Imperial College Consortium on Pore-Scale Modelling

Annual Review 13th January 2014

Martin Blunt

Department of Earth Science and EngineeringImperial College London

Agenda

9:30am Coffee10:00am Martin Blunt: Welcome and review of progress  10:15am Matthew Andrew: Reservoir-condition pore-scale imaging: contact angle, wettability, dynamics and trapping11:00am  Kamal Singh: Pore-scale imaging of fluid flow through porous media using synchrotron X-ray mirco-tomography11:30am Joao Nunes: Pore-scale modelling of dissolution and comparison with experiment12:00pm Zaki Al-Nahari: Simulation of reactive transport on pore-space images

12:30pm Lunch

1:45pm Branko Bijeljic: Giga-scale simulation and analysis2:15pm  Ali Raeini: Direct simulation of multiphase flow and the balance of forces3:00pm Rafi Blumenfeld: Statistical mechanics for structure-property relations in 3D: Formulation and tests3:30pm Edo Boek: Pore-scale events to relative permeability using micro-models and lattice Boltzmann simulations4:00pm Tarik Saif: Planned research on unconventional oil and gas4:15pm  Discussion and close

6:30pm Dinner: Polish Club 

Reporting and new ideas for 2014All our publications, theses, reports and presentations are available on our website:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/perm/porescalemodelling

•Giga-scale imaging, simulation and analysis.

•Reservoir-condition pore-scale imaging of displacement and reaction coupled with direct simulation of these processes.

•Pore-scale analysis of force balances and rigorous pore-to-network upscaling.

•More emphasis on validation and direct pore-space computation.

Personnel and projectsCurrent group:•Martin Blunt, Professor of Petroleum Engineering – overall supervision.

•Branko Bijeljic, Research Fellow – dispersion and reactive transport in porous media.

•Edo Boek, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering – fundamentals of flow in porous media and wettability.

•Rafi Blumenfeld, Research Fellow – statistical analysis of granular packs. 

•Ali Raeini – Post-doc, multiphase flow on pore-space images (Total project).

•Zaki Al-Nahari – 3rd year PhD student – Reactive transport.

•Matthew Andrew – 3rd year PhD student – Pore-scale imaging.

•João Paulo Nunes – 2nd year PhD student – Reactive transport and multiphase flow.

•Tarik Saif– 1st year PhD student – Oil shale.

Plus interaction with the Qatar programme (Kamal Singh etc).

Challenges from 2013• Dealing with data over a range of scales. How to have a

representative image or network: developing multiscale – macro and micro-porosity – networks and a generalized network generation methof.

• Computational efficiency on new platforms. Continue to improve computational efficiency – billion-cell simulation.

• Improved network extraction and modelling. How reliable are our extraction algorithms? Use pore-level direct simulation to upscale properties rigorously.

• Wettability characterization and pore-scale verification. Pore-by-pore contact angle measurement in situ at reservoir conditions.

• What do we use pore-scale modelling for? Balance of forces, start of upscaling, identification of the generic nature of transport.

Many thanks

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