Prospect of wind energy application in China’s oilfields for heating

Abstract

In this paper, the wind energy resource in China’s oilfields is analyzed, the difference between China’s energy consumption structure and that of the world in average is analyzed as well, and the application prospect of wind heating technology in China’s oilfields is discussed as an example to reform China’s energy consumption structure. It shows that it is possible to use wind energy as an appropriate heat resource or supplementary heat source in some oilfields to supply heat energy for oil heating and living, more room to improve the energy resource utilization in various fields in China remain. It is a benefit to both oilfield and society to improve energy saving and environments.

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“…The installation of an orifice or throttle valve within the pipe system further increases heat generation [27,[46][47][48]. We assume that this application is called "liquid extrusion" [28,40] or "liquid squeezing" [40] despite that the terms were neither elaborated within the provided literature nor found in further research.…”

“…A further term for this concept is "viscous heating" [52]. For the sake of completeness, we mention "friction of solids" [28,38] as it is mentioned in the literature, but not further elucidated.…”

“…Most of the authors refer to this concept as "eddy currents" [10,59,[69][70][71]76]. Further denominations are "induction heater" [78], "induction retarder" [9], "electromagnetic induction" [34,38,39], and "magnetic vortex" [28].…”

“…In most of these applications, a central multimegawatt heat storage is proposed to stabilize the heat supply. The heat can be distributed via district heating or directly used as process heat for different industries, e.g., paper mills [29], greenhouses [26], breweries/distilleries [9], seawater desalination [31], oil fields [28], wine making, cattle farms, and tea processing [78]. Wind-powered thermal energy systems can also supply electricity to the grid when compromising a thermal engine (e.g., an organic Rankine cycle) to generate electricity.…”