Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for dynamically measuring the saturation and permeability of a gas hydrate in a porous medium aiming at the technical problems in the prior art, so that the test precision is improved, the experimental steps are greatly simplified, and the experimental time is shortened.
In order to solve the problems proposed above, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a method for dynamically monitoring and determining the saturation of gas hydrates in a porous medium comprises the following specific steps:
selecting a rock core, drying the rock core and saturating distilled water;
designing and building a hydrate generation system, wherein the hydrate generation system comprises a non-magnetic core holder connected with a low-field nuclear magnetic spectrometer, and a confining pressure cavity is formed in the non-magnetic core holder;
adding confining pressure liquid into the confining pressure cavity, and adding gas into the pores of the rock core;
setting confining pressure in a confining pressure cavity and air pressure in a pore, adjusting temperature to generate a gas hydrate, acquiring a nuclear magnetic spectrum on a nuclear magnetic spectrometer in real time, and determining a generation stage of the gas hydrate;
monitoring by a nuclear magnetic spectrometer, and waiting for the saturation of the gas hydrate to be stable;
collecting nuclear magnetic signals on a corresponding nuclear magnetic spectrogram under the conditions of stable confining pressure and air pressure, comparing the total amount of the nuclear magnetic signals without hydrates, and converting the difference value of the nuclear magnetic signals with the total amount of the nuclear magnetic signals without hydrates into the quality of hydrate generation consumption water;
calculating the saturation of the gas hydrate by a material balance method according to the mass of the consumed water;
measuring the permeability of the core containing the hydrate corresponding to the saturation;
and repeatedly acquiring and calculating by changing confining pressure and air pressure to obtain saturation and permeability data meeting the requirements.
Further, the calculation of the gas hydrate saturation by using the material balance method comprises the following steps:
when the saturation of the hydrate is stable, the mass of the gas hydrate is mhThen, the following is obtained according to the material balance equation formed by the gas hydrate and the corresponding relation between the quantity and the mass of the material:
thus obtaining: m ish={(18n+Ym)×ΔmH2O}/(18n) ①
Wherein Y is the molar mass of the gas X participating in the formation of the hydrate, and X is the gas participating in the reaction; n and m are respectively the proportion of water molecules and gas molecules participating in the reaction; Δ mH2OThe mass of water consumed for reaction is calculated according to the variation of a nuclear magnetic spectrum;
the volume of the gas hydrate generated is calculated by equation (ii):
Vh=mh/ρ h ②
where rhohDensity as pure gas hydrate;
gas hydrate saturation ShCalculating by formula (c):
Sh=Vh/Vpore ③
in the formula VporeThe core pore volume.
Further, the hydrate generation system comprises a non-magnetic core holder arranged in the nuclear magnetic spectrometer, an inlet of the non-magnetic core holder is connected with an air source, and a first stop valve and a first pressure sensor are arranged between the non-magnetic core holder and the gas source; the outlet of the non-magnetic core holder is connected with a back pressure valve, the back pressure valve is controlled to be opened and closed by a back pressure liquid injection pump for providing back pressure, a third stop valve is arranged between the back pressure valve and the back pressure valve, and a second pressure sensor is further arranged between the outlet of the non-magnetic core holder and the back pressure valve; the back pressure valve is also connected with a gas flowmeter.
The confining pressure liquid pressurizing pump is connected with the second stop valve and then connected with the non-magnetic core holder and is used for injecting confining pressure liquid to provide required confining pressure; one end of the confining pressure liquid cooling box is also connected with an inlet of the confining pressure cavity of the non-magnetic core holder, and the other end of the confining pressure liquid cooling box is connected with a confining pressure circulating pump and then is connected with an outlet of the confining pressure cavity of the non-magnetic core holder; and the outlet of the confining pressure cavity of the non-magnetic core holder is also connected with a temperature sensor.
Further, a computer system is adopted to be respectively connected with the first pressure sensor, the second pressure sensor, the temperature sensor, the nuclear magnetic spectrometer and the gas flowmeter.
Further, a drying bottle is arranged between the backpressure valve and the gas flowmeter.
Further, the core holder comprises a core, a PEEK confining pressure cylinder, PEEK filling plungers, a heat-shrinkable sleeve and metal plugs, wherein the core is packaged between the two PEEK filling plungers through the heat-shrinkable sleeve, the PEEK filling plungers and the core are integrally inserted into the PEEK confining pressure cylinder, and the metal plugs are arranged at two ends of the PEEK confining pressure cylinder for sealing; and a cavity is formed between the PEEK confining pressure cylinder body and the thermal shrinkage sleeve and is used as a confining pressure cavity into which nonmagnetic low-temperature confining pressure liquid is pumped.
