Chemical and reactive transport processes associated with hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales

AD Jew, JL Druhan, M Ihme, AR Kovscek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales has changed the energy landscape of
the US Recovery of hydrocarbons from tight, hydraulically fractured shales is a highly …

Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?

Y Mehmani, T Anderson, Y Wang, SA Aryana… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shales will play an important role in the successful transition of energy from fossil-based
resources to renewables in the coming decades. Aside from being a significant source of …

Recent advances in multiscale digital rock reconstruction, flow simulation, and experiments during shale gas production

Y Yang, F Liu, Q Zhang, Y Li, K Wang, Q Xu… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The complex and multiscale nature of shale gas transport imposes new challenges to the
already well-developed techniques for conventional reservoirs, especially digital core …

Multi-scale reconstruction of porous media from low-resolution core images using conditional generative adversarial networks

Y Yang, F Liu, J Yao, S Iglauer, M Sajjadi… - Journal of natural gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
Various rocks such as carbonate, coal or shale contain both micro-and macro-pores. To
accurately predict the fluid flow and mechanical properties of these porous media, a multi …

[PDF][PDF] 基于机器学习的矿物智能识别方法研究进展与展望

郝慧珍, 顾庆, 胡修棉 - 地球科学, 2021 - researchgate.net
矿物智能识别是地球科学与信息科学的重要交叉方向, 显示出强大的生命力.
本文在调研国内外研究动态的基础上, 把矿物智能识别划分为4 个阶段, 即矿物采集, 数据获取 …

Review of shale gas transport prediction: Basic theory, numerical simulation, application of ai methods, and perspectives

Z Jiang, W Wang, H Zhu, Y Yin, Z Qu - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
The gas transport mechanism in shale reservoirs is extremely complex and is a typical
multiscale and multiphysics coupled transport process, considering the complex shale rock …

Pore network characterization of shale reservoirs through state-of-the-art X-ray computed tomography: A review

Q Liu, M Sun, X Sun, B Liu, M Ostadhassan… - Gas Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shale microstructures control the capacity of the formation to store hydrocarbons and its fluid
flow. However, microstructural complexity and multiscale heterogeneity is a challenge in a …

Opportunities and limits in imaging microorganisms and their activities in soil microhabitats

C Védère, LV Gonod, N Nunan, C Chenu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The soil microhabitat is a heterogeneous and complex environment where local variations
can modulate phenomena observed at the plot scale. Most of the current methods used to …

Research progress of nano-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) in soil science: Evolution, applications, and challenges

Q Li, J Chang, L Li, X Lin, Y Li - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Nano-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) has emerged as a powerful
analytical tool for investigating various aspects of soils. In recent decades, the widespread …

MudrockNet: Semantic segmentation of mudrock SEM images through deep learning

A Bihani, H Daigle, JE Santos, C Landry… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Segmentation and analysis of individual pores and grains of mudrocks from scanning
electron microscope images is non-trivial because of imaging artifacts, variation in pixel …