Capillary pressure and heterogeneity for the CO 2/water system in sandstone rocks at reservoir conditions

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-59

  Pini, Ronny ^a   Krevor, Samuel C M ^a   Benson, Sally M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; CO 2 sequestration; Heterogeneity; Multiphase properties

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; CONFINING PRESSURES; FLUID SATURATIONS; HETEROGENEITY; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MEDICAL X-RAYS; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY; MULTIPHASE PROPERTIES; NON-WETTING; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; ROCK CORE; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION; WETTING PHASE; X-RAY CT;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; LITHOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS PLATES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SANDSTONE; SCANNING; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS; WETTING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONFINING PRESSURE; DRAINAGE WATER; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; LITHOLOGY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POREWATER; RESERVOIR ROCK; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 84855878557     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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