Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Dhahran, SA)

This specification could be implemented in a system with an emulator that is three-dimensional. An image processing module acquires the image of a rock sample with a porous network that are transformed by a transformation module. the image into a binary matrix to determine a set of statistical moments for the binary matrix. A layer generation module generates a first representation of the first stochastic layer based on the set and emulatives of the rock sample and creates another representation of an additional stochastic layer, that is based upon the set and emulative of the rock sample. The arrangement module organizes both representations as adjacent layers within a 3-dimensional model that is emulative the rock sample. It then sends the first and second representations to the 3D fabricator for the creation of an actual three-dimensional micromodel of fluids.

Pore-scale process is used to determine multiphase flow of liquids with miscibility within porous media. For a larger scale assessment of the behavior of fluids in porous media, pore-level measurements are a viable option. These observations are used to confirm porous network models as directly numerical simulations of fluid flow.

To create micromodels, the etching of glass or silicon wafers using photolithographic techniques is often employed. These methods produce a two-dimensional pore network which is evenly etched to a uniform size. There is little or any connectivity in the third dimension. Micromodels currently do not be able to capture the interconnectedness of reservoir rocks because such rocks have connectivity in three dimensions.

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