The current conceptual picture of steady-state multiphase Darcy flow in porous media is that the fluid phases organize into separate flow pathways with stable interfaces. Here we demonstrate a previously unobserved type of steady-state flow behavior, which we term "dynamic connectivity," using fast pore-scale X-ray imaging. We image the flow of N2 and brine through a permeable sandstone at subs...

Coal combustion by-products such as fly ash (FA), brine and CO(2) from coal fired power plants have the potential to impact negatively on the environment. FA and brine can contaminate the soil, surface and ground water through leaching of toxic elements present in their matrices while CO(2) has been identified as a green house gas that contributes significantly towards the global warming effect...

The central rift of the Red Sea has 25 brine pools with different physical and geochemical characteristics. Atlantis II (ATIID), Discovery Deeps (DD) and Chain Deep (CD) are characterized by high salinity, temperature and metal content. Several studies reported microbial communities in these brine pools, but few studies addressed the brine pool sediments. Therefore, sediment cores were collecte...

We propose using the latest wide bore fast field cycling NMR relaxometers for measuring the nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion (NMRD) profiles of the logarithmic average proton-water <1/T1> in carbonate rock cores samples of 1 inch diameter and in different crude oil/brine mixings. The observed bilogarithmic frequency behaviours of the NMRD have been interpreted with a proposed theoretical ...

Abstract The Draupne shale is a rock formation functioning as overburden for gas reservoirs in the Norwegian Sea and potentially caprock future CO 2 storage locations well. In this paper, was exposed to several fluids: gas, supercritical , dissolved brine, well brine dry air. motivation exposure tests investigate whether injected reservoir coming into contact with could change caprock’s mechani...

To evaluate the gas production performance of the hydrate accumulations in the South China Sea, a numerical simulation with warm brine stimulation combined depressurization has been conducted. A dual horizontal well system is considered as the well configuration in this work. In order to reduce energy input and improve energy utilization, warm brine (<30 °C) instead of hot brine (>50 °C) is inj...

There is an increasing need for the desalination of high concentration brine (>TDS 35,000 ppm) efficiently and economically, either for the treatment of produced water from shale gas/oil development, or minimizing the environmental impact of brine from existing desalination plants. Yet, reverse osmosis (RO), which is the most widely used for desalination currently, is not practical for brine de...

We explore theoretically the controls on dissolution of salt A, in an under-saturated brine of salts A and B. We show that, as the concentration of B increases, the dissolution rate of A decreases, for brine of given temperature. We also show that there is a sharper decrease in dissolution rate with increasing concentration, for concentrations of B above a critical value, where B limits the equ...

We applied three-dimensional X-ray microtomography to image a capillary drainage process (0–1,000 kPa) in cm-scale heterogeneous laminated sandstone containing three distinct regions with different pore sizes study the pressure. used differential imaging distinguish solid, macropore, and five levels of subresolution phases associated each region. The brine saturation distribution was computed b...