scholarly journals Towards Bayesian Quantification of Permeability in Micro-scale Porous Structures – The Database of Micro Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
Babak Fazelabdolabadi ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Golestan

This article develops a Bayesian framework to quantify the absolute permeability of water in a porous structure from the geometry and clustering parameters of its underlying pore-throat network. These parameters include the network`s diameter, transivity, degree, centrality, assortativity, edge density, K-core decomposition, Kleinberg’s hub centrality scores, Kleinberg's authority centrality scores, length, and porosity. In addition, the incorporated clustering aspects of the networks have been determined with respect to several clustering criteria – edge betweenness, greedy optimization of modularity, multi-level optimization of modularity, and short random walks. As such, the article takes the first footsteps of creating a Database of Micro Networks for micro-scale porous structures, to be used as main input stream for the proposed Bayesian scheme. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2020-01-04-02 Full Text: PDF

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Menelisi Falayi ◽  
James Gambiza ◽  
Michael Schoon

The loss of ecosystem services through land degradation continues to be a significant concern for policymakers and land users around the world. Facilitating collective action among various actors is regarded as imperative in halting land degradation. Despite extensive research on collective action, there have been few studies that continuously map social ties and detect network evolution as a way of enabling longitudinal analysis of transformative spaces. This paper seeks to examine the changing dynamics of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over a period of two years in Machubeni, South Africa. To do this, we used social network analysis to detect continuities and/or discontinuities of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over time. Overall, edge density, clustering coefficient, and reciprocity scores steadily increased over the two years despite a decline in the number of active organisations within the network. Our results demonstrate that the proportion of strong ties gradually increased over time across three governance networks. However, multi-level linkages between the local municipality and the local organisations remained weak due to a lack of trust and collaborative fatigue. While the transformative space has succeeded in enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing between local organisations and researchers, further long-term engagement with government agencies might be necessary for promoting institutional transformations and policy outcomes, and building network resilience in complex polycentric governance systems.


Procedia CIRP ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Podshivalov ◽  
Cynthia M. Gomes ◽  
Andrea Zocca ◽  
Jens Guenster ◽  
Pinhas Bar-Yoseph ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yazhou Wang ◽  
Bochu Wang ◽  
Guixue Wang ◽  
Tieying Yin ◽  
Qingsong Yu

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liehui Zhang ◽  
Xiangyu Liu ◽  
Yulong Zhao ◽  
Yuan Zhou ◽  
Baochao Shan

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 2668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Adamek ◽  
Mikolaj Kozlowski ◽  
Mieczyslawa Jurczyk ◽  
Przemyslaw Wirstlein ◽  
Jakub Zurawski ◽  
...  

The paper presents a promising method of preparation of titanium-based foams by the thermal dealloying method. The first step of this study was the Ti-Ta-Mg based nanopowder preparation using the mechanical alloying (MA) process performed at room temperature. The next step was forming the green compacts by cold pressing and then sintering with magnesium dealloying from the titanium-based alloy structure. The mechanism of the porous structure formation was based on the removal of magnesium from the titanium alloy at a temperature higher than the boiling point of magnesium (1090 °C). The influence of the Mg content on the formation of the porous Ti-30Ta foam has been investigated. The sintering stage was performed in vacuum. During the dealloying process, the magnesium atoms diffuse from the middle to the surface of the sample and combine to form vapors and then evaporate leaving pores surrounded by the metallic scaffold. The porosity, the mechanical properties as well as biocompatibility have been investigated. The titanium-based foam of high porosity (up to 76%) and the pore size distribution from nano- to micro-scale have been successfully prepared. For the medical applications, the Ti-Ta metallic foams have shown a positive behavior in the MTT test. The as-shown results clearly exhibit a great potential for thermal dealloying in the preparation of porous structures.


Author(s):  
Mohamed R. Khodja ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Syed Rizwanullah Hussaini ◽  
Abdelwahab Z. Ali ◽  
Hani S. Al-Mukainah ◽  
...  

We describe a study focused on the absolute permeability of reservoir carbonate rocks from the Middle East and involving comparison of experimental data and numerical estimates obtained by combining digital-rock and Lattice-Boltzmann Methods (LBM). The question of the “representativeness” of the site at which the simulation is performed is addressed as follows. First, a low-resolution, CT X-ray scan of the core plug is performed to identify regions of large porosity (millimeter-sized vugs, etc.). These regions are then avoided to postselect smaller sites (site volume ~ 1 mm3) which are to be scanned at higher resolutions (voxel size < dominant pore-throat size of the core plug). A “representativeness” criterion based on an empirically-inspired “representativeness” measure (R-measure) is used to eliminate those sites for which R > b, where b is an upper bound (typically, b = 1). Essentially, the measure estimates how well the postselected sites capture the experimental porosity and the dominant pore-throat size of the core plug. This leads to a small set of sites for which the simulations are both computationally manageable and yield a reasonable estimate of the permeability: the experimental and predicted values differ by a factor of about 3 on average, which is a particularly significant result given the challenging heterogeneous pore space of carbonate samples. We believe the suggested methodology to be an adequate and practical way to circumvent upscaling.


