Modifications to the Kozeny–Carman model to enhance petrophysical relationships
Amir Maher Sayed LalaGeophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11233, Egypt. Email: amir78_lala@yahoo.com
Exploration Geophysics 49(4) 553-558 https://doi.org/10.1071/EG17015
Submitted: 20 January 2017 Accepted: 2 August 2017 Published: 21 September 2017
Abstract
The most commonly used relationship that relates permeability, porosity, grain size and tortuosity is the Kozeny–Carman equation. When it is used to estimate the permeability behaviour versus porosity, the other two parameters (the grain size and tortuosity) are usually kept constant. In this study, we investigate the deficiency of the Kozeny–Carman assumption and the alternative derived equations for the Kozeny–Carman equation is presented, including equations where the grain size is replaced with the pore size with varying tortuosity. We also introduce relationships for the permeability of shaly sand reservoir that answer the approximately linear permeability decreases in the log-linear permeability–porosity relationships in datasets from different locations.
Key words: grain size, permeability, porosity, tortuosity.
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