Three-phase flow displacement dynamics and Haines jumps in a hydrophobic porous medium.

enhanced oil recovery gas injection porous media synchrotron imaging three-phase flow wettability

Journal

Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
ISSN: 1364-5021
Titre abrégé: Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9891746

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2020
Historique:
received: 21 08 2020
accepted: 19 11 2020
entrez: 6 1 2021
pubmed: 7 1 2021
medline: 7 1 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We use synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography to investigate the displacement dynamics during three-phase-oil, water and gas-flow in a hydrophobic porous medium. We observe a distinct gas invasion pattern, where gas progresses through the pore space in the form of disconnected clusters mediated by double and multiple displacement events. Gas advances in a process we name three-phase Haines jumps, during which gas re-arranges its configuration in the pore space, retracting from some regions to enable the rapid filling of multiple pores. The gas retraction leads to a permanent disconnection of gas ganglia, which do not reconnect as gas injection proceeds. We observe,

Identifiants

pubmed: 33402876
doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0671
pii: rspa20200671
pmc: PMC7776970
doi:

Banques de données

figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5230608']

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

20200671

Informations de copyright

© 2020 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

We declare we have no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Abdulla Alhosani (A)

Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Alessio Scanziani (A)

Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Qingyang Lin (Q)

State Environmental Protection Engineering Center for Coal-Fired Air Pollution Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China.

Ahmed Selem (A)

Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Ziqing Pan (Z)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Martin J Blunt (MJ)

Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Branko Bijeljic (B)

Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

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