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Outline
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Gel
Restart
Wax
Sand
transport
Hydrates
Flow
assurance
Slugging
Flow
induced
vibration
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Asphaltene
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Erosion Process
Hydrocarbon wells produce a complex multiphase mixture of
components including
Particulate erosion
Liquid droplet erosion
Erosion-corrosion
Cavitation
It is generally accepted that particulates (sand and proppant) are the most
common source of erosion problems in hydrocarbon systems
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Tools
Failed Tool
Particulate Flow
Particulate Property
Particulate erosion
function of impact
velocity (V^n n
upto 2-3 for steel
surfaces)
High density high
viscosity particles
carried by flow than
impact
Low viscosity/low
density fluids impact
on walls very likely
Small particles
carried away by fluid
than causing impact
Large particle result
in high bouncing off
Hard particles create
more erosion than
soft particles
Sharp particles
create more damage
than rounded
particles
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Solution
Modify exit flow from choke without
causing additional pressure drop.
ANSYS multiphase flow solutions to
understand and change particulate
flow patterns
Result
Flow Inlet
Courtesy of DNV
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Particle trajectories
colored by velocity and
associated erosion area
for two chokes
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Euler-Granular Models
Drag laws calibrated
Applies Kinetic Theory of Granular flow
Particle
Models
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All these Erosion Models are available for both single phase and
multiphase CFD simulations
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ERw = A V SS
ER = ERsp + ERw
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Multiphase Erosion
Low Erosion due
to liquid cushion
Contours of Erosion Rate
Multiphase Erosion
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Particle shielding
effect captured
in multiphase
simulation
Single phase
predicts
conservative
erosion
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User inputs drive the UDF and journal file in the background
Multiple Erosion Models to choose
Built-in defaults for DPM settings
Customized post processing for erosion rate
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Choose secondary phase or mixture phase velocity field and fluid properties for
particle tracking
Abrasive erosion model for flow of dense slurry
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Main Panel
Erosion - MDM
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Erosion - MDM
FLOW
Larger ID
After 42 hr
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Proppant VOF
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Summary
ANSYS CFD provides platform for multi-physics, multiscale and multi-components configurations of
particulate flows
MPM, DPM, DDPM, DEM, Eulerian-Granular
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