Identification

Title

X-ray Microtomography of Intermittency in Multiphase Flow at Steady State Using a Differential Imaging Method

Abstract

The images in this dataset are a sample of Bentheimer Sandstone from a micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scan acquired with a voxel resolution of 6.00µm. We imaged the steady state flow of brine and decane in Bentheimer sandstone. We devised an experimental method based on differential imaging to examine how flow rate impacts the pore-scale distribution of fluids during coinjection. This allows us to elucidate flow regimes (connected, or breakup of the nonwetting phase pathways) for a range of fractional flows at two capillary numbers, Ca, namely 3.0E-7 and 7.5E-6. At the lower Ca, for a fixed fractional flow, the two phases appear to flow in connected unchanging subnetworks of the pore space, consistent with conventional theory. At the higher Ca, we observed that a significant fraction of the pore space contained sometimes oil and sometimes brine during the 1 h scan: this intermittent occupancy, which was interpreted as regions of the pore space that contained both fluid phases for some time, is necessary to explain the flow and dynamic connectivity of the oil phase; pathways of always oil-filled portions of the void space did not span the core. This phase was segmented from the differential image between the 30 wt % KI brine image and the scans taken at each fractional flow. Using the grey scale histogram distribution of the raw images, the oil proportion in the intermittent phase was calculated. The pressure drops at each fractional flow at low and high flow rates were measured by high precision differential pressure sensors. The relative permeabilities and fractional flow obtained by our experiment at the mm-scale compare well with data from the literature on cm-scale samples.

Resource type

nonGeographicDataset

Resource locator

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ukccs/accessions/index.html#item118450

function: download

http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/db27d484-55b9-4897-9f0a-3d7de343d2c6

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607382

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Gao et al (2017) X-ray micro-tomography of intermittency in multiphase flow at steady state using a differential imaging method. Water Resources Research. DOI:10.1002/2017WR021736

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Porosity

Carbon capture and storage

originating controlled vocabulary

title

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2017

End position

2017

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2018

Frequency of update

notApplicable

Quality and validity

Lineage

Rock Samples were obtained from the Bad Benthenium, Germany. These were scanned using a Zeiss Xradia VersaXRM-500 Micro-CT scanner at an actual voxel (pixel) size of 6.00um. The output images are in a proprietary TXRM dataset format and include the metadata relating to the image acquisition scanner settings e.g. voxel size. The details of the sample preparation and fluid injection strategy can be found in Gao et al. (2017). The Fluid configurations during steady state brine/decane fractional flow coinjection for a range of fractional flows at two capillary numbers, Ca, namely 3.0E-7 and 7.5E-6. The image size was 1004x1024x1016 voxels. After reconstruction, all the images were resampled using the Lanczos algorithm (Burger & Burge, 2016). The TXRM files were then processed using Zeiss’s XMReconstructor software to give a stack of image slices in another proprietary TXM format.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

.TXM

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre

email address

not available

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre

email address

not available

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Imperial College London

full postal address

London

United Kingdom

email address

not available

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

organisation name

Imperial College London

full postal address

London

United Kingdom

email address

not available

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 131 667 1000

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-08-11

Metadata language

eng