for simulating the hydrate blockage process via combined CFD-DEM by considering the bidirectional interaction between the continuous water phase and discrete hydrate particles. These preliminary findings provided theoretical support for studying the hydrate blockage mechanism to solve the hydrate flow assurance issue in the subsea pipelines.
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