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Elsevier, Energy Procedia, (23), p. 521-526, 2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.06.033

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Pore-Scale Micro-CT Imaging: Cluster Size Distribution During Drainage and Imbibition

Journal article published in 2011 by A. Georgiadis, S. Berg ORCID, G. Maitland, H. Ott
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

In the present study we investigate the size and volume distribution of n-decane clusters in a brine saturated porous glass sample by means of micro-CT imaging with pore-scale resolution. Cluster size distribution functions and cluster volumes were obtained by image analysis for a range of injected pore volumes under both imbibition and drainage conditions, and with a field of view larger than the porosity-based representative elementary volume (REV). n-decane clusters were found to be distributed in sizes greater than that of the REV, with the largest one containing between 65 and 99% of the entire non-wetting phase. The results indicate that the two-phase REV may be substantially larger than for single-phase flow and larger than the attainable field of view.