Patents by Inventor Zhouhua WANG

Zhouhua WANG 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: 12163905
    Abstract: A method for determining a phase-state type and saturation of a fluid by an NMR technology includes putting a core to be measured to an NMR phase-state testing device, injecting a heavy water solution from both ends of a gripper at the same time until the core reaches the formation pressure, and stopping; scanning the core to obtain a two-dimensional NMR map, and determining whether the core contains a gas phase; reducing the temperature of the gripper, and collecting an oil phase volume, a gas phase volume and a water phase volume discharged from the core; purge the pipelines out with nitrogen, collecting a water phase volume and an oil phase volume in the pipelines; performing dry distillation on the core to obtain an oil phase volume and a water phase volume; and obtaining the saturations of various phases according to the fluid volumes of multiple phases in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping Guo, Zheng Gu, Shuoshi Wang, Zhouhua Wang, Qinglong Xu, Shiyong Hu, Wenhua Zhao, Yisheng Hu, Huang Liu, Hanmin Tu
  • Patent number: 12092558
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gas based testing method for a pore volume compressibility of a low-permeability rock. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a compressibility and an isothermal adsorption-desorption curve of experimental gas under a reservoir condition; performing a physical simulation experiment by using a steel core drilled with a through hole, and obtaining a gas volume collected due to the deformation of an experimental instrument; then repeating the experiment by using an actual core with the same size, and obtaining pore volumes of the reservoir core under the experimental conditions by deducting deformation of the instrument; and finally, obtaining a pore compressibility of the reservoir core under different reservoir conditions according to the pore volumes of the reservoir core under different reservoir conditions. The present invention considers gas adsorption, corrects errors caused by deformation of a physical simulation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhouhua Wang, Hanmin Tu, Xintong Zhang, Ping Guo, Shuoshi Wang, Huang Liu, Zhicheng Yang, Xingliang Deng, Zhiliang Liu, Yisheng Hu, Hongnan Yang, Ping Le, Tongwen Jiang, Guangya Zhu, Nan Li
  • Publication number: 20240219329
    Abstract: A method for determining a phase-state type and saturation of a fluid by an NMR technology includes putting a core to be measured to an NMR phase-state testing device, injecting a heavy water solution from both ends of a gripper at the same time until the core reaches the formation pressure, and stopping; scanning the core to obtain a two-dimensional NMR map, and determining whether the core contains a gas phase; reducing the temperature of the gripper, and collecting an oil phase volume, a gas phase volume and a water phase volume discharged from the core; purge the pipelines out with nitrogen, collecting a water phase volume and an oil phase volume in the pipelines; performing dry distillation on the core to obtain an oil phase volume and a water phase volume; and obtaining the saturations of various phases according to the fluid volumes of multiple phases in the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ping GUO, Zheng GU, Shuoshi WANG, Zhouhua WANG, Qinglong XU, Shiyong HU, Wenhua ZHAO, Yisheng HU, Huang LIU, Hanmin TU
  • Patent number: 11940367
    Abstract: A device for simulating carbon dioxide storage in a deep saline aquifer, including a CO2 gas source, first and second valves, first and second pressure pumps, first, second and third pressure gauges, a water storage tank, a simulation box, a first flow meter, a gas-liquid separator, a recycling tank, a microcomputer-display assembly, a structure plate, core holders, an injection pipeline, a connection pipeline, a baffle, a piezometer, a second flow meter, a heater, a lifter and an acoustic logging tool. The CO2 gas source, the first valve, the first pressure pump and the first pressure gauge for gas injection. The water storage tank, a second pressure pump and a second pressure gauge for water injection. The second valve, the third pressure gauge, the first flow meter, the gas-liquid separator and the recycling tank form an output pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Ping Yue, Hongnan Yang, Yuan Lei, Xu Zheng, Peng Song, Pengyu Chen, Zhouhua Wang, Simin Qu
  • Publication number: 20240068923