And further, opening a first stop valve and a second stop valve, respectively adding confining pressure liquid and gas into the confining pressure cavity and the core hole through a confining pressure liquid pressurizing pump and a gas source, and setting confining pressure and gas pressure.
Further, setting inlet pressure in the core hole, adjusting confining pressure, keeping the pressure difference between the confining pressure and the average air pressure unchanged, opening a third stop valve, pumping back pressure liquid through a back pressure liquid injection pump, and opening the back pressure valve to release pressure; and acquiring the gas flow of an outlet through a computer system and a gas flowmeter, and calculating the permeability according to the gas flow by using a gas Darcy formula.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the method is combined with a real-time monitoring system of a low-field nuclear magnetic spectrum, the saturation of the generated gas hydrate can be accurately measured on the premise of no damage to a test sample, repeated pressure rise and pressure reduction can be carried out under the condition of not disassembling an experimental instrument, the saturation of hydrates under the condition of multiple groups of pressure is obtained, the traditional step of building a primary instrument is simplified, the step of obtaining a gas hydrate saturation experiment corresponding to a group of initial water saturation by saturating the primary sample is simplified, the testing precision is improved, the experiment step is greatly simplified, and the experiment time is shortened.
Detailed Description
To facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1, the present invention provides a method for dynamically determining the saturation and permeability of gas hydrate in a porous medium, which comprises the following specific steps:
step S1: selecting a rock core, drying the rock core and saturating the rock core with distilled water.
Step S2: designing and building a hydrate generation system according to the selected core, wherein the hydrate generation system comprises a core holder connected with a low-field nuclear magnetic spectrometer, and a confining pressure cavity is formed in the core holder.
Step S3: and adding confining pressure liquid into the confining pressure cavity, and adding gas into the pores of the core.
Step S4: setting the confining pressure in the confining pressure cavity and the air pressure in the pores, adjusting the temperature to generate the gas hydrate, acquiring a nuclear magnetic spectrum on a nuclear magnetic spectrometer in real time, and determining the generation stage of the gas hydrate.
In step S4, a nuclear magnetic spectrum is acquired in real time to determine the generation stage of the gas hydrate in the core, and the nuclear magnetic spectrum of the water signal is used to determine the water content in the core due to the consumption of the water content accompanied by the formation of the gas hydrate, so that the generation stage of the hydrate can be reflected. In the initial stage of the experiment, the nuclear magnetic spectrum can be selected to be collected every 1 to 2 hours, and when the nuclear magnetic signal quantity changes to be smaller, the nuclear magnetic spectrum can be collected once in 10 minutes instead.
Step S5: monitoring by a nuclear magnetic spectrometer, waiting for the saturation of the gas hydrate to be stable, judging whether the gas hydrate is stable, and if not, continuing to wait; if so, the next step is performed.
In step S5, it is observed and waited that the hydrate saturation under a certain specific confining pressure and air pressure is stable, and after at least 4 hours, a nuclear magnetic spectrum of the core at that time is collected to obtain a nuclear magnetic signal. Due to the influence of capillary force, the gas hydrate saturation degree which can be generated in the rock core is different under different ambient pressure and air pressure conditions, and in order to determine the hydrate saturation degree corresponding to the pressure condition, the nuclear magnetic spectrum of the rock core needs to be collected in real time to observe the water content in the rock core. It cannot be determined that the gas hydrate saturation in the core 100 reaches a plateau at this pressure condition until the water content is substantially stable.
Step S6: and when the saturation of the hydrate is stable, acquiring nuclear magnetic signals on a corresponding nuclear magnetic spectrogram under the conditions of confining pressure and air pressure, comparing the total amount of the nuclear magnetic signals in the absence of the hydrate, and converting the difference value of the nuclear magnetic signals and the total amount of the nuclear magnetic signals into the quality of the hydrate generated and consumed water.
Step S7: the calculation of the gas hydrate saturation is performed by a mass balance method, depending on the mass of water consumed.
Step S8: and measuring the permeability of the core containing the hydrate corresponding to the saturation.
Step S9: judging whether enough saturation and permeability data are acquired, if not, changing the confining pressure and the gas pressure to promote the synthesis or decomposition of the gas hydrate, and returning to the step S4; if yes, the process is finished.
