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Summary

This work aims to reduce this uncertainty in pressure distribution by providing a more detailed knowledge of mineralization related flow heterogeneity using both X-ray computed tomography and scanning electron microscopy.

In this study, volume images of representative samples of the mineralized Zubair sandstones obtained using x-ray computed tomography are to be used as the basis for computational fluid dynamical (CFD) modelling. Three phase segmentation will enable the pore space, quartz matrix and in-situ pyrite to be isolated from the volume images, enabling mineralized and unmineralized mesh based representations of the samples to be generated. An integrated studies were done using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), energy disperssive spectrum (EDS) and X-ray computed tomography.

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2015-11-16
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