The Delft Laboratory of Geoscience and Engineering aims to quantify, qualify, and visualize the interactions between rocks, fluids and gases under simulated in-situ (changing) conditions, through time, in an environmentally responsible manner. Processes involving the physio-chemical and mechanical behavior of soft rock and soils are studied, with applications in oil-water replacement, acoustic stimulation of oil production, groundwater flow, induced heat flow, slope stability, tunneling, integrity of dikes and embankments, and more.
Our facilities can be grouped into 3 different themes:
Rock mechanics, petrophysics and geophysics facilities
- Purpose: determination of mechanical and petrophysical properties of rocks for hydraulic fracturing, induced improvement of flow, strength-effects.
- Key equipment: shock tube, true triaxial cell, large borehole simulator, Terratek cell and other (bi-axial) pressure devices, ultrasonic transducers, acoustic emission monitoring setup.
Visualization facilities
- Purpose: Texture qualification and quantification, petrography/mineralogy and petrophysics of rock samples, and imaging of in-situ processes.
- Key techniques: Macro/micro CT-scans, optical microscopy
Transport & flow facilities
- Purpose: Studies of rock/fluid/gas systems including (multi-phase) flow characterization, rock/fluid interaction, sorption and diffusion determination.
- Key equipment: High P,T-flow tubes, core flood setups
Please read more about the laboratory here: https://www.tudelft.nl/citg/over-faculteit/afdelingen/geoscience-engineering/laboratory/
