Post by Mathias B Steiner

IBM Research’s #openscience toolkit for simulating carbon dioxide geologic storage in #digitalrock is now fully available. We are excited to complete the release of FlowDiscovery, a computational toolkit first introduced by IBM’s Brazil Research Lab 5 years ago. In a paper published today in the journal Transport in Porous Media, we use FlowDiscovery for investigating brine injection and calcium carbonate precipitation in sandstone at reservoir conditions. The simulations track carbon mineralization across the microscopic network, within each capillary of the digital rock’s connected pore space. The process gradually reduces the diameter of capillaries and causes the porosity and permeability of the rock to degrade. Depending on flow conditions, the rock might not “live up” to its full geologic storage potential. You can now use FlowDiscovery for simulating carbon dioxide injection and mineralization at pore scale, and for exploring reservoir-specific, geologic storage conditions. Highlights - + Create digital rock from 3-d, micro-CT images of sandstone and carbonate plugs - 1TB+ of high-resolution rock data available. + Apply best-in-class algorithm for representing rock pore space as a capillary network model while preserving critical morphologic features. + Use open-source code and automated simulation framework for single-phase, two-phase, reactive flow simulations in digital rock.   Methods & Use Cases - + Rock porosity and permeability - https://rdcu.be/eoXO5 + Carbon dioxide drainage - https://rdcu.be/eoXO3 + Carbon mineralization - https://lnkd.in/gSwNT7jD + FlowDiscovery Video (2020) - https://lnkd.in/dixu9wdU Open Code - + Visualize rock microtomography data - https://lnkd.in/gYwSF6ad + Create capillary network models - https://lnkd.in/gUGq4xxw + Simulate (reactive) flow in digital rock - https://lnkd.in/gDdHzguu + Automate flow simulations - https://lnkd.in/gcXZuUSx Open Data - + Microtomographic rock data bases - https://lnkd.in/g72B2zq4 & https://lnkd.in/gFhpEzcQ Congratulations and thanks to our contributors, partners, supporters:   Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, Ronaldo Giro, Matheus Esteves, Ademir Ferreira da Silva, Michael Engel, Benjamin Wunsch, Peter Bryant, Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Alexandre Lassance Cunha, Ph.D., David Lazo-Vasquez, Rodrigo A. P. da Silva, Hugo Barbalho, Manuela Blanco Rodriguez, Adolfo Correa, Gustavo Figueiredo, Ítalo Nievinski, Marcio Nogeira Pereira da Silva, William Fernando Lopez Candela, Mariana Del Grande, Filipe Viana Ferreira, Everton Lucas de Oliveira, Mariane Andreeta, Arthur Gustavo de Araujo-Ferreira, Renato Soares, Willian T., Vassilis Vassiliadis, Alessandro Pomponio, Michael Johnston, Jed Pitera, Juliana Setembro, Alexandre Pfeifer, Ulisses Mello, Bruno Flach, Claudius Feger, Marcio Carvalho, Jorge Luis Baliño, Félix Gonçalves, Christian B. Eckardt, Tito José Bonagamba   #CCUS #Porousmedia #Sustainability #AI https://lnkd.in/gSwNT7jD