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Martin J. Blunt

Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

14

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Scholarly Papers (14)

1.

Micro-Ct Imaging of Drainage and Spontaneous Imbibition for Underground Hydrogen Storage in Saline Aquifers

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Feb 2025
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Underground hydrogen storage, Gas displacement, Spontaneous imbibition, Pore-scale, X-ray microtomography

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Determining Gas Re-Mobilization and Critical Saturation: From Field Scale CO2 Injection Experiments to Pore-Scale Modelling

Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16) 23-24 Oct 2022
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Nov 2022
Uppsala University - Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University - Department of Earth Sciences, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering – EWRE Ltd., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University - Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Uppsala University - Department of Earth Sciences
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Geological CO2 Storage, Residual Trapping, Critical Saturation, Relative Permeability, Pore Scale

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Putting CO2 in Its Place! A Unique Research Partnership Investigating the Fundamental Principles of Subsurface Carbon Dioxide Behaviour and Carbonate Reservoirs

14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference Melbourne 21-26 October 2018 (GHGT-14)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 Apr 2019
Imperial College London - Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Centre, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London - Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Centre and Imperial College London - Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Centre
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Other, GHGT-14

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Integration of Unresolved Porosity and Enhanced Connectivity in the Generalized Network Model: Validation Using Pore-Scale Drainage in Heterogeneous Carbonates

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, TotalEnergies SE, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Imperial College London
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pore-scale modeling, multiscale pore network model, bimodal carbonates, digital rock physics, two-phase flow, capillary pressure

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Image-Based Pore-Scale Modelling of the Effect of Wettability on Breakthrough Capillary Pressure in Gas Diffusion Layers

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 May 2023
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Dalian University of Technology, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Gas diffusion layers, pore network model, breakthrough capillary pressure, mixed wettability, pore occupancy

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Trapping and Remobilization During Geological Co2 Storage: A Pore-Scale Imaging and Modelling Study

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 May 2025
Uppsala University, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Uppsala University - Department of Earth Sciences
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geological CO2 storage, Pore-scale, Residual trapping, Gas remobilization, X-ray microtomography, Pore-network modelling

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Impact of Pore-Scale Heterogeneity on Continuum-Scale Multiphase Flow Properties: Insights from Indiana Limestone Carbonate

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Oct 2025
Imperial College London, Ghent University, Stanford University, Imperial College London, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Imperial College London, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Imperial College London
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CO2 StorageHeterogeneityPore-scaleflow rate dependencyCarbonate

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X-Ray Imaging with Measurements of CO2 And Brine Relative Permeability, Curvature and Capillary Pressure in a Bentheimer Sandstone: Evidence for Low Gas Relative Permeability at Reservoir Conditions

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2026
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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geological CO2 storage, pore-scale imaging, CO2 relative permeability, pore occupancy, connectivity, capillary pressure

Discovery of Nanopore Filling by Gypsum in Wellbore Cement Exposed to 17 Mpa Co2 Under Geologic Carbon Storage Conditions

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jan 2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Henan University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Geologic CO2 storage, Cement carbonation, Gypsum precipitation, micro-CT, Field emission SEM

Discovery of Nanopore Filling by Gypsum in Wellbore Cement Exposed to 17 Mpa Co2 Under Geologic Carbon Storage Conditions

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Aug 2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Los Alamos National Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Geologic CO2 storage, Cement carbonation, Gypsum precipitation, Micro-CT, Field emission SEM

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Systematic Multiscale Characterization and Statistical Analysis of Mudrock Microstructures by Scanning SAXS and WAXS Microscopy

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Apr 2026
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Heriot-Watt University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), ETH Zürich - Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Montanuniversität Leoben, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Scanning SAXS-WAXS Microscopy, Mudrocks, Eagle Ford, Multiscale microstructure, Heterogeneity, Pore-Scale modeling, Petrophysical characterization

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Why Gravity Improves Waterflood Recovery in Oil-Wet and Mixed-Wet Reservoirs

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jul 2024
Imperial College London, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Gravity Segregation, Waterflooding, Enhanced Recovery, Local Displacement, Buckley Leverett Solution, Numerical simulation

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Cyclic Hydrogen Pressurization Enlarges Brine-Saturated Cracks in Rock Salt: Implications for Salt-Cavern Hydrogen Storage Integrity

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jun 2026
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Natural Resources Canada, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Hydrogen storage, Salt caverns, Brine-driven dissolution-reprecipitation, Hydrogen exsolution, Crack dilatation

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Learning Pore-scale Multiphase Flow from 4D Velocimetry

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 May 2026
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Ghent University, Stanford University, Stanford University, Imperial College London, Yale University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Ghent University and Imperial College London
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multiphase flow, porous media, Machine learning, Graph Neural Network, pore-scale modelling, 4D micro-velocimetry

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Relative Permeability, Wettability, Pore Occupancy and Connectivity of Hydrogen, and Carbon Dioxide in Carbonate Rocks: A Comparative Study

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jul 2026
Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Imperial College London and Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering
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Hydrogen Storage, Carbon Dioxide Storage, Pore-Scale X-Ray Imaging, Relative Permeability, Wettability, Ostwald Ripening