In step S7, the gas hydrate saturation is calculated by a material balance method, which includes the following steps:
when the hydrate saturation is stable, the mass of gas hydrate generated in the rock core under the pressure condition is mhThen, the following is obtained according to the material balance equation formed by the gas hydrate and the corresponding relation between the quantity and the mass of the material:
thus obtaining: m ish={(18n+Ym)×ΔmH2O}/(18n) ①
Wherein Y is the molar mass (mol/g) of the gas X participating in the hydrate formation, and X is a gas participating in the reaction, such as CH4、CO2Etc.; n and m are water molecules and gas molecules respectively participating in reactionThe mixture ratio is that the n and m values of different gases are different; Δ mH2OThe mass (g) of water consumed for the reaction is calculated from the amount of change in the nuclear magnetic spectrum.
The volume of the gas hydrate generated is calculated by equation (ii):
Vh=mh/ρ h ②
where rhohDensity (g/cm) of pure gas hydrate3)。
Gas hydrate saturation ShCan be calculated by formula (c):
Sh=Vh/Vpore ③
in the formula VporeCore pore volume (ml).
Further, referring to fig. 2, the hydrate generating system includes a non-magnetic core holder 2 and a nuclear magnetic spectrometer 3, and the non-magnetic core holder 2 is disposed in the nuclear magnetic spectrometer 3 and used for generating and decomposing hydrates. An inlet of the non-magnetic core holder 2 is connected with an air source 1, and a first stop valve 121 and a first pressure sensor 131 are arranged between the non-magnetic core holder and the air source 1 and used for providing and adjusting air pressure.
The outlet of the non-magnetic core holder 2 is connected with a back pressure valve 8, the back pressure valve 8 is controlled to be opened and closed by a back pressure liquid injection pump 11 for providing back pressure, a third stop valve 123 is arranged between the back pressure valve 8 and the back pressure valve 8, a second pressure sensor 132 is further arranged between the outlet of the non-magnetic core holder 2 and the back pressure valve 8, and the back pressure valve 8 is further connected with a gas flowmeter 10.
And the confining pressure liquid pressurizing pump 7 is connected with the non-magnetic core holder 2 after being connected with the second stop valve 122 and is used for injecting confining pressure liquid to provide and adjust required confining pressure. One end of the confining pressure liquid cooling box 6 is also connected with an inlet of the confining pressure cavity of the non-magnetic core holder 2, and the other end of the confining pressure liquid cooling box is connected with an outlet of the non-magnetic core holder 2 after being connected with the confining pressure circulating pump 5. And the outlet of the confining pressure cavity of the non-magnetic core holder 2 is also connected with a temperature sensor 14. The confining pressure circulating pump 5 is used for enabling confining pressure liquid to continuously circulate in the pipeline, taking away the temperature in real time, ensuring that the rock core is kept in a stable low-temperature environment, and cooling the non-magnetic confining pressure liquid in the confining pressure pipeline through the confining pressure liquid cooling box 6, so that the working reliability and stability of the hydrate generation system are ensured, and the test precision of the experiment is reliably ensured.
Further, the computer system 4 is respectively connected to the first pressure sensor 131, the second pressure sensor 132, the temperature sensor 14, the nuclear magnetic spectrometer 3 and the gas flowmeter 10, and can acquire a pressure signal, a temperature signal, a nuclear magnetic signal and a gas flow rate in the confining pressure cavity in real time.
Further, a drying bottle 9 is arranged between the back pressure valve 8 and the gas flowmeter 10, so that discharged outlet gas passes through the drying bottle 9, the gas passing through the gas flowmeter 10 is completely dried, the gas flowmeter 10 cannot be damaged, and the reliability of an experiment is ensured.
Further, referring to fig. 3, the nonmagnetic core holder comprises a core 100, a PEEK confining pressure cylinder 200, PEEK filling plungers 300, a heat shrinkable sleeve 400 and a metal plug 500, wherein the core 100 is encapsulated between the two PEEK filling plungers 300 through the heat shrinkable sleeve 400, the PEEK filling plungers 300 and the core 100 are integrally inserted into the PEEK confining pressure cylinder 200, and the metal plugs 500 are arranged at two ends of the PEEK confining pressure cylinder 200 for sealing. A cavity is formed between the PEEK confining pressure cylinder body 200 and the thermal shrinkage sleeve 400 and can be used as a confining pressure cavity for pumping non-magnetic low-temperature confining pressure liquid. By adopting the non-magnetic core holder, the completeness and the closure of the thermal shrinkable sleeve 400 can be ensured, and sufficient gas pressure can be provided for the core 100, so that the confining pressure in the whole experimental process is greater than the air pressure, and gas hydrate can be generated more reliably.
The process of the present invention is further illustrated by the following specific examples.
The method for dynamically determining the saturation and permeability of the gas hydrate in the porous medium provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
step 100: and selecting the water-containing siltstone core, drying the water-containing siltstone core in a drying box for more than 48 hours, and adding low-pressure saturated distilled water for 2-4 hours to obtain a partially saturated water sample.
