ACCURATE PREDICTION OF PERMEABILITY IN POROUS MEDIA: EXTENSION OF PORE FRACTAL DIMENSION TO THROAT FRACTAL DIMENSION

Wenhui Song, Jun Yao, Kai Zhang, Yongfei Yang and Hai Sun
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Wenhui Song: Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, P. R. China2School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, P. R. China, 266580, P. R. China
Jun Yao: Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, P. R. China2School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, P. R. China, 266580, P. R. China
Kai Zhang: Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, P. R. China2School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, P. R. China, 266580, P. R. China
Yongfei Yang: Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, P. R. China2School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, P. R. China, 266580, P. R. China
Hai Sun: Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development, (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, P. R. China2School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, P. R. China, 266580, P. R. China

FRACTALS (fractals), 2022, vol. 30, issue 03, 1-8

Abstract: Fractal characteristic has been considered as the essential parameter to determine transport properties of porous media. Fluid flow in the real porous media is more influenced by the narrow throat system than the relatively large pore system. In this work, the concept of throat fractal dimension is proposed and applied to predict permeability in porous media. First, pore system and throat system of six sandstone rock samples and three carbonate rock samples are divided from the pore network models extracted from rock CT images. Then, fractal dimensions based on the total pore space, pore system and throat system are calculated, respectively, based on the three-dimensional (3D) box-counting method. Three groups of permeabilities are estimated, respectively, using the fractal theory based on the pore space fractal parameter, pore system fractal parameter and the proposed throat system fractal parameter. The results indicate that permeabilities estimated by the proposed throat system fractal parameter are closer to the accurate permeabilities of rock samples compared with that estimated by the pore space fractal parameter and pore system fractal parameter. Our study results reveal that throat fractal dimension should be used to accurately predict fluid transport properties in porous media.

Keywords: Throat Fractal Dimension; Pore Fractal Dimension; Pore Network Model; Fluid Permeability; Porous Media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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