6/19/2002

Student Name: Rajesh Pillai

Committee:
Dr. Aiichiro Nakano (Chair)
Dr. Donald H.Kraft
Dr. Bert R. Boyce

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: 297 Coates Hall

Title:Online Simulation, Development and Validation of an Automated Coreflood Apparatus

Abstract:
Petroleum reservoir models (Corefloods) in the Enhanced Oil Recovery Laboratory in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Louisiana State University provide extensive data at controlled conditions and allow the investigation of selected parameters. The primary focus of this project is to reduce the time required for each experiment by automating the experimental setup so as to schedule and monitor the coreflood experiments and capture real-time data and allowing online retrieval of the data and simulation results obtained from these experiments.

A robust web based system, using three-tier architecture, has been developed for scheduling, monitoring, allowing safety shutdowns and producing simulated outputs from remote locations. Only authorized clients are allowed to logon to the system after the authentication of their user ids and password. The clients can run simulations with the real-time data collected in the database or with their own data and view plots online and download the database files from the server.

An XML-Database interface is created to transform information from a hierarchical XML representation into persistent, relational database data and vice-versa. Information in XML documents is used to update the status of a corresponding database, making the database consistent with the XML file content. The application is database-independent. It is designed to achieve the required transformations, irrespective of the database schema.

The reports are generated as excel spreadsheets and the file is emailed to the client along with the plots generated from each simulation run.

Software used in this project: Visual Basic, FORTRAN, Perl CGI, ASP, ComponentOne Chart.

All are welcome!