Construction of Dual Pore 3-D Digital Cores with a Hybrid Method Combined with Physical Experiment Method and Numerical Reconstruction Method

• Published in: Transport in porous media Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 227 - 238
• Main Authors: Lin, Wei, Li, Xizhe, Yang, Zhengming, Wang, Juan, Xiong, Shengchun, Luo, Yutian, Wu, Guoming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Classical and Continuum Physics; Computed tomography; Computer simulation; Construction methods; Digital imaging; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Economic models; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology; Hydrology/Water Resources; Image reconstruction; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Mathematical models; Model accuracy; Percolation; Simulated annealing; Micro-CT; Hybrid method; Lattice Boltzmann method; Simulated annealing method; Dual pore digital core
• ISSN: 0169-3913; 1573-1634
• DOI: 10.1007/s11242-017-0917-x

In order to further improve the accuracy of digital core modeling, a new hybrid method was proposed to construct the dual pore 3-D digital core with high precision. First of all, 3-D macro-pore digital cores were constructed by micro-CT. Secondly, based on the high-resolution 2-D scanning electron microscopy images of rock cores, micro-pore digital cores were constructed by simulated annealing method. And then, a superposition method was used to construct the digital core which could describe different pore characteristics. Finally, pore structures of digital cores were compared, and lattice Boltzmann method was used to analyze the percolation properties. The results show that the carbonate dual pore digital core constructed by the new hybrid method has a high accuracy, which can capture the pore properties of both macro-pore and micro-pore, and whose permeability simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental measurements. In addition, the new hybrid method is not only accurate and reliable, but also high efficient and economic, and can be applied to all kinds of reservoir modeling.