Shell-Imperial Grand Challenge Programme in Clean Fossil Fuels 1 Pore-Scale micro-CT imaging: Non-Wetting Phase Cluster Size Distribution as a Function of Interfacial Tension Apostolos Georgiadis 1,2 , Steffen Berg 1 , Geoffrey Maitland 2 and Holger Ott 1 1.Shell International Global Solutions BV, The Netherlands – [email protected]2.Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom – [email protected]TCCS-6 2011, Trondheim, Norway
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Shell-Imperial Grand Challenge Programme in Clean Fossil Fuels
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Pore-Scale micro-CT imaging: Non-Wetting
Phase Cluster Size Distribution as a Function of
Interfacial Tension
Apostolos Georgiadis1,2, Steffen Berg1, Geoffrey Maitland2 and Holger Ott1
1.Shell International Global Solutions BV, The Netherlands – [email protected]
2.Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom – [email protected]
TCCS-6 2011, Trondheim, Norway
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Introduction
• Motivation: Energy Demand and Greenhouse Gas Emission
• Shell – Imperial Collaboration on Clean Fossil Fuels
• Partially Miscible Phases of (aqueous + hydrocarbon + gas) systems
• Phase Behaviour and other Thermophysical Properties
• Interfacial Properties / Fluid Displacements in Porous Media
• Rock / Fluid Reactive Interactions (CO2 / H2S)
• Reservoir Conditions Experiments - Molecular Based (SAFT) Modelling
• Achieving More Realistic Reservoir Simulation
• Enhanced Oil recovery
• Carbon Storage / Capillary Trapping
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Capillary Trapping
Enhanced Oil Recovery / CCS
Oil WaterTrapped Oil Surrounding Water
100μm
1. Dawe, R.A., Ala, M. & Royal School of Mines (Great Britain). (1990) Reservoir physics at the pore scale. Seventy-five years of progress in oil field
science and technology, p. 177
2. IPCC, Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, 2005 (http://www.ipcc.ch)
3. Courtesy of S. Iglauer and C. Pentland, Imperial College Lodnon, 2010.