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Article

Study of the Dynamic Behavior of an Autonomous Inflow-Control Device Using a Digital Twin

by
Luis Alfonso Ramirez Cerquera
1,*,
Jorge Andrés Pinilla
1,
Nicolás Ríos Ratkovich
1 and
Miguel Asuaje
2
1
Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, University of Los Andes, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
2
Energy Conversion and Transportation Department, Simon Bolívar University, Caracas 1090, Venezuela
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Processes 2022, 10(12), 2691; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10122691
Submission received: 24 May 2022 / Revised: 21 September 2022 / Accepted: 7 October 2022 / Published: 13 December 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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Abstract

Solutions that aim to reduce water production in heavy oil wells have led to the design of devices known as rate-controlled production (RCP) autonomous inflow-control device (AICD) valves, which are placed in well completions and autonomously open with the oil inflow and close with water by choking the flow. These devices, which are based on Bernoulli’s principle, use a levitating disk that chokes the flow of the phase with the lowest flow resistance. This study proposes a numerical model based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology to understand these devices’ operations and propose better designs without experimentation. The numerical model was based on dynamic fluid–body interaction (DFBI) and volume of fluid (VOF) models. The model was found to respond as expected depending on the physical properties of the fluids involved in heavy oil production. Finally, some limitations were found in the numerical study that can be improved in future studies.
Keywords: inflow-control device; CFD; heavy oil; RCP; water management inflow-control device; CFD; heavy oil; RCP; water management

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Cerquera, L.A.R.; Pinilla, J.A.; Ratkovich, N.R.; Asuaje, M. Study of the Dynamic Behavior of an Autonomous Inflow-Control Device Using a Digital Twin. Processes 2022, 10, 2691. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10122691

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Cerquera LAR, Pinilla JA, Ratkovich NR, Asuaje M. Study of the Dynamic Behavior of an Autonomous Inflow-Control Device Using a Digital Twin. Processes. 2022; 10(12):2691. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10122691

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Cerquera, Luis Alfonso Ramirez, Jorge Andrés Pinilla, Nicolás Ríos Ratkovich, and Miguel Asuaje. 2022. "Study of the Dynamic Behavior of an Autonomous Inflow-Control Device Using a Digital Twin" Processes 10, no. 12: 2691. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10122691

APA Style

Cerquera, L. A. R., Pinilla, J. A., Ratkovich, N. R., & Asuaje, M. (2022). Study of the Dynamic Behavior of an Autonomous Inflow-Control Device Using a Digital Twin. Processes, 10(12), 2691. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10122691

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