水驱油过程的核磁共振二维谱研究

岩心水驱油过程中油水分布状况是岩心多孔介质的重要性质. 水驱油过程的研究是进一步进行提高采收率研究的基础. 核磁共振扩散-弛豫二维谱提供了岩心中流体性质的多方面信息,与核磁共振一维弛豫谱相比极大地提高了区分油水的能力. 该文通过2组岩心水驱油实验,从不同含油饱和度的扩散-弛豫二维谱中提取出水的一维弛豫谱,在原油粘度比较高的情况下获得了驱替过程中油水在不同孔隙中的分布状况以及润湿性等信息, 解决了单独用一维弛豫谱方法难以区分油水的问题. 该文的研究方法对油田提高采收率的研究有比较大的参考价值.     

二维核磁共振观测岩石润湿性

润湿性是反映储层中油水分布状况的一个重要表征参数,因此研究储层岩石的润湿性对原油开采有着重要的意义. 扩散弛豫二维谱可展示扩散系数与弛豫时间的相关性,并可以对油水的弛豫时间、扩散系数分别进行研究,与核磁共振一维弛豫谱相比极大地提高了区分油水的能力. 该文首先通过多组实验验证扩散-弛豫二维谱可以很好地观测到油水共存状态下玻璃珠表面的润湿性,继而通过对3组人造岩心表面润湿性的测量,获得了人造岩心表面润湿性的信息,解决了此时单独用一维弛豫谱方法难以区分油水的问题. 利用二维谱观察岩石润湿性的研究对油田提高采收率的研究有较大的参考价值.     

基于差分进化算法的核磁共振T2谱多指数反演

提出了一种基于差分进化(DE)算法的核磁共振弛豫信号多指数反演新方法. 将核磁共振T₂谱反演问题转化为带非负约束的非线性优化问题,不需要预先给定横向弛豫时间T_{2分布,直接利用差分进化算法进行反演计算. 在测量信号低信噪比的情况下,计算机模拟和实验数据反演都表明了该方法在分析处理NMR弛豫信号中的有效性. 关键词： 核磁共振 多指数反演 差分进化 岩心分析}     

反演与拟合相结合处理核磁共振弛豫数据的方法

讨论非负最小二乘（NNLS）法和非线性拟合在分析处理核磁共振（NMR）弛豫数据中的应用.同时将二者结合，提出用NNLS的反演结果来设定非线性拟合初值的方法，并用计算机模拟和实验证明了该方法在分析处理NMR弛豫数据中的有效性. 关键词： 非负最小二乘法 非线性拟合 核磁共振 弛豫时间     

页岩油气层核磁共振评价技术综述

对于常规储层,核磁共振是一项十分有效的解释-评价技术,它既能评价岩石物性与孔隙结构,又能评价孔隙流体分布与饱和度,且具有快速、无损、经济等特点;而对于页岩储层,其核磁共振受纳米级孔隙、复杂矿物成分、特殊孔隙结构、较高有机质含量、超低渗透性及内部梯度和受限扩散等因素的影响,面临探测分辨率低、解释模型不适用等瓶颈．为了发挥该项技术在页岩油气勘探开发中的作用,将国内外的页岩油气层核磁共振分析、评价技术与相关的页岩油气层实验室微观分析成果相结合,进行了系统梳理,从探测分辨率的提高、孔隙结构与岩石物性评价模型的建立、孔隙流体分布与识别模型的建立等方面进行了综述,提出需加强纳米孔的核磁共振弛豫机理和提高 D-T₂二维谱分辨率两个基础研究,在此基础上,进一步完善岩石物理及孔隙流体两个评价模型．
     

基于差分进化算法的核磁共振T2谱多指数反演

提出了一种基于差分进化(DE)算法的核磁共振弛豫信号多指数反演新方法.将核磁共振T2谱反演问题转化为带非负约束的非线性优化问题,不需要预先给定横向弛豫时间T2分布,直接利用差分进化算法进行反演计算.在测量信号低信噪比的情况下,计算机模拟和实验数据反演鄙表明了该方法在分析处理NMR弛豫信号中的有效性.     

多孔介质渗透率的NMR测定

介绍了利用NMR T₂ 弛豫数据求取岩心物性参数--渗透率的方法. 国外学者在分析了大量数据的基础上,建立了3种由T₂ 弛豫数据计算渗透率的模型,分别简称为SDR,Coates-cutoff和Coates-sbvi. 其中SDR模型不受束缚水计算方法的影响,但对岩心孔隙中流体的性质很灵敏,比较适合于水基泥浆地层. coates-cutoff和Coates-sbvi模型对束缚水的计算精度很敏感,可动和不可动流体孔隙体积的测定对渗透率的计算结果影响也很大. 此外,这三种模型对于低渗透率岩石的计算误差都较大. 通过对不同类型岩心的T₂ 弛豫特性和用常规方法测得的渗透率进行系统分析,在SDR模型的基础上所建立的渗透率测定方法（SDR-REV）有三个可调整参数,计算渗透率适用范围更大,计算的结果与常规实验值更接近. 把SDR-REV方法用于砂岩、砾岩、凝灰岩和火成岩四类岩心样品渗透率的测定,说明SDR-REV方法具有更普遍的适用性. 特别是对于中国普遍存在的低渗透岩心,测定结果更为准确.     