2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Tauscheck Zielinski ◽  
Alexandre Campane Vidal ◽  
Guilherme Furlan Chinelatto ◽  
Leandro Coser ◽  
Celso Peres Fernandes

ABSTRACT. The recent increase in the use of X-ray microtomography (μ-CT) for reservoir rock characterization can be explained by numerous factors, such as its non-destructive nature, higher spatial resolution and 3D pore space visualization, which were explored in this work to evaluate the pore system of coquinas, a potential reservoir rock mainly composed of shells and their fragments. However, most of the recent studies have not considered an association between petrophysical parameters extracted via μ -CT and coquina facies. For this reason, this work had the goal to characterize the pore types, quantify total porosity, obtain the porosity profile, analyze the pore and pore-throat size distribution, as well as to extract additional petrophysical parameters of different taphofacies from Morro do Chaves Formation coquinas, Sergipe-Alagoas basin. The results haven shown that taphofacies from shallow sub-environment under normal conditions (group T2) and deeper sub-environment under storm influence (group T5) are better in terms of reservoir quality. Nevertheless, rocks from storm influence, deeper sub-environments are more likely to represent a good reservoir, since its pore system is predominantly dominated by moldic pores, which are originated during eogenetic phase, while rocks from shallow normal conditions have pores dominantly generated during telogenesis. Additionally, μ-CT derived data such as coordination number and pore and pore-throat sizes could also be used to explain differences in absolute permeability in the studied rocks. Nevertheless, our data suggests that coquinas have a multiscale pore system and finer imaging scales are indispensable for more accurate petrophysical characterization.  Keywords: Coquinas, μ-CT, petrophysics. RESUMO. A crescente utilização da microtomografia de raios-X (μ-CT) visando a caracterização das rochas reservatório pode ser explicada por diversos fatores, como sua natureza não-destrutiva, alta resolução espacial e visualização 3D do espaço poroso, que são propriedades exploradas nesse trabalho para avaliar o sistema poroso de coquinas, uma potencial rocha reservatório composta principalmente por conchas e seus respectivos fragmentos. Entretanto, a maioria dos estudos recentes não tem associado os parâmetros petrofísicos com as fácies de coquinas. Por essa razão, esse trabalho buscou realizar a caracterização dos tipos de poros, quantificar a porosidade total, obter o perfil de porosidade, analisar a distribuição do tamanho de poros e gargantas, assim como extrair parâmetros adicionais de diferentes tafofácies das coquinas da Fm. Morro do Chaves, Bacia de Sergipe-Alagoas. Os resultados mostraram que as tafofácies dos subambientes rasos sob condições normais de deposição (grupo T2) e dos subambientes profundos sob influência de tempestades (grupo T5) são melhores em termos de qualidade de reservatório. No entanto, as rochas de subambientes profundos sob influência de tempestades são mais prováveis de representarem bons reservatórios, pois seu sistema poroso é predominantemente dominado por poros móldicos, que são originados durante a fase eogenética, enquanto que as rochas depositadas no subambiente raso em condições normais possuem poros gerados durante a telogênese. Adicionalmente, dados derivados da μ-CT, como número de coordenação e tamanho de poros e gargantas, também poderiam ser usados para explicar as diferenças em permeabilidade absoluta nas rochas estudadas. Entretanto, nossos dados sugerem que as coquinas possuem um sistema poroso multiescalar e o imageamento em escalas mais finas para uma caracterização petrofísica mais acurada é indispensável.Palavras-chave: Coquinas, μ-CT, petrofísica


Author(s):  
Ferdinand Keller ◽  
Tatjana Stadnitski ◽  
Jakob Nützel ◽  
Renate Schepker
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Zusammenfassung. Fragestellung: Über Veränderungen in der emotionalen Befindlichkeit von Jugendlichen während einer Suchttherapie ist wenig bekannt. Methode: Die Jugendlichen füllten wöchentlich einen entsprechenden Fragebogen aus, analog ihre Bezugsbetreuer eine parallelisierte Kurzfassung. Von 42 Jugendlichen liegen insgesamt 853 Bogen und von den Bezugsbetreuern 708 Bogen vor. Die Fragebogen wurden zunächst faktorenanalytisch hinsichtlich ihrer Dimensionalität ausgewertet, anschließend wurden gruppenbezogene Verlaufsanalysen (Multi-Level-Modelle) und Abhängigkeitsanalysen auf Einzelfallebene (Zeitreihenanalysen) durchgeführt. Ergebnisse: Im Jugendlichenfragebogen ergaben sich vier Faktoren: negative Befindlichkeit, Wertschätzung von Therapie/Betreuung, Motivation und Suchtdynamik. Die Übereinstimmung zwischen den Jugendlichen- und der (einfaktoriellen) Betreuereinschätzung fiel insgesamt niedrig bis mäßig aus, brachte aber auf Einzelfallebene differenziertere Ergebnisse. Im Verlauf nahmen die Werte auf allen vier Jugendlichenskalen ab. Einzig der Verlauf der Wertschätzung in der Eingewöhnungsphase war prädiktiv für den späteren Abbruch der Maßnahme: Bei den Abbrechern nahm die Wertschätzung ab, während sie bei den Beendern initial stieg. Schlussfolgerungen: Der bedeutsamste Faktor in Bezug auf die Therapiebeendigung suchtkranker Jugendlicher scheint die Wertschätzung von Therapie/Betreuung zu sein, während die Motivation jugendtypische Schwankungen aufweist. Der Suchtdynamik kam eine deutlich weniger bedeutende Rolle zu als allgemein angenommen. Programme in der Langzeittherapie sollten die Wertschätzung von Therapie/Betreuung künftig mehr fokussieren als die Suchtdynamik.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
Yongjia Pu ◽  
Stephanie Dickinson ◽  
David M. DeJoy

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