Review of: "An integrated pore size distribution measurement method of small angle neutron scattering and mercury intrusion capillary pressure"

Qiang Zeng

doi:10.32388/hafbec

Abstract

Review of: "An integrated pore size distribution measurement method of small angle neutron scattering and mercury intrusion capillary pressure"

Highlights

mercury intrusion capillary pressure testing (MICP) tests can provide broad pore size distribution data, but the samples have to be dried prior to tests, so the microstructure of the samples may be altered due to the building of high capillary pressures on the pore walls in thin pore system during the drying process. This says that the obtained pore size distribution may be different from the original materials
Because in MICP, it assumes that the pores are cylinders, while in small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), the pores are assumed to comform to a polydisperse spherical pore network
Futher consistent pore models should be developed based on experimental data to demonstrate the ‘real’ pore system

Summary

Introduction

Review of: "An integrated pore size distribution measurement method of small angle neutron scattering and mercury intrusion capillary pressure" Potential competing interests: The author(s) declared that no potential competing interests exist. The authors combined the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and mercury intrusion capillary pressure testing (MICP) methods to present integrative investingations on the pore size distribution of the broad sense shale oil reservoir samples of the Permian Lucaogou Formation in the Jimsar Sag, Junggar Basin, China.

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