基于ADI-FDTD模拟的岩石核磁共振横向弛豫特征分析

将复杂的骨架-孔隙系统抽象成等效双孔介质,根据Bloch方程构建数学模型,用交替隐式时域有限差分(ADI-FDTD)和联合反演迭代法(SIRT)进行横向宏观磁化矢量的数值模拟与核磁共振T₂谱的反演,定量研究扩散系数、弛豫速率、孔隙组分比和孔隙宽度对核磁响应的影响.结果表明:横向宏观磁化矢量衰减速率与扩散系数和微孔隙分量成正比,与孔隙宽度成反比,与表面弛豫速率基本无关.当扩散系数较大、孔隙宽度较小时,核磁共振T₂谱难以直观反映孔隙组分及孔隙结构.应用核磁共振评价孔隙结构时需特别注意扩散系数和孔隙尺寸的影响.     

储油岩芯二相液体吸附特性的NMR研究及应用

为研究储油岩芯对液体的吸附机理,我们特地用同一岩芯制成以下几种样品:(1)吸附不同量的煤油;(2)吸附不同量的水;(3)先吸附一定量的水再吸附一定量的煤油.对以上三组样品,做了NMR自旋—晶格弛豫时间测定;考查了岩芯样品中各弛豫成分量与液体吸附量的变化规律;得出了岩芯内水和煤油受束缚越紧其弛豫时间越短的结论.并依据大量石油地质学的结论建立了砂岩孔隙中油水二相系统的核磁共振模型.     

多元可激发气体声弛豫频率的环境影响分析

推导多元可激发气体中声弛豫频率和环境温度、压强的解析关系.理论分析和仿真计算表明：声弛豫频率线性反比于主弛豫过程的弛豫时间,正比于主弛豫过程的振动耦合热容,反比于外自由度热容;温度升高导致振动耦合热容增加、内外自由度能量转移速率增大引起弛豫时间减少,进而造成声弛豫频率正比于环境温度;压强增加使得分子碰撞速率增加引起弛豫时间减少,进而使得声弛豫频率线性正比于环境压强.     

Diffusion-weighted spatial information from1H relaxation in restricted geometries

Summary NMR relaxation of water¹H confined in restricted geometries, whatever is the nature of the system (porous media saturated by water as well as biological tissues), exhibits common characteristics. Artificial microporous media saturated by water have been chosen as model systems to study the longitudinal and transverse relaxation of¹H magnetization of water molecules diffusing in restricted geometries. These systems are very stable, easy to prepare, with well-characterized pore size distribution and connections, and with highly homogeneous surface properties. The response was compared with that from more complex natural porous media. Scanning Electron Microscopy techniques demonstrated spatial characteristics and surface properties of the samples. The information content of longitudinal relaxation curves associated with spatial structure and due to restricted diffusion is shown in these samples. The effect on transverse relaxation of self-diffusion in the presence of spatially varying magnetic fields due to susceptibility differences is shown. A simple linear relationship has been found in all samples between the transverse relaxation rate and the interpulse delay in CPMG experiments, in spite of the variety of pore shapes and sizes. In general, one can say that relaxation curves beardiffusion-weighted information on the pore space framework. The role of the investigated relaxation mechanisms is important also in the response of biological tissues, including in the presence of MR Imaging contrast agents inducing microscopic magnetic-field gradients. Work partially supported by CNR and MURST Grants.     

Sodium NMR relaxation in porous materials

The NMR relaxation of hydrogen nuclei of a fluid in a porous material is generally interpreted in terms of the Brownstein-Tarr model, in which the relaxation rate of the signal is inversely proportional to the pore size. We have investigated whether this model can be applied to the relaxation of Na nuclei in a NaCl solution in a porous material. The results indicate that the ion distribution over the pores can be obtained from an analysis of the Na NMR signal decay, if the pore sizes are roughly below 1 microm. This information is very useful for studies of combined moisture and ion transport in porous building materials.     

Pore surface exploration by NMR

A carefully chosen set of experimental techniques applied to porous media characterization provides results that can be much greater than the sum of the individual parts. The inter-relation and complementarity of a number of techniques will be considered. NMR cryoporometry provides a valuable method of pore size measurement. An NMR method that is more widely used to assess pore dimensions relies on relaxation time analysis of a liquid that fills the pores and the enhanced relaxation that occurs in a liquid at the solid/liquid interface. Thermoporometry, a method based on the application of Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), is closely related to cryoporometry, but employs a different set of assumptions to evaluate pore size distributions. Comparison of the results obtained on the same samples using all these methods together with gas adsorption serves to validate the methods and provide significantly more information about surface-fluid interaction and the behavior of nano-scale material within pores than each method employed in isolation. Technique developments will be discussed and applications of these methods to ideal silicas will be used to illustrate their power, particularly in combination.     

Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance petrophysics

Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (2D NMR) opens a wide area for exploration in petrophysics and has significant impact to petroleum logging technology. When there are multiple fluids with different diffusion coefficients saturated in a porous medium, this information can be extracted and clearly delineated from CPMG measurements of such a system either using regular pulsing sequences or modified two window sequences. The 2D NMR plot with independent variables of T2 relaxation time and diffusion coefficient allows clear separation of oil and water signals in the rocks. This 2D concept can be extended to general studies of fluid-saturated porous media involving other combinations of two or more independent variables, such as chemical shift and T1/T2 relaxation time (reflecting pore size), proton population and diffusion contrast, etc.     

The Influence of the Magnetic Impurity Content on the Pore Size Distribution Determination via the DDIF Technique

The pore size distribution of porous media can be determined in a completely non-invasive manner using a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique which monitors the magnetization decay due to diffusion in internal fields (DDIF). However, using of the DDIF technique is restricted to the low-phase encoding limit when only the relaxation mode and the first-order diffusion mode are excited. In the present work the fulfillment of such a limit is verified for a progressive increase of the magnetic impurity content of the porous media. If the higher order diffusion modes are excited they lead both to a stronger attenuation of the echo signal and to the appearance of ripples in the DDIF spectra which cannot be related to a pore size distribution. The samples used in this study are porous ceramics prepared using the replication technique and the magnetic impurity is iron (III) oxide which is introduced in an increasing concentration inside the porous matrix. All NMR experiments were done on water filling such porous ceramics using a low-field instrument operating at a proton resonance frequency of 20 MHz. The average pore dimension obtained with the DDIF technique in the weak encoding limit indicates a satisfactory agreement with that observed in optical microscopy images.     

An NMR protocol for determining ice crystal size distributions during freezing and pore size distributions during freeze-drying

Nuclear magnetic resonance water proton relaxometry is widely used to investigate pore size distributions and pore connectivity in brine-saturated porous rocks and construction materials. In this paper we show that, by replacing water with acetone, a similar method can be used to probe the porous structure of freeze-dried starch gels and therefore the ice crystal size distribution in frozen starch gels. The method relies on the observation that the starch surface acts as a powerful relaxation sink for acetone proton transverse magnetization so that Brownstein-Tarr theory can be used to extract the pore size distribution from the relaxation data. In addition the relaxation time distribution is found to depend on the spectrometer frequency and the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill pulse spacing, consistent with the existence of large susceptibility-induced field gradients within the pores. The potential of this approach for noninvasively measuring ice crystal size distributions during freezing and pore size distributions during freeze-drying in other food systems is discussed.     

核磁共振二维谱反演

核磁共振二维谱包含扩散系数 D 和横向弛豫时间 T₂ 的信息,利用核磁共振仪来测量多孔介质中物质的信息,根据其弛豫时间和扩散系数的差别来区分不同物质;利用全局反演方法,提出了核磁共振二维谱反演的物理模型和数学模型;介绍了传统的奇异值分解（SVD）和改进的奇异值分解反演算法;采用改进的奇异值分解法对核磁共振二维谱进行反演,其反演算法具有计算速度快和二维谱分布连续等优点. 它适合于信噪比较高的数据反演,当原始数据信噪比SNR≥100时,可以对二维谱图进行定量分析;当60≤SNR<100时,可以对二维谱图进行定性分析. 核磁共振二维谱可以一次性直接区分油和水,为核磁共振测井提供了新的科学技术.     

Novel NMR techniques for porous media research

Diffusion in porous media has been used as a probe of pore geometry in various NMR techniques. We will examine the effect of time-dependent diffusion in CPMG by showing that the diffusion time in CPMG is approximately the echo time, even in grossly inhomogeneous magnetic fields. Extension of the diffusion time in modified CPMG sequences is discussed. Diffusion in the susceptibility-contrast induced internal field is discussed as a means to probe pore size and pore shape. Finally, we present the general concept of two-dimensional relaxation-type experiments for study of molecules, fluids, materials and their dynamics that are characterized by spin relaxation and diffusion.     

An NMR-Based Analysis of Soil–Water Characteristics

Both direct and indirect methods for determining soil–water characteristic curves rely on determination of some empirical coefficients, which may not necessarily represent real microscopic mechanisms. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful tool for investigating water content and their interaction with solid particles in porous media. The NMR technique is widely used in food science and petroleum. In the present study, proton NMR spin–spin relaxation time (T ₂) distribution measurement is integrated with a Tempe apparatus to characterize the hydraulic processes of unsaturated soils, shedding insights into the microscopic mechanisms of pore water distribution and migration in the soil during hydraulic cycles. It is revealed that during a drying process the drainage of pore water occurs sequentially from larger pores to smaller pores, whereas in a wetting process the water invades into the soil sequentially from smaller pores to larger pores. A new procedure is developed which can be used to determine the pore size distribution of the soil based on the NMR T ₂ distribution measurements; compared to the traditional methods, the new method is rapid and non-destructive. The new procedure is validated by comparing the new result with the measurement of the mercury intrusion porosimetry.