System and method for generating formation cores with realistic geological composition and geometry
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B28B-017/00
E21B-041/00
B33Y-010/00
B33Y-050/00
B33Y-030/00
B28B-001/00
E21B-025/00
G01N-021/3563
G01N-023/046
G01N-023/20
G01N-023/2251
출원번호
US-0111748
(2014-02-18)
등록번호
US-10239229
(2019-03-26)
국제출원번호
PCT/US2014/016958
(2014-02-18)
국제공개번호
WO2015/126369
(2015-08-27)
발명자
/ 주소
Nguyen, Philip D.
Vo, Loan K.
Mock, Brian D.
Kralovetz, Aaron Christopher
출원인 / 주소
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
대리인 / 주소
Polsinelli PC
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초록▼
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for scanning a retrieved geological core sample to produce a digital file representing the core sample. Then the digital file is transmitted to a three-dimensional printer that can execute the digital file to make a geologically, chemically, an
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for scanning a retrieved geological core sample to produce a digital file representing the core sample. Then the digital file is transmitted to a three-dimensional printer that can execute the digital file to make a geologically, chemically, and structurally equivalent replica of the retrieved geological core sample. The three-dimensional printer can optionally combine a base geological material with one or more additives or with an inert binding agent layer by layer as three-dimensional pixels. The replica core sample can then be used for testing or for other purposes at a greatly reduced cost than retrieving multiple actual core samples. Further, the replica core sample can be reproduced at virtually any location rather than transporting an actual core sample.
대표청구항▼
1. A method comprising: scanning, by one or more sensors, a retrieved geological core sample to produce scan results describing chemical composition and structural composition of the retrieved geological core sample;generating, via a processor and based on the scan results, instructions describing b
1. A method comprising: scanning, by one or more sensors, a retrieved geological core sample to produce scan results describing chemical composition and structural composition of the retrieved geological core sample;generating, via a processor and based on the scan results, instructions describing base geological components, additive geological components, a combination of the base geological components and the additive geological components, and how to reproduce the chemical composition and the structural composition of the retrieved geological core sample in a replica core sample using the base geological components, additive geological components, and the combination of the base geological components and the additive geological components, the additive geological components comprising at least one of silicon, aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium oxide, carbonate, or clay minerals,the base geological components comprising plaster,the scan results comprising a collection of three-dimensional pixels, and wherein each three-dimensional pixel describes structural properties and mineral composition of a respective portion of the retrieved geological core sample, andthe collection of three-dimensional pixels collectively describing structural properties and mineral composition of the retrieved geological core sample;packaging the instructions to be in a file having a format compatible with a three-dimensional printer capable of executing the instructions to produce the replica core sample which has substantially similar chemical composition and structural composition as the retrieved geological core sample;transmitting the file to the three-dimensional printer;identifying, at a corresponding location of each of the three-dimensional pixels by the three-dimensional printer, one or more suitable base geological components and one or more suitable additive geological components from the base geological components and the additive geological components based on the instructions;mixing, for the corresponding location of each of the three dimensional pixels by the three-dimensional printer, the one or more suitable base geological components and the one or more suitable additive geological components to form the chemical composition of the retrieved geological core sample;ejecting, at the corresponding location of each of the three dimensional pixels by the three-dimensional printer, the suitable base geological components mixed with the suitable additive geological components through one or more inkjet-like heads of the three-dimensional printer; andreproducing, by the three-dimensional printer, a geologically similar replica core sample by depositing layer upon layer of the suitable base geological components mixed with the suitable additive geological components based on the instructions. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors includes at least one of x-ray diffraction, x-ray computed tomography, near infrared spectroscopy, a scanning electron microscope, or energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the scan results comprise a collection of non-cube shaped, three-dimensional regions, wherein each non-cube shaped, three-dimensional region describes structural properties and mineral composition of a respective portion of the retrieved geological core sample, and wherein the collection of non-cube shaped, three-dimensional regions collectively describes structural properties and mineral composition of the retrieved geological core sample.
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