Step 200: designing and building a hydrate generation system, wherein the hydrate generation system comprises a non-magnetic core holder 2 connected with a low-field nuclear magnetic spectrometer 3, and a confining pressure cavity is formed in the non-magnetic core holder 2.
Step 300: and opening the second stop valve 122, pumping low-temperature non-magnetic fluorinated liquid into the confining pressure cavity through the confining pressure liquid pressurizing pump 7, and opening the first stop valve 121 and the gas source 1 to add carbon dioxide gas into the pores of the core.
Step 400: the confining pressure and the air pressure in the confining pressure cavity are set through the confining pressure liquid pressurizing pump 7 and the air source 1, the temperature is adjusted on a setting panel of the confining pressure liquid cooling box 6, methane hydrate is generated, a computer system 4 collects a nuclear magnetic spectrum on a nuclear magnetic spectrometer in real time, and the generation stage of the methane hydrate in the rock core is determined.
In the above, the confining pressure in the confining pressure cavity is adjusted by pumping or sucking confining pressure liquid by the confining pressure pump 7, the first stop valve 121 and the pressure reducing valve of the gas source 1 are opened to adjust the gas pressure, the confining pressure is ensured to be greater than the gas pressure in the experimental process, and the confining pressure and the gas pressure are collected by the first pressure sensor 131; the set temperature and pressure reach the hydrate generating condition and are acquired by the temperature sensor 14.
Step 500: and monitoring by a nuclear magnetic spectrometer, waiting for the saturation of the gas hydrate to be stable, and judging whether the gas hydrate is stable.
In the step, after the collected hydrate is generated under the conditions of the confining pressure of 4.0MPa and the air pressure of 3.57MPa, the nuclear magnetic signal quantity is monitored until the water content is stable after the saturation degree of the carbon dioxide hydrate is basically stable under the pressure condition.
Step 600: and (3) acquiring a corresponding nuclear magnetic spectrum when the saturation of the hydrate is stable, and comparing the total nuclear magnetic signal amount in the absence of the hydrate, wherein the nuclear magnetic signal of 1596.368p.u. is reduced in the synthesis of the hydrate, so that 1.097g of water is consumed in the generation of the hydrate.
Step 700: under the pressure condition, the hydrate mass in the core can be calculated according to the mass of consumed water and a material balance equation and a derivative formula (phi):
mh={(44+5.75×18)×1.097}/(5.75×18)=1.563g ①
wherein 44 is the molar mass (mol/g) involved in carbon dioxide; 5.75 is the proportion of water molecules combined by one molecule of carbon dioxide.
The volume of the generated gas hydrate is calculated by the formula (II):
Vh=mh/ρh=1.699cm 3 ②
in the formula, ρhDensity of pure carbon dioxide hydrate, 0.92g/cm3。
Gas hydrate saturation ShCan be calculated by formula (c):
Sh=Vh/Vpore=63.17% ③
in the formula, VporeThe core pore volume was 2.69 ml.
That is, the sandstone was found to have a hydrate saturation of 63.17% at an average pressure of 3.08 MPa.
Step 800: and measuring the permeability of the core containing the hydrate corresponding to the saturation, specifically:
keeping the first stop valve 121 and the second stop valve 122 open, setting the pressure in the core hole and adjusting the confining pressure at any time, keeping the pressure difference between the confining pressure and the average air pressure stable, keeping the inlet pressure of the non-magnetic core holder 2 still at 3.57MPa, opening the third stop valve 123, pumping back pressure liquid through the back pressure liquid injection pump 11, enabling the back pressure valve 8 to open for pressure relief, discharging the gas at the outlet of the core holder 2, reducing the pressure to 2.597MPa, and acquiring the pressure through the second pressure sensor 132. The gas flow at the outlet is collected by the computer system 4 and the gas flowmeter 10, and the permeability can be calculated by using a gas Darcy formula after the stable gas flow is obtained.
Step 900: judging whether enough saturation and permeability data are acquired, if not, changing the confining pressure and the gas pressure to promote the synthesis or decomposition of the gas hydrate, and repeating the process; if yes, the process is finished.
If not, continuously changing the confining pressure and the gas pressure to promote the synthesis or decomposition of the gas hydrate, wherein the processes are respectively as follows:
(1) keeping the first stop valve 121 and the second stop valve 122 open, setting the pressure in the core hole and adjusting the confining pressure at any time to keep the pressure difference between the confining pressure and the average air pressure stable, opening the third stop valve 123 to reduce the pressure of the core holder 2 until the inlet pressure of the core holder 2 is reduced to 2.54MPa and the outlet pressure is reduced to 2.395MPa, keeping the confining pressure to 3.5MPa, and monitoring the nuclear magnetic signal quantity until the water content is stable after waiting for the carbon dioxide hydrate saturation under the new pressure condition to be basically stable.
