China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT)

Chaodong Xi

Yang Ju

Jiangtao Zheng

Changbing Wan

Wei Chang

Wenbo Gong

An experiment system and transparent experiment method for replicating fluid displacement in a pore structure of a natural rock mass are provided. The natural pore structure is extracted and a digital porous model corresponding to the natural rock mass is reconstructed with the image processing method. Based on the digital porous model, a three-dimensional pore structure model with a transparent and visible internal structure is printed by a 3D printing device, such that the pore space inside the three-dimensional pore structure model is visible. In this way, the whole fluid flow during the displacement-seepage process within the natural rock mass can be replicated and visually observed from the outside when performing the displacement-seepage experiment. Further, temperature, flow rate, and pressure can be accurately controlled, to replicate various experiment conditions, so as to perform quantitative analysis on distribution features of a seepage field and a fluid speed field.

Three-dimensional pore structure model and method for fabricating the same, experiment system and transparent experiment method for replicating fluid displacement process within rock pore structure

A visualization system and method for a multiphase fluids displacement seepage experiment with large viscosity difference in a complex pore structure. The visualization system includes: an injection pump assembly, a visualized complex pore model, a vacuum pressure pump and an image acquisition device; the system and method are printed by a 3D printing device to form the visualized complex pore model with at least two permeability, and displacement fluid mediums of different viscosities are injected into the visualized complex pore model through different injection pumps during an experiment, so that not only is the penetration of the same viscosity in the complex pore structure with different permeability observed, but also the displacement and plugging effect of different viscosities successively entering the complex pore structure with different permeability is realized.

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Chaodong Xi