Granted Patent
B2
US 12,650,372 · App. 18/206,708 · Granted Jun 9, 2026
Method and system for automated in-situ capillary pressure and wettabilty characterization of porous media
Inventors:
Ahmed Zankoor (Fort Collins, CO); Mahdi Khishvand (Laramie, WY); Mohammad Piri (Laramie, WY)
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
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Abstract
A method and system for non-destructive characterization of porous media samples are disclosed. The method for porous media characterization by one or more central processing units (CPUs) includes obtaining one or more segmented images from a set of images of a porous media sample, determining one or more fluid-fluid interfaces (FFIs) within one or more segmented images for each pixel of the one or more segmented images, and based at least in part on the FFIs, extracting one or more characteristics of the porous media sample.
Claims (74)
1 . A method for porous media characterization by one or more central processing units (CPUs), comprising:
obtaining one or more segmented images from a set of images of a porous media sample;
determining one or more fluid-fluid interfaces (FFIs) within one or more segmented images for each pixel of the one or more segmented images; and
based at least in part on the one or more FFIs, extracting one or more characteristics of the porous media sample, comprising:
determining one or more three-phase contact lines (TCLs) within the one or more segmented images;
generating one or more two-dimensional (2D) slices of the one or more segmented images perpendicular to each of the one or more TCLs;
processing the one or more 2D slices to map each pixel of the one or more 2D slices to at least one of:
a TCL:
an FFI;
a fluid-solid interface (FSI);
a solid phase;
a wetting phase; or
a non-wetting phase; and
determining one or more contact angles of the porous media sample.
2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, from a scanning instrument, the set of images of the porous media sample.
3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
outputting one or more characteristics of the porous media sample; and
outputting data and visualization metrics corresponding to the one or more characteristics of the porous media sample.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more FFIs comprises determining at least one volume associated with one or more phases within the one or more segmented images.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more FFIs comprises:
extracting one or more initial FFIs from the one or more segmented images;
generating one or more FFIs by smoothing the one or more initial FFIs; and
determining a surface curvature at each point of the one or more FFIs.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein extracting the one or more initial FFIs comprises generating a triangular mesh, wherein each triangle of the triangular mesh traverses one or more voxels within the one or more segmented images.
7 . The method of claim 5 , wherein generating the one or more FFIs by smoothing comprises applying an implicit fairing integration to a triangular mesh.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein extracting the one or more characteristics of the porous media sample comprises determining capillary pressures for the porous media sample based at least in part on a curvature measured at each vertex defined within a triangular mesh.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein extracting the one or more characteristics of the porous media sample comprises determining one or more capillary pressures for the one or more FFIs based at least in part on interfacial tension between a wetting phase and a non-wetting phase and a curvature.
10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the one or more 2D slices comprises mapping each pixel of the one or more 2D slices to identify one point of a TCL, an FFI, a fluid-solid interface (FSI), a solid, a wetting phase, or a non-wetting phase.
11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more TCLs comprise fluid-fluid-solid contact points.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more contact angles comprises at least one of:
measuring one or more contact angles based on a set of tangents associated with a set of FFIs; and
measuring one or more contact angles based on a set of tangents associated with a set of FSIs.
13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more TCLs comprises:
extracting initial TCLs within the one or more segmented images based at least in part on boundary edges identified in a triangular mesh generated from the one or more FFIs and a connectivity of vertices of the boundary edges in three-dimensional (3D) space; and
generating the one or more TCLs by smoothing the one or more initial TCLs.
14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the one or more 2D slices of the one or more segmented images perpendicular to each of the one or more TCLs comprises:
generating a set of successive points for each of the one or more TCLs in proximity to a starting point on each of the one or more TCLs;
determining a vector tangential to each of the one or more TCLs; and
generating the one or more 2D slices based, at least in part, on the vector and coordinates of the starting point.
15 . The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the one or more 2D slices comprises:
extracting at least one sub-slice surrounding a target point from the one or more 2D slices;
determining pixels within the at least one sub-slice to represent a TCL, a FFI, a FSI, a solid, a wetting phase, or a non-wetting phase; and
generating a tangent to the solid surface based at least in part on the pixels representing the FSI.
16 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising extracting a set of acceptable 2D slices from the one or more 2D slices based on a number of pixels representing the FFI and the FSI present within each slice.
17 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the porous media sample is a digital rock sample.
18 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause one or more central processing units (CPUs) to:
obtain one or more segmented images from a set of images of a porous media sample;
determine one or more fluid-fluid interfaces (FFIs) within one or more segmented images for each pixel of the one or more segmented images; and
based at least in part on the one or more FFIs, extract one or more characteristics of the porous media sample, comprising:
determining one or more three-phase contact lines (TCLs) within the one or more segmented images;
generating one or more two-dimensional (2D) slices of the one or more segmented images perpendicular to each of the one or more TCLs;
processing the one or more 2D slices to map each pixel of the one or more 2D slices to at least one of:
a TCL:
an FFI;
a fluid-solid interface (FSI);
a solid phase;
a wetting phase; or
a non-wetting phase; and
determining one or more contact angles of the porous media sample.
19 . An apparatus for porous media characterization comprising a memory and one or more central processing units (CPU), the one or more CPUs configured to cause the apparatus to:
obtain one or more segmented images from a set of images of a porous media sample;
determine one or more fluid-fluid interfaces (FFIs) within one or more segmented images for each pixel of the one or more segmented images; and
based at least in part on the one or more FFIs, extract one or more characteristics of the porous media sample, comprising:
determining one or more three-phase contact lines (TCLs) within the one or more segmented images;
generating one or more two-dimensional (2D) slices of the one or more segmented images perpendicular to each of the one or more TCLs;
processing the one or more 2D slices to map each pixel of the one or more 2D slices to at least one of:
a TCL;
an FFI:
a fluid-solid interface (FSI);
a solid phase;
a wetting phase; or
a non-wetting phase; and
determining one or more contact angles of the porous media sample.
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST
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From: ZANKOOR, AHMED; KHISHVAND, MAHDI; PIRI, MOHAMMAD
To: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
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