Experimental Determination of the Effective Taylor Dispersivity in a Fracture
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Reinjection of waste hot water is commonly practiced in most geothermal fields, primarily as a means of disposal. Surface discharge of these waste waters is usually unacceptable due to the resulting thermal and chemical pollution.Although reinjection can help to maintain reservoir pressure and fluid volume, in some cases a decrease in reservoir productivity has been observed (Horne, 1962). This is caused by rapid flow of the reinjected water through fractures connecting the injector and producers. As a result, the water is not sufficiently heated by the reservoir rock, and a reduction in enthalpy of the produced fluids is seen.Tracer tests have proven to be valuable to reservoir engineers for the design of a successful reinjection program. By injecting a slug of tracer and studying the discharge of surrounding producing wells, an understanding of the fracture network within a reservoir can be provided. In order to quantify the results of a tracer test, a model that accurately describes the mechanisms of tracer transport is necessary. One such mechanism, dispersion, is like a smearing out of a tracer concentration due to the velocity gradients over the cross section of flow. If a dispersion coefficient can be determined from tracer test data, the fracture width can be estimated. The purpose of this project was to design and construct an apparatus to study the dispersion of a chemical tracer in flow through a fracture.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 1984 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gilardi, John R. |
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| Primary advisor | Horne, Roland N. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Subject | Stanford Geothermal Program |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Gilardi, John R. (1984). Experimental Determination of the Effective Taylor Dispersivity in a Fracture. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/ws600vv4636
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