And acquiring a nuclear magnetic spectrum corresponding to the stable hydrate saturation in the rock core, and comparing the total nuclear magnetic signal amount in the absence of the hydrate, wherein the nuclear magnetic signal of 1280.774p.u. is reduced in the synthesis of the hydrate, so that 0.880g of water is consumed in the generation of the hydrate.
The hydrate mass in the core under the pressure condition can be calculated according to a material balance equation and a derivative formula (phi) of the mass of consumed water:
mh={(44+5.75×18)×0.880}/(5.75×18)=1.254g ①
the volume of the generated gas hydrate is calculated by the formula (II):
Vh=mh/ρh=1.363cm 3 ②
gas hydrate saturation ShCalculated by formula (c):
Sh=Vh/Vpore=50.67% ③
that is, the sandstone was found to have a hydrate saturation of 50.67% at an average pressure of 2.54 MPa.
And measuring the permeability of the corresponding core containing the hydrate by the computer system 4 according to the hydrate saturation.
(2) Keeping the first stop valve 121 and the second stop valve 122 open, setting the inlet pressure in the core hole and adjusting the confining pressure at any time, keeping the pressure difference between the confining pressure and the average air pressure stable, opening the third stop valve 123 to reduce the pressure of the nonmagnetic core holder 2 until the inlet pressure of the nonmagnetic core holder 2 is reduced to 2.44MPa, the outlet pressure is reduced to 2.390MPa, keeping the confining pressure to 3.4MPa, and monitoring the nuclear magnetic signal quantity until the water content is stable after waiting for the carbon dioxide hydrate saturation under the new pressure condition to be basically stable.
And acquiring a nuclear magnetic spectrum corresponding to the stable hydrate saturation in the rock core, and comparing the total nuclear magnetic signal amount in the absence of the hydrate, wherein the nuclear magnetic signal of 934.019p.u. is reduced in the synthesis of the hydrate, so that 0.641g of water is consumed in the generation of the hydrate.
The hydrate mass in the core under the pressure condition can be calculated according to a material balance equation and a derivative formula (phi) of the mass of consumed water:
mh={(44+5.75×18)×0.641}/(5.75×18)=0.914g ①
the volume of the generated gas hydrate is calculated by the formula (II):
Vh=mh/ρh=0.994cm 3 ②
gas hydrate saturation ShCalculated by formula (c):
Sh=Vh/Vpore=36.95% ③
that is, the saturation of hydrate in the sandstone was 36.95% at an average pressure of 2.46 MPa.
And measuring the permeability of the corresponding core containing the hydrate by the computer system 4 according to the hydrate saturation.
In the above steps, the synthesis or decomposition of the hydrate is promoted by changing the air pressure and the confining pressure for many times, the nuclear magnetic signal of the core at the moment is collected after the hydrate saturation is stable, the hydrate saturation is calculated, and the permeability corresponding to the saturation is measured. After the saturation and permeability of the core hydrate under a group of specific confining pressure and air pressure conditions are collected, the experimental instrument is not required to be disassembled, the cores with different water saturation degrees are prepared again, a new saturation state of the gas hydrate can be obtained only by changing the confining pressure and the air pressure again, and the corresponding permeability after the state is changed can be measured. After a set of hydrate saturation data is collected, the pressure condition can be changed for many times until the experimental requirements are met.
According to the method for dynamically measuring the saturation and permeability of the gas hydrate in the porous medium, provided by the invention, through matching with a nuclear magnetic experiment, after the change rule of the water content in the porous medium is obtained, the mass of the hydrate existing in the porous medium can be calculated in real time according to a material balance method, and the accurate numerical value of the saturation of the hydrate can be obtained by combining with the porosity information of a sample, so that the real-time monitoring of the saturation of the hydrate is realized, and the stability of the saturation of the hydrate in the experimental process is ensured. Therefore, the method provided by the invention does not depend on the conversion of the initial water saturation of the rock core to the hydrate saturation, can obtain a plurality of groups of hydrate saturation numerical values under the condition of not disassembling a test device, improves the test precision, can directly measure and obtain the permeability corresponding to the hydrate saturation by using the instrument after obtaining a hydrate saturation state each time, and also greatly simplifies the experimental steps and shortens the experimental time.
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications which do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be construed as equivalents thereof, and all such changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention.