Phase Equilibria of Confined Fluids in Nanopores of Tight and Shale Rocks Considering the Effect of Capillary Pressure and Adsorption Film

Because of the effect of nanoscale confinement, the phase behavior of fluids confined in nanopores differs significantly from that observed in a PVT cell. In this paper, the cubic Peng–Robinson equation of state (EOS) is coupled with capillary pressure equation and adsorption theory to investigate and represent the phase equilibria of pure components and their mixtures in cylindrical nanopores. The shift of critical properties is also taken into account. Because of the effect of an adsorption film, an improved Young–Laplace equation is adopted to simulate capillarity instead of the conventional equation. For the adsorption behavior, the experimental data of the adsorbent of silicalite are used to represent the adsorption behavior of hydrocarbons in nanopores. Then a prediction process for the behavior of methane, n-butane, n-pentane, n-hexane and their mixtures are performed. Furthermore, the results are compared against the available experimental data to validate the accuracy of this scheme. An actual Ea...

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