Reducing CO
Systems and methods of the present disclosure includes a mixer configured to mix air and hydrocarbons and a burner configured to receive the mixed air and hydrocarbons and to generate syngas. The system also includes a cooling system configured to receive the syngas and to cool the syngas to form cooled syngas. The system further includes a collector configured to collect carbon from the cooled syngas as soot. Moreover, the system includes a flare stack configured to receive the cooled syngas and to burn off at least part of the cooled syngas.
1 . A method, comprising:
at a first time, before performing a cleanup operation of a wellbore, receiving a plurality of sets of parameters related to the cleanup operation;
at the first time, simulating at least a portion of the cleanup operation using the plurality of sets of parameters to determine a functional relationship between CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters during the cleanup operation;
recording pertinent results from simulating the portion of the cleanup operation;
storing results comprising the CO 2 emissions for the cleanup operation in an a priori table;
at a second time, while performing the cleanup operation, identifying a set of real-world operating conditions associated with the cleanup operation;
at the second time, using the set of real-world operating conditions and the functional relationship between the CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters, interpolating operating CO 2 emissions from the a priori table; and
using the operating CO 2 emissions to control the cleanup operation.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sets of parameters comprises historic real-world conditions of the wellbore.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein simulating the cleanup operation using the plurality of sets of parameters comprises simulating the cleanup operation using a plurality of coupled simulators.
4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of coupled simulators comprises a commercial process facility simulator.
5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of coupled simulators comprises a wellbore clean-up simulator.
6 . The method of claim 3 , comprising determining, using a commercial process facility simulator, additional CO 2 emissions at the second time using outputs of a wellbore cleanup simulator.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the functional relationship includes determining a plurality of simulated CO 2 emissions for the plurality of sets of parameters.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the functional relationship includes determining fluid behavior as a function of a choke schedule.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the functional relationship between CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters includes at least one of equivalent CO 2 emissions based on energy consumption of equipment, flare CO 2 emissions emanating from gas flaring, or burning CO 2 emissions emanating from burning of liquid hydrocarbons.
10 . A system, comprising:
a processor and memory, the memory including instructions that cause the processor to:
at a first time before performing a cleanup operation of a wellbore, receive a plurality of sets of parameters related to the cleanup operation;
at the first time, simulate at least a portion of the cleanup operation using the plurality of sets of parameters to determine a functional relationship between CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters during the cleanup operation;
record pertinent results from simulating the portion of the cleanup operation;
store results comprising the CO 2 emissions for the cleanup operation in an a priori table;
at a second time while performing the cleanup operation, identify a set of real-world operating conditions associated with the cleanup operation;
at the second time, using the set of real-world operating conditions and the functional relationship between the CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters, interpolate operating CO 2 emissions from the a priori table; and
use the operating CO 2 emissions to manage the cleanup operation.
11 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions executable by a computer processor, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions to:
at a first time before performing a cleanup operation of a wellbore, receive a plurality of sets of parameters related to the cleanup operation;
at the first time, simulate at least a portion of the cleanup operation using the plurality of sets of parameters to determine a functional relationship between CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters during the cleanup operation, wherein the functional relationship includes fluid behavior as a function of a choke schedule;
record pertinent results from simulating the portion of the cleanup operation;
store results comprising the CO 2 emissions for the cleanup operation in an a priori table;
at a second time while performing the cleanup operation, identify a set of real-world operating conditions associated with the cleanup operation;
at the second time, using the set of real-world operating conditions and the functional relationship between the CO 2 emissions and the plurality of sets of parameters, interpolate operating CO 2 emissions from the a priori table; and
use the operating CO 2 emissions to manage the cleanup operation.