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DOI | 10.1029/2020WR027473 |
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Characterize Capillary Flow and Residual Trapping | |
Hailun Ni; Sally M. Benson | |
2020-06-29 | |
发表期刊 | Water Resources Research
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出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | Recent research has highlighted the impact mesoscale heterogeneity can have on larger‐scale multiphase fluid flow properties. However, currently there is no consensus on how to quickly and reliably analyze coreflooding experimental data to gain insights into mesoscale capillary dominated flow behaviors and how rock petrophysical properties affect such behaviors. In this study, we combine a machine learning‐based clustering method with physics‐based hypothesis testing to analyze multistage steady‐state coreflooding experimental data. By examining five different sets of coreflooding data, we have found that under capillary dominated flow regimes voxel‐level CO2 saturation fields are much more heterogeneous as capillary equilibrium is approached. CO2 saturation time series behaviors are distinctively different between high and low permeability voxels. However, the effect of mesoscale permeability greatly diminishes under viscous dominated flow regimes. By computing the maximum and optimal number of clusters on the CO2 saturation time series data, we are able to differentiate between these two flow regimes. Through this analysis method, it is now also possible to identify regions within a sandstone core with capillary heterogeneity trapping behaviors. It is confirmed that capillary heterogeneity trapping indeed occurs upstream of capillary barriers. Furthermore, we have discovered a new type of capillary heterogeneity trapping – one that occurs within the capillary barrier itself, which can cause parts of the core to achieve residual CO2 saturations much higher than expected based on existing models of residual gas trapping. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/281783 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hailun Ni,Sally M. Benson. Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Characterize Capillary Flow and Residual Trapping[J]. Water Resources Research,2020. |
APA | Hailun Ni,&Sally M. Benson.(2020).Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Characterize Capillary Flow and Residual Trapping.Water Resources Research. |
MLA | Hailun Ni,et al."Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Characterize Capillary Flow and Residual Trapping".Water Resources Research (2020). |
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