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Sci Data. 2018 Dec 11;5:180265. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.265.

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

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

Affiliations

  1. Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ London, U.K.
  2. Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy Inc., Pleasanton, CA, U.S.A.
  3. Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, U.K.

PMID: 30531856 PMCID: PMC6290644 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.265

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.

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