    Abstract: A device for simulating carbon dioxide storage in a deep saline aquifer, including a CO2 gas source, first and second valves, first and second pressure pumps, first, second and third pressure gauges, a water storage tank, a simulation box, a first flow meter, a gas-liquid separator, a recycling tank, a microcomputer-display assembly, a structure plate, core holders, an injection pipeline, a connection pipeline, a baffle, a piezometer, a second flow meter, a heater, a lifter and an acoustic logging tool. The CO2 gas source, the first valve, the first pressure pump and the first pressure gauge for gas injection. The water storage tank, a second pressure pump and a second pressure gauge for water injection. The second valve, the third pressure gauge, the first flow meter, the gas-liquid separator and the recycling tank form an output pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ping YUE, Hongnan YANG, Yuan LEI, Xu ZHENG, Peng SONG, Pengyu CHEN, Zhouhua WANG, Simin QU
  • Publication number: 20230366869
    Abstract: A Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Deviation theory-based method is provided to prepare representative degassed oil with equivalent minimum miscible pressure to live oil. The method can reduce the number of trial and error type experiments during the representative degassed oil preparation process by measuring the MMP and EACN for dead and live oil. The representative degassed oil formulation could be easily predicted after determining the required MMP and EACN values. The prepared oil can reflect the key mechanism of multiple contact miscible mechanism in the process of gas flooding more accurately. It allows experiments that are inconvenient to use live oil to consider the mechanism of multiple contact miscibility easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Shuoshi WANG, Wenhua ZHAO, Ping GUO, Zhouhua WANG, Jianfen DU, Yisheng HU, Huang LIU
  • Patent number: 11668191
    Abstract: A device for testing the three-phase saturation of oil, gas and water in a high-temperature and high-pressure planar model includes a displacement pump, a confining pressure pump, a back pressure pump, containers, a planar model system, a data acquisition system, a back pressure valve and an oil-gas separator. The planar model system includes a planar model, an autoclave body, a heating temperature-controlling system, a Y-axis direction stepping motor, a X-axis direction stepping motor and an acoustoelectric detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping Guo, Zhouhua Wang, Yijian Chen, Bowen Sun, Chao Dong, Yisheng Hu, Shuoshi Wang
  • Patent number: 11459880
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for evaluating the difference in gas injection effect of gas injection wells in a carbonate reservoir, aiming at solving the problem that the difference in effect characters of gas injection wells cannot be systematically evaluated in the prior art, and realizing the purposes of systematically and completely evaluating the difference in gas injection effect in the carbonate reservoir and finding out the reason of low efficiency. By means of the invention, reasons for low gas injection efficiency corresponding to different geological classifications are obtained, systematic classification and induction are carried out on the difference in gas injection effect, and gas injection effects are effectively evaluated, so that a sufficient gas injection scheme design basis is provided for subsequent development and production increase, and a significant guiding principle is provided for later-stage gas injection and production increase of the carbonate reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yisheng Hu, Xuan Bai, Ping Guo, Jianfen Du, Zhouhua Wang, Huang Liu
  • Publication number: 20220290561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for testing the three-phase saturation of oil, gas and water in a high-temperature and high-pressure planar model, comprising a displacement pump 1, a confining pressure pump 2, a back pressure pump 3, containers, a planar model system 21, a data acquisition system 22, a back pressure valve 23 and an oil-gas separator 24. The planar model system includes a planar model 27, an autoclave body 31, a heating temperature-controlling system 34, a Y-axis direction stepping motor 35, a X-axis direction stepping motor 36 and an acoustoelectric detector 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ping GUO, Zhouhua WANG, Yijian CHEN, Bowen SUN, Chao DONG, Yisheng HU, Shuoshi WANG
  • Publication number: 20200340356
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for evaluating the difference in gas injection effect of gas injection wells in a carbonate reservoir, aiming at solving the problem that the difference in effect characters of gas injection wells cannot be systematically evaluated in the prior art, and realizing the purposes of systematically and completely evaluating the difference in gas injection effect in the carbonate reservoir and finding out the reason of low efficiency. By means of the invention, reasons for low gas injection efficiency corresponding to different geological classifications are obtained, systematic classification and induction are carried out on the difference in gas injection effect, and gas injection effects are effectively evaluated, so that a sufficient gas injection scheme design basis is provided for subsequent development and production increase, and a significant guiding principle is provided for later-stage gas injection and production increase of the carbonate reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Yisheng HU, Xuan BAI, Ping GUO, Jianfen DU, Zhouhua WANG, Huang LIU
