Engineering Imaging Laboratory

The Engineering Imaging Laboratory, managed by Dr. Schechter, recently purchased a state-of-the-art Universal HD350E x-ray CT scanner. The scanner can scan samples as large as 75 cm with a spatial resolution of .25 mm. It is being used by researchers throughout Texas A&M.

Controlled by Jeong Gyu Seo (PhD, South Korea)

 

The Universal HD200 x-ray CT scanner is a high-precision instrument that can measure the porosity, saturation, fluid density and differentiation in a core sample or physical model during a water or steam flood experiment. The scanner is a 4th generation model with a 50 cm maximum gentry diameter, a maximum scan speed of 2 sec, cross-sectional resolution of 0.27 mm x 0.27 mm. It has an automatic sample table with a travel precision of 0.1 mm.

The state-of-the-art, high-resolution, forth-generation X-ray CT scanner in this lab is used mainly for measurements of porosity and saturations in cores and enhanced oil recovery flood experiments. Petroleum Engineering and Chemical Engineering share the scanner and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment.
 

  Operating console room
 

  Front view of CT scanner
 

  Back view of CT scanner