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Isabelle Reerink
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Preprint
(2022)
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Ahmed Hussain, Bernard Meulenbroek, Wouter van der Star, Han Claringbould, Aayla Reerink, Negar Khoshnevis Gargar, Hans Bruining, Karl-Heinz Wolf
Producing geothermal heat from production water causes cooldown from the reservoir temperature up to 250C at fluid pressures from over 100 bar to 10 bar.During the process degassification of CO2 and methane cause reduction in pH and by that dissolution and precipitation of minerals.At depth, mineral precipitation in the reservoir restricts flow paths through the cyclic system, resulting into injectivity loss, by that higher injection pressures result in additional costs.Due the large number of timesteps,numerically modeling mineralization, accounting for the reaction kinetics, can be computationally expensive. These simulations are less expensive when assuming a local equilibrium between the reactants and reaction-products. As described in Meulenbroek et all. (2020) we present an analytical model for mineral precipitation in a low-enthalpy geothermal reservoir.The three different reaction regimes are (1) fast reactions (2) very slow reactions (3) reaction/transport intermediate zone.We focus on the near-wellbore region in the reservoir, where precipitation can behave as a ‘skin’ and has a more dramatic impact on the injectivity than precipitation further downstream. Our numerical model uses a coupling approach between PHREEQC and COMSOL utilizing the qualification of the different reaction regimes. This methodology was validated by using an analytical solution of a specific mineralization case. In addition it was compared to a field case.
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Producing geothermal heat from production water causes cooldown from the reservoir temperature up to 250C at fluid pressures from over 100 bar to 10 bar.During the process degassification of CO2 and methane cause reduction in pH and by that dissolution and precipitation of minerals.At depth, mineral precipitation in the reservoir restricts flow paths through the cyclic system, resulting into injectivity loss, by that higher injection pressures result in additional costs.Due the large number of timesteps,numerically modeling mineralization, accounting for the reaction kinetics, can be computationally expensive. These simulations are less expensive when assuming a local equilibrium between the reactants and reaction-products. As described in Meulenbroek et all. (2020) we present an analytical model for mineral precipitation in a low-enthalpy geothermal reservoir.The three different reaction regimes are (1) fast reactions (2) very slow reactions (3) reaction/transport intermediate zone.We focus on the near-wellbore region in the reservoir, where precipitation can behave as a ‘skin’ and has a more dramatic impact on the injectivity than precipitation further downstream. Our numerical model uses a coupling approach between PHREEQC and COMSOL utilizing the qualification of the different reaction regimes. This methodology was validated by using an analytical solution of a specific mineralization case. In addition it was compared to a field case.