  • Patent number: 10746638
    Abstract: A direct method for manufacturing a large model fractured core and maintaining original oil-water saturation, including the following steps: (1) determining the volume V, porosity ?, permeability K, oil saturation So, water saturation Sw and the like of a fractured core to be manufactured; (2) preparing simulated oil, and determining the used oil mass mo=Vo×?o; (3) under the circumstance of no consideration of oil saturation, acquiring the mass of the used water, cement and quartz sand; (4) while establishing oil saturation, acquiring the mass mw of water for manufacturing the core as mw=a?Vo×?w; (5) mixing oil, water and an emulsifier evenly to prepare an oil-in-water emulsion; (6) adding cement and quartz sand into the emulsion and stirring evenly to obtain cement slurry; (7) when a cement sample is in a semi-solidified state, cutting the cement sample with a steel wire; and (8) solidifying the cement sample to the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping Guo, Shuai Wu, Wanbo Zhang, Yisheng Hu, Yijian Chen, Huimin Zhang, Zhouhua Wang, Jianfen Du, Huang Liu, Hongmei Ren
  • Patent number: 10364184
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a big-model low-permeability microcrack core includes: (1) determining the size of a microcrack core to be manufactured; (2) placing stones in a baking oven to bake for 24h under 120° C., placing the stones into a mixer, mixing and spraying oil, enabling the oil to seep into the stone, evenly forming a thin oil film on stone's surface; (3) mixing the oil sprayed stone with quartz sand and cement, adding water to mix evenly to obtain cement paste; (4) spreading butter on core mold's inner surface to form a thin butter film, pouring the cement paste into the core mold to obtain a cement sample; (5) loading confining pressure outside the core according to the requirements of porosity and permeability of the mold to adjust a pore permeability value; (6) obtaining the big-model core with microcrack after the cement sample is dried and formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping Guo, Shuai Wu, Yijian Chen, Huimin Zhang, Wanbo Zhang, Yuhong Du, Zhouhua Wang, Jianfen Du, Yisheng Hu, Huang Liu, Hongmei Ren
  • Publication number: 20190002344
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a big-model low-permeability microcrack core includes: (1) determining the size of a microcrack core to be manufactured; (2) placing stones in a baking oven to bake for 24 h under 120° C., placing the stones into a mixer, mixing and spraying oil, enabling the oil to seep into the stone, evenly forming a thin oil film on stone's surface; (3) mixing the oil sprayed stone with quartz sand and cement, adding water to mix evenly to obtain cement paste; (4) spreading butter on core mould's inner surface to form a thin butter film, pouring the cement paste into the core mould to obtain a cement sample; (5) loading confining pressure outside the core according to the requirements of porosity and permeability of the mould to adjust a pore permeability value; (6) obtaining the big-model core with microcrack after the cement sample is dried and formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping GUO, Shuai WU, Yijian CHEN, Huimin ZHANG, Wanbo ZHANG, Yuhong DU, Zhouhua WANG, Jianfen DU, Yisheng HU, Huang LIU, Hongmei REN
  • Publication number: 20180348105
    Abstract: A direct method for manufacturing a large model fractured core and maintaining original oil-water saturation, including the following steps: (1) determining the volume V, porosity ?, permeability K, oil saturation So, water saturation Sw and the like of a fractured core to be manufactured; (2) preparing simulated oil, and determining the used oil mass mo=Vo×?o; (3) under the circumstance of no consideration of oil saturation, acquiring the mass of the used water, cement and quartz sand; (4) while establishing oil saturation, acquiring the mass mw of water for manufacturing the core as mw=a?Vo×?w; (5) mixing oil, water and an emulsifier evenly to prepare an oil-in-water emulsion; (6) adding cement and quartz sand into the emulsion and stirring evenly to obtain cement slurry; (7) when a cement sample is in a semi-solidified state, cutting the cement sample with a steel wire; and (8) solidifying the cement sample to the end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping GUO, Shuai WU, Wanbo ZHANG, Yisheng HU, Yijian CHEN, Huimin ZHANG, Zhouhua WANG, Jianfen DU, Huang LIU, Hongmei REN