Dataset for: Visualization and quantification of two-phase flow in transparent miniature packed beds: mobilization of crude oil.

Movie file showing the mobilization of crude in a miniature packed bed. Optical microscopy was used to visualize the flow of two phases [British Petroleum (BP) oil and an aqueous surfactant phase] in confined space, three-dimensional, transparent, natural porous media. The porous media consisted of water-wet cryolite grains packed inside cylindrical, glass microchannels, thus producing microscopic packed beds. The conditions in the film are: Continuous Phase: 0.001mol/L Tween80 aqueous solution; Frame rate: 24fps; Dispersed phase: Crude oil; Flow rate: 0.01ml/min.Data supporitng PHYSICAL REVIEW E 86, 046313 (2012) "Visualization and quantification of two-phase flow in transparent miniature packed beds" by Peixi Zhu and Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.046313.