Evaluation of reducing CO 2 emissions as important greenhouse gas and maximum oil recovery: optimization of two processe
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Evaluation of reducing CO2 emissions as important greenhouse gas and maximum oil recovery: optimization of two processes F. Farahbod1 Received: 5 February 2020 / Revised: 27 August 2020 / Accepted: 14 September 2020 © Islamic Azad University (IAU) 2020
Abstract The oil and gas sources as fossil fuels have high wealth in the entire world. Furthermore, several dead wells with considerable oil content cannot be used in the universe. So, the oil recovery optimization and also the optimum amount of carbon dioxide storage using the carbon dioxide injection method are investigated in this research. The optimum amount of oil recovery and carbon dioxide storage is simulated by ECLIPSE 300 software combined with genetic algorithm. According to the results, the carbon dioxide capturing till 2050 can prevent greenhouse gas emission. This capturing can remove the CO2 as greenhouse gas more than 4 Gt/year. The results show that the maximum amount of field oil production total (FOPT) and also the maximum amount of carbon dioxide storage are at grid 24 × 7. Also, results state that the first layer is a best location for perforation. In addition, the optimum distance between reticules is 77 ft, approximately. The results show that the amount of recovered oil is about 31.72%, if the gas is injected, continuously. However, the amount of oil recovery factor in the natural state is about 18.74%. Keywords Carbon dioxide storage · Greenhouse gas · Oil recovery · Location optimization · Injecting reservoirs
Introduction It is now widely accepted that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil hydrocarbons raise the Earth’s surface temperature. On the other hand, among the various types of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide gas plays a major role in causing these adverse effects on the Earth’s atmosphere, because about 64% of the total volume of greenhouse gas emissions is only carbon dioxide gas (Pedram et al. 2018). Therefore, reducing the concentration of this harmful gas in the atmosphere is one of the main concerns of any type of greenhouse gas balancing system. The 1997 Kyoto Memorandum introduced restrictive laws for industrialized countries to manage carbon capture resources to achieve emission reduction targets (Peck Wesley et al. 2018). According to the memorandum, industrialized nations should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by an acceptable level by Editorial responsibility: Mohamed F. Yassin. * F. Farahbod [email protected] 1
Department of Chemical Engineering, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Iran
2012. So far, many plans have been put forward by various researchers around the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Underground storage can be described as a high-potential technology for long-term storage of carbon dioxide emitted from residential sources such as fossil fuel power plant. On the other hand, the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a generic term for techniques of increasing the oil amount that can be extracted from an oil reservoir (Shuoshi et al. 2018). This
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