A review of experimental and numerical modeling of digital coalbed methane: Imaging, segmentation, fracture modeling and permeability prediction

S Karimpouli, P Tahmasebi, HL Ramandi - International Journal of Coal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coalbed methane (CBM) is a form of natural gas that is extracted from coalbeds.
Characterization of CBMs is very challenging mostly due to the very complex fracture system …

Techniques in helical scanning, dynamic imaging and image segmentation for improved quantitative analysis with X-ray micro-CT

A Sheppard, S Latham, J Middleton, A Kingston… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper reports on recent advances at the micro-computed tomography facility at the
Australian National University. Since 2000 this facility has been a significant centre for …

Pore scale characterisation of coal: an unconventional challenge

P Mostaghimi, RT Armstrong, A Gerami, Y Hu… - Abu Dhabi …, 2016 - onepetro.org
Coal seam gas is an unconventional resource for natural gas that is becoming popular due
to its environmental benefit and abundance. This paper reviews recent developments on the …

Space-filling X-ray source trajectories for efficient scanning in large-angle cone-beam computed tomography

AM Kingston, GR Myers, SJ Latham… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new family of X-ray source scanning trajectories for large-angle cone-beam
computed tomography. Traditional scanning trajectories are described by continuous paths …

Investigation of supercritical CO2 mass transfer in porous media using X-ray micro-computed tomography

R Huang, AL Herring, A Sheppard - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the mass transfer of CO 2 into formation brine both qualitatively and
quantitatively is important for improving the security of geologic carbon sequestration. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Digital Cake Analysis: A Novel Coal Filter Cake Examination Technique Using Microcomputed Tomography

F Zhang, G Bournival, HL Ramandi, S Ata - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Filtration is crucial for separating solids and liquids in various industries. Understanding
slurry properties and filter cake structures is essential for optimising filtration performance …

Reprojection alignment for trajectory perturbation estimation in microtomography

SJ Latham, AM Kingston, B Recur… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For standard laboratory microtomography systems, acquired radiographs do not always
adhere to the strict geometrical assumptions of the reconstruction algorithm. The …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental simulation of burial diagenesis and subsequent 2D-3D characterization of sandstone reservoir quality

D Charlaftis, KJ Dobson, SJ Jones… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Characterization of deeply buried sandstones and their reservoir quality is of paramount
importance for exploring, developing, and subsurface storage of energy resources. High …

Large‐scale X‐ray microtomography analysis of fiber orientation in weld line of short glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic and related elasticity behavior

A Ayadi, H Nouri, S Guessasma… - Macromolecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale X‐ray microcomputed tomography (μ‐CT) is used to investigate microstructural
features of weld lines in a short glass fiber reinforced polymer. The main originality of this …

Multi-resolution radiograph alignment for motion correction in x-ray micro-tomography

SJ Latham, AM Kingston, B Recur… - Developments in X …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Achieving sub-micron resolution in lab-based micro-tomography is challenging due to the
geometric instability of the imaging hardware (spot drift, stage precision, sample motion) …