电加热是原位开采油页岩的方法之一,电加热器是其关键的加热元件。通过MATLAB的PDE工具模拟电加热器的温度分布,探讨了加热器导热系数、热源密度、密度、比热容、加热器尺寸等参数对加热效果的影响,以此作为电加热器优化设计的依据。研究指出,密度小的材料有利于提高加热器的加热效率;导热系数对温度影响不大;比热容越高,加热器的整体温度越低;随热源密度的增加,加热器的温度显著增加;正交实验分析指出,热源密度、密度、比热容对加热器温度分布影响较大,导热系数影响很小;加热器半径增加,温度增加。优化设计的加热器的形状为轴对称U型管和真空加热管,加热元件的材料为铜和不锈钢等。井下原位电加热不仅可以应用在油页岩的开采中,未来也可以作为稠油的开采技术。
Electric heating is one of the ways to in-situ retorting oil shale, and electric heater is the key heating component. Through simulating temperature distribution of electric heater by PDE tool in MATLAB, this paper discusses the effect of heat conductivity coef-ifcient of the heater, heat source density, density, speciifc heat capacity, heater size, etc. on heater effectiveness and uses these parameters as the basis for design optimization of electric heaters. The research ifndings show that the materials with low density is helpful in im-proving heating efifciency of the heater;the heat conductivity coefifcient poses small effect on the temperature;the higher the speciifc heat capacity is, the lower the overall temperature of the heater is;with the increase of heat source density, the temperature of the heater is increased remarkably. Orthogonal experiment shows that heat source density, density and speciifc heat capacity have great effect on heater temperature distribution,