Numerical Simulation of Water Injection into Vapor-Dominated Reservoirs
- Key words
- reinjection, Geysers steam field,coupled fluid and heat flows, numerical simulations techniques
- Location
- The Geysers, California
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 6 - Resource Evaluation and Modeling
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 3-pruess
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Abstract
Water injection into vapor-dominated reservoirs is a means of condensate disposal, as well as a reservoir management tool for enhancing energy recovery and reservoir life. We review different approaches to the complex Huid and heat flow processes during injection into vapor-dominated systems. Vapor pressure lowering, grid orientation effects, and physical dispersion of plumes from reservoir heterogeneity are important for a realistic modeling of injection effects. An example of detailed three-dimensional modeling of injection experiments at The Geysers is given.
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