Dear InterPore colleagues,

InterPore2023 in Scotland… thirst thing I think about when thinking about Scotland is their famous drink. I suppose we should experience some of it while being there. Carefully, of course, as the scientific content of that week will be the main course. A taste of that can be found in the InJournals section.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Abstract submission for online presentations and in-person posters will remain open until 01 May 2023! Submit your abstract here.

Energy Transition Panelists

Following a plenary lecture by Onno van Kessel (General Manager, CCS Development & Subsurface at Shell) entitled Energy transition and porous media; an industrial megaproject perspective on Thursday, 25 May, a panel of experts will engage in a discussion with the participants regarding the current urgent research needs in various energy transition technologies and methodologies.

Panel members:

• Onno van Kessel, Shell
• Michelle Bentham, British Geological Survey
• Martin Blunt, Imperial College
• Alan James, Storegga
• Juliet Newson, Reykjavik University
• Lynn Orr, Stanford University

For more information, please visit our website.

Exhibitors and Sponsors

We are very pleased to again welcome Canon CPP and Tescan as silver sponsors! In addition, Tescan will be joining us as an exhibitor in Edinburgh. We are very thankful for their continued support of InterPore events!

Minisymposia

Social events

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The InterPore2023 LOC has organized a tour of the Holyrood Distillery on Sunday, 21 May. We’ll learn about the distillation process and get to sample the results at this scotch whisky distillery in the heart of Edinburgh. Tickets for the event will be available for purchase with your conference registration and are also included as part of the “accompanying guest” package. More information can be found on our website.

Did you know….Edinburgh?

InterPore2023 will be in Edinburgh. Edinburgh has a lot of things to offer with respect to science, science history and porous media. This week: The Scotch Whisky Experience.

In the heart of Edinburgh’s old town, at the top of the Royal Mile and in the shadow of Edinburgh’s castle, the Scotch Whisky Experience’s tours offer the possibilities for experts and novices alike to discover the joy of one of the most prominent Scottish industries. Take a sensational journey through a replica distillery, explore Scotland’s diverse whisky regions and the flavours that the countryside imparts to its whiskies, experience for yourself the varying aromas and whether you like fruity, sweet, or smoky flavours, before your expert guide imparts the secrets of the Whisky regions and helps you choose your perfect ‘dram’ to taste in one of the largest whisky collections in the world.

Da Silva joins Industry Committee

Thomas Ramstad, principal researcher and project manager in reservoir technology at Equinor ASA, has stepped down as Co-Chair of the InterPore Industry Committee, of which he has been a member since its formation in 2019 and has co-chaired with Mark Knackstedt since March 2021.

We are very fortunate that Thomas was able to appoint a replacement, Dr. William Da Silva. William is employed with the Equinor office in Brazil. He has a strong background from both academia and industry, working on various topics. Equinor Brazil has a formal commitment to support local academia and research, and both William and Thomas believe that InterPore can serve as one of several common platforms for researchers from industry and academia. We thank Thomas very much for his valuable support of InterPore and look forward to the continued work ahead.

Share your knowledge on WikiPore

With the porous-media-knowledge platform called WikiPore, anybody who has an account with InterPore can submit an article or a brief introduction about software related to porous media. All you need to do is to log into “My InterPore” and then click either “Submit Wikipore Article” or “Submit Wikipore Software”.

Australian Chapter Webinar

As part of the webinar series organized by the Australia InterPore Chapter, Dr. Qinhong Hu from the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, will give an online presentation entitled Nano-Petrophysical Studies for Energy and Resources Geosciences (PDF 200 KB).

When: 12-1 pm AEDT, 30 January 2023
Where: MS Teams (link)

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2023

The Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer is Professor Adrian Bejan from Duke University, USA. His lecture, entitled Vascular materials: Predicting Design Evolution, will focus on one of his major contributions: evolutionary design illustrated in the case of multiscale vasculature, a methodology that can be used generally to predict the evolution toward flow access, miniaturization, high density of heat transfer, and the scaling up (or down) of an existing design. (full bio and abstract)

How to host Adrian Bejan at your institute

Please visit our website for further information on how to apply.

Prodanović webinar: Q&A transcript now available

Want to learn more about flow and transport coefficients in porous media? The extended Q&A from Maša Prodanović’s recent webinar Flow and transport coefficients in porous media: from direct simulation to automated prediction is now available here. Visit our website to watch the full recording and stay tuned for updates on our next event!

Special Issue: Mixing in Porous Media

Marco Dentz, Daniel R. Lester, Michel F.M. Speentjes

Mixing in porous media is a multi-scale phenomenon with spatial scales ranging from micrometers (pores and capillaries) to kilometers (aquifers and reservoirs) and temporal scales that range from seconds to years. It is interdisciplinary with applications that range from speleogenesis to nutrient transport in biological tissue. The special issue is motivated by the 2020 Lorentz conference Mixing in Porous Media. It contains 2 review papers and 20 research papers that cover different aspects of mixing in porous and fractured media, at the pore and continuum scale, in single fractures and fracture networks.

Transport in Porous Media volume 146, (2023)
Corresponding author: Marco Dentz

Stochastic Microstructure Delineation and Flow Simulation in Asymmetric Block Copolymer Ultrafiltration Membranes

M. Sadegh Riasi, Lieihn Tsaur, Yuk Mun Li, Qi Zhang, Ulrich Wiesner, Lilit Yeghiazarian

Asymmetric block copolymer ultrafiltration membranes have a wide range of applications from water purification and virus filtration all the way to drug delivery. Although optimizing flow is critical to the performance of such membranes, their numerical flow characterization has remained challenging. The main problems include hierarchical pore structure delineation and lack of an efficient, image-based pore-scale modeling approach. In this study, we use 2D SEM images with a variety of resolutions to delineate the hierarchical asymmetric pore structure and a novel stochastic pore network model to simulate flow. Our results show good agreement between simulated and measured permeabilities.

Journal of Membrane Science, 668, 2116 (2023)
Corresponding Author: Lilit Yeghiazarian

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