An evaluation method of rock pore volume compressibility determination using a computed tomography scanned based finite element model

This paper has proposed a new perspective of studying internal structure-based tests, the results of which will improve the present experimental methods and enrich our understanding of rock structure-based modeling without any core preparations, with low cost in a short time. Pore volume compressibility (PVC) is an important feature of rock and is related to mechanical and structural behavior of porous rock sample. An accurate evaluation of pore volume compressibility depends on experimental test which is time-consuming and costly. This paper outlines new method for evaluation of PVC of rock cores using a computed tomography (CT) scan-based finite element method (FEM). The verification studies were performed on a series of porous rock cores which were extracted from deep oil reservoirs in Iran. In order to construct a finite element model, a relationship between spatial elastic properties of samples and CT-scanned data images was derived. The samples were scanned by a conic beam computed tomography (CBCT) machine, and the scanned data were converted into a model to simulate PVC tests. The pore volumetric strains were obtained from a linear elastic analysis for each stress and pore pressure step. To validate the finite element analysis (FEA) results, a series of experimental PVC tests were conducted on the pre-scanned samples and PVC curves were extracted. As a result, the predictions calculated from the CT scan-based numerical models have shown a good correlation with the results obtained from laboratory experiments. The results revealed that it is possible to simulate PVC tests using this numerical proposed evaluation method in such a way that the cost and time of the tests were lowered.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).