Time-resolved synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography datasets of drainage and imbibition in carbonate rocks

Kamaljit Singh, Hannah Menke, Matthew Andrew, Christoph Rau, Branko Bijeljic, Martin J. Blunt

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Abstract

Multiphase flow in permeable media is a complex pore-scale phenomenon, which is important in many natural and industrial processes. To understand the pore-scale dynamics of multiphase flow, we acquired time-series synchrotron X-ray micro-tomographic data at a voxel-resolution of 3.28 μm and time-resolution of 38 s during drainage and imbibition in a carbonate rock, under a capillary-dominated flow regime at elevated pressure. The time-series data library contains 496 tomographic images (gray-scale and segmented) for the complete drainage process, and 416 tomographic images (gray-scale and segmented) for the complete imbibition process. These datasets have been uploaded on the publicly accessible British Geological Survey repository, with the objective that the time-series information can be used by other groups to validate pore-scale displacement models such as direct simulations, pore-network and neural network models, as well as to investigate flow mechanisms related to the displacement and trapping of the non-wetting phase in the pore space. These datasets can also be used for improving segmentation algorithms for tomographic data with limited projections.
Original languageEnglish
Article number180265
JournalScientific Data
Volume5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2018

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