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     Computational Mathematics in the Oil and Gas Industry II
     Organizers: German Larrazabal & Saul Buitrago
     Speakers: Eduardo Sanchez, German Larrazabal, & Carlos Torres M.
Abstract
The oil and gas industry are a perfect target for applications of mathematics techniques. From subsurface exploration to production, refining, transport and finally distribution of oil, gas and products, real life mathematical and decision problems arise continuously. This mini-workshop aims at bringing together scientists and engineers from academia, research laboratories, and industry, to promote the application mathematics techniques to the oil and gas industry problems. Papers on all aspects of mathematical theory, and computational and applied mathematics focus to solve oil and gas industry problem are invited to be presented at the mini-workshop.
 
Eduardo Sanchez
Modeling and Simulation of the Production Process of Electrical Energy in a Geothermal Power Plant
In this work we present a numerical model to simulate the production process of electrical energy in a geothermal power plant. The model considers the description of a geothermal power plant structure as a directed graph. Thus, we can obtain different plant structures as an input in order to be able to consider different possibilities. Given an input description, the model validates its topological feasibility based on the definition of the considered equipment and the related thermo dynamical functioning parameters. A Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm traverses the given input description in order to study the energy interactions among the equipment. The results are given in terms of the intrinsic evolution state of the working fluid, generated electrical energy and efficiency of the generation process. The implemented model has been tested for production scenarios under the reservoir conditions from different working geothermal power plants.

Keywords: Thermodynamic, graph theory, Fluid Mechanic.
 
German Larrazabal
3D Seismic Survey Design
 
Carlos Torres
CFD Modeling of Pressure Drop on Fixed Packed Beds

 

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