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  • An Improved Correlation of ...
    Wang, Chenhui; Jia, Ailin; Guo, Zhi; Huang, Suqi; Shi, Xiaomin; Cui, Feifei

    Energies (Basel), 12/2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    The injection of carbon dioxide (COsub.2) into gas reservoirs has become an important way to enhance gas recovery and reduce COsub.2 emissions. Large discrepancies are observed when predicting natural gas compressibility factors with high COsub.2 content by several well-known empirical correlations. An explicit correlation is proposed to improve the prediction accuracy in the estimation of compressibility factors on condensate gases with variable COsub.2 contents. The analysis of the results is carried out on the basis of 202 experimental data from 9 various mixtures of natural gases. The results show that relative deviations of compressibility factors predicted by conventional empirical correlations increase with the increase in COsub.2 mole fraction with an average error of 8%. The average error of the new method is less than 4%. The effect of compressibility factors on the estimations of dynamic reserves is studied and the compressibility factor causes a 3% reduction in dynamic reserves estimation. The proposed correlation has fewer uncertainties and more accurate results than other correlations that involve the iterative process in calculating compressibility factors of natural gases with variable COsub.2 contents.