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Thermodiffusion in multicomponent n-alkane mixtures

P.-A. Artola
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B. Rousseau
V. Vesovic
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M. Bou-Ali
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J.M. Ortiz De Zárate
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S. Xu
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K. Zhang
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A. Verga
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O. Minster
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Résumé

Compositional grading within a mixture has a strong impact on the evaluation of the pre-exploitation distribution of hydrocarbons in underground layers and sediments. Thermodiffusion, which leads to a partial diffusive separation of species in a mixture due to the geothermal gradient, is thought to play an important role in determining the distribution of species in a reservoir. However, despite recent progress, thermodiffusion is still difficult to measure and model in multicomponent mixtures. In this work, we report on experimental investigations of the thermodiffusion of multicomponent n-alkane mixtures at pressure above 30 MPa. The experiments have been conducted in space onboard the Shi Jian 10 spacecraft so as to isolate the studied phenomena from convection. For the two exploitable cells, containing a ternary liquid mixture and a condensate gas, measurements have shown that the lightest and heaviest species had a tendency to migrate, relatively to the rest of the species, to the hot and cold region, respectively. These trends have been confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations. The measured condensate gas data have been used to quantify the influence of thermodiffusion on the initial fluid distribution of an idealised one dimension reservoir. The results obtained indicate that thermodiffusion tends to noticeably counteract the influence of gravitational segregation on the vertical distribution of species, which could result in an unstable fluid column. This confirms that, in oil and gas reservoirs, the availability of thermodiffusion data for multicomponent mixtures is crucial for a correct evaluation of the initial state fluid distribution.
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hal-01804368 , version 1 (28-01-2020)

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Guillaume Galliero, Henri Bataller, Jean-Patrick Bazile, Joseph Diaz, Fabrizio Croccolo, et al.. Thermodiffusion in multicomponent n-alkane mixtures. NPJ Microgravity, 2017, 3, pp.22. ⟨10.1038/s41526-017-0026-8⟩. ⟨hal-01804368⟩
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