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CT Measurements of Two-Phase Flow in Fractured Porous Media

Author(s) -

W.E. Brigham,

Castanier Louis M.,

Richard G. Hughes

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/9320

Subject(s) - displacement (psychology) , imbibition , capillary action , scanner , saturation (graph theory) , block (permutation group theory) , materials science , capillary pressure , porous medium , porosity , geology , multiphase flow , mechanics , composite material , geometry , optics , physics , mathematics , psychology , botany , germination , combinatorics , psychotherapist , biology

This report describes the design, construction, and preliminary results of an experiment that studies imbibition displacement in two fracture blocks. Multiphase (oil/water) displacements will be conducted at the same rate on three core configurations. The configurations are a compact core, a two-block system with a 1 mm spacer between the blocks, and a two-block system with no spacer. The blocks are sealed in epoxy so that saturation measurements can be made throughout the displacement experiments using a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. Preliminary results are presented from a water/air experiment. These results suggest that it is incorrect to assume negligible capillary continuity between matrix blocks as is often done

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