Experimental Study on Fluid Flow in Porous Media by MRI Technique

DOI

10.2991/mme-16.2017.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Core flood experiment, Porous media, MRI, Displacement front, Density difference.

Abstract

Core flood experiment is commonly used to study the fluid seepage law in porous media for enhanced oil recovery, but the characteristics of fluid flow are hard to be visually described. In this paper, an advanced visual displacement system was developed and optimized to observe the shapes of flow front in the porous media. Interestingly, it is found that the flow front shows the triangular shape which can deteriorate the oil recovery. In response to this phenomenon, a series of visually core flood experiments were conducted to study the formation reasons and influencing factors of the triangular shape. Experimental results show that the density difference between the displacing and the displaced fluid is the direct factor which causes the triangular shape of the displacement front. This result suggests that the density difference between the displacing and the displaced fluid should be taken into account during oil production as well as experimental study.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jing-Nan Zhang
AU  - Qin-Feng Di
AU  - Feng Ye
AU  - Shuai Hua
AU  - Hui-Juan Chen
AU  - Chun-Yuan Gu
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Experimental Study on Fluid Flow in Porous Media by MRI Technique
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (MME 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 22
EP  - 29
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mme-16.2017.3
DO  - 10.2991/mme-16.2017.3
ID  - Zhang2016/12
ER  -