Works and services

1. Research filtration characteristics of reservoir rocks:

• Determine open and closed porosity
• Study the geometric characteristics of the pore space
• Visualize structure changes of the pore space after interacting with reagents, extracting, mechanical effects, and etc.

Channels formed by acid treatment of carbonates

• Determine tensor of the absolute permeability coefficient, curves of capillary pressure, and curves of relative permeabilities from digital images of porous media
• Distribution of pores by volume
• Specific surface of pores
• Granulometric composition (for sandstones)

Distribution of different size pores by volume of rock

• Determine flow and absolute liquid permeability by means of Willie Geotechnics System for Filtration Experiments
• Determine dynamic adsorption of polymer, catalysts, and other reagents to enhance oil recovery.

2. Visualization of the filtration experiments in the X-ray tomograph cabinet:

• Reservoirs saturation
• Filtration under different pressures Reagents impact on the rock matrix and filtration processes
• Displacement of some fluids by others

Visualization of water filtration process through the sample under 100 kPa

3. Paleontological researches of remains and archeological artifacts by non-destructive method:

• Determine shape and size of the objects
• Study the internal structure and mutual arrangement of parts

Shell form and inner structure of Nautilus

4. Defectoscopy of industrial products:

• Determine shape and size of the objects
• Study the internal structure and mutual arrangement of parts
• Search for defects and inclusions

Diagnostic of the pocket watch mechanism

Peculiarities of X-Ray tomographic imaging:

- Max. sample size: width  (diameter) – 230 mm, height – 420 mm.

- Max. sample weight: 10 kg

- Space resolution (volume pixel): 3÷150 μm³

- Space resolution depends on the sample size and amounts approximately 1/1000 of the maximum scan area size.

- Scan time is 16÷240 minutes

Types of analysis results for customers:

- Apparatus modes of taken measurements.

- Space resolution of imaging.

- Video file of consequent virtual sections in three mutually perpendicular planes with resolution of 1000×1000 pxl.

- Statistic data of spread of X-ray contrast phases  (size, quantity within the given size interval and etc.)

- Three-dimensional reconstruction of phase spread.

Forms of store and transfer of analysis results:

- Normal sized file with scan data: 3÷16GB

- Maximum sized file with scan data: 60 GB

- Virtual sections may be saved in one of the following formats: DICOM, TIFF, BMP, JPEG or ASCII with resolution of 1000*1000 pxl

- Video files may be saved in the following formats: avi, .mpg

- Data may be saved on a previously formatted external hard disk (NTFS).