Pore-scale visualization of gas trapping in porous media by X-ray CT scanning

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 262-267

  Zhou, Na ^a,b   Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a   Suekane, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gas trapping; Porous media; Two phase flow; X ray CT scanning

Indexed keywords

BEREA SANDSTONE; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DENSE LAYER; FLOW DIRECTION; GAS INJECTION; GAS SATURATIONS; GAS TRAPPING; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IRREDUCIBLE WATER; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MICROSCOPIC POINTS; NETWORK SCALE; NON-WETTING; PERMEABLE LAYERS; POROUS LAYERS; POROUS MEDIA; RESIDUAL GAS SATURATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; TRAPPED BUBBLE; TRAPPED GAS; X-RAY CT; X-RAY CT SCANNER;

BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GASES; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ION BEAMS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISUALIZATION; WETTING; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955847244     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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