Patents by Inventor Dejun Wu

Dejun Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12055022
    Abstract: A method for realizing balanced displacement of crude oil by injection and production optimization coordinated chemical flooding which comprises the following steps: determining the median size and elastic modulus of viscoelastic particles according to the average permeability of the reservoir; optimizing the concentration ratio of the total concentration of the chemical agent; the physical parameters of each layer are counted, and the hierarchical system is combined according to the entropy weight algorithm and the cluster analysis method based on the gravity center method; the optimal section slug volume ratio of the single well injected with two slugs under the heterogeneity of the permeability of the strata is calculated; and the objective function is established by combining the coefficient of variation of remaining oil saturation, the effect of chemical flooding and the cost, and the numerical simulator is used to optimize the objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: China University of Petroleum (East China), Shandong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jian Hou, Kang Zhou, Qingjun Du, Yongge Liu, Yueliang Liu, Bei Wei, Dong Zhao, Zhibin An, Dejun Wu
  • Publication number: 20240183270
    Abstract: A gel particle-containing discontinuous phase seepage experimental apparatus includes a micro-liquid volume injection system, a pressure acquisition and transmission system, a microscopic observation system, and an in-microchannel particle screening and transfer system. According to the established discontinuous phase seepage experimental apparatus, particle sizes of gel particles are accurately screened by using a customized microfluidic chip, and transfer forms, existing states, pressure fluctuations, and the like of gel particles in a single-channel microfluidic chip under the conditions of different sizes, different elastic modulus, and different quantities are monitored in real-time by using a high-precision pressure sensing system and a microscopic observation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Jian Hou, Bei Wei, Yongsheng Liu, Kang Zhou, Qingjun Du, Yongge Liu, Ermeng Zhao, Dejun Wu
  • Publication number: 20240141766
    Abstract: A bidirectional self-regulating chemical flooding method and system for enhancing oil recovery includes: determining the average particle size of dispersed phase droplets under stable seepage flow of an oil-in-water emulsion according to the average reservoir permeability; determining injection concentration of an emulsifier which matches a target reservoir according to reservoir seepage velocity; under a condition of keeping the injection concentration of the emulsifier constant, determining the optimal injection concentration of a polymer which matches the injection concentration of the emulsifier through core flooding experiments with the maximum equivalent ton oil accumulation as a target; determining total injection amount of the emulsifier and total injection amount of the polymer for implementing well group units; and optimizing injection amount of the emulsifier and the polymer in each single well by using a numerical simulator of a chemical flooding reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jian Hou, Kang Zhou, Zhinbin An, Qingjun Du, Yongge Liu, Bei Wei, Dejun Wu, Shuai Liu
  • Publication number: 20220307356
    Abstract: A method for realizing balanced displacement of crude oil by injection and production optimization coordinated chemical flooding which comprises the following steps: determining the median size and elastic modulus of viscoelastic particles according to the average permeability of the reservoir; optimizing the concentration ratio of the total concentration of the chemical agent; the physical parameters of each layer are counted, and the hierarchical system is combined according to the entropy weight algorithm and the cluster analysis method based on the gravity center method; the optimal section slug volume ratio of the single well injected with two slugs under the heterogeneity of the permeability of the strata is calculated; and the objective function is established by combining the coefficient of variation of remaining oil saturation, the effect of chemical flooding and the cost, and the numerical simulator is used to optimize the objective function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jian Hou, Kang Zhou, Qingjun Du, Yongge Liu, Yueliang Liu, Bei Wei, Dong Zhao, Zhibin An, Dejun Wu