scholarly journals Approximating the vanishing capillarity limit of two-phase flow in multi-dimensional heterogeneous porous medium

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 655-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Andreianov ◽  
K. Brenner ◽  
C. Cancès
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Heterogeneous Porous Medium ◽  
Two Phase

Estimation of the fluid-fluid interfacial area using kinetic interface sensitive tracers in dynamic porous media experiments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru Tatomir ◽  
Huhao Gao ◽  
Hiwa Abdullah ◽  
Martin Sauter
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Organic Liquid ◽  
Column Experiment ◽  
Interfacial Area ◽  
Breakthrough Curves ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase

<p>Fluid-fluid interfacial area (IFA) in a two-phase flow in porous media is an important parameter for many geoscientific applications involving mass- and energy-transfer processes between the fluid-phases. Schaffer et al. (2013) introduced a new category of reactive tracers termed kinetically interface sensitive (KIS) tracers, able to quantify the size of the fluid-fluid IFA. In our previous experiments (Tatomir et al., 2018) we have demonstrated the application of the KIS tracers in a highly-controlled column experiment filled with a well-characterized porous medium consisting of well-sorted, spherical glass beads.</p><p>In this work we investigate several types of glass-bead materials and natural sands to quantitatively characterize the influence of the porous-medium grain-, pore-size and texture on the mobile interfacial area between an organic liquid and water. The fluid-fluid interfacial area is determined by interpretation of the breakthrough curves (BTCs) of the reaction product of the KIS tracer. When the tracer which is dissolved in the non-wetting phase meets the water, an irreversible hydrolysis process begins leading to the formation of two water-soluble products. For the experiments we use a peristaltic pump and a high precision injection pump to control the injection rate of the organic liquid and tracer.</p><p>A Darcy-scale numerical model is used to simulate the immiscible displacement process coupled with the reactive tracer transport across the fluid-fluid interface. The results show that the current reactive transport model is not always capable to reproduce the breakthrough curves of tracer experiments and that a new theoretical framework may be required.</p><p>Investigations of the role of solid surface area of the grains show that the grain surface roughness has an important influence on the IFA. . Furthermore, a linear relationship between the mobile capillary associated IFA and the inverse mean grain diameter can be established. The results are compared with the data collected from literature measured with high resolution microtomography and partitioning tracer methods. The capillary associated IFA values are consistently smaller because KIS tracers measure the mobile part of the interface. Through this study the applicability range of the KIS tracers is considerably expanded and the confidence in the robustness of the method is improved.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Schaffer M, Maier F, Licha T, Sauter M (2013) A new generation of tracers for the characterization of interfacial areas during supercritical carbon dioxide injections into deep saline aquifers: Kinetic interface-sensitive tracers (KIS tracer). International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14:200–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.01.020</p><p>Tatomir A, Vriendt KD, Zhou D, et al (2018) Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers: Experimental Validation in a Two-Phase Flow Column Experiment. A Proof of Concept. Water Resources Research 54:10,223-10,241. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022621</p>

scholarly journals Two-phase flow in a chemically active porous medium

2014 ◽  
Vol 141 (24) ◽  
pp. 244704
Author(s):  
Alexandre Darmon ◽  
Michael Benzaquen ◽  
Thomas Salez ◽  
Olivier Dauchot
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase

scholarly journals Studying of parameters of two-phase displacement in porous media with MRI technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 524
Author(s):  
Jamal Fannir ◽  
Irina Panfilova ◽  
Sébastien Leclerc ◽  
Didier Stemmelen
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Immiscible Fluid ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Imaging Device ◽  
Oil Saturation

This study describes experimental research on two-phase flow displacement using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques. The overall purpose of this investigation is to determine kinetics process of phase trapping during (water-oil) two-phase flow, the front deformation and the phases saturation propagation along a vertical model. In these water flooding experiments, the porous medium model consists of packed beads of polystyrene (0.4 mm < dp < 0.6 mm) or sand grains (0.02 mm < dp < 0.50 mm). In order to conduct high accuracy experiments, a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer operating at 14 T (corresponding to a 600 MHz 1H resonance) equipped with an imaging device was used. With this equipment we can measure and visualize the two-phase flow in a vertical model of porous medium under ambient conditions. The obtained results have shown that the oil saturation profile is strongly influenced by the material properties such as the phase wetting, the sample porosity and permeability as well as the injection rate. The influence of flow velocity on the residual oil saturation was also studied. The experimental results allow an essential understanding of immiscible fluid displacement in two different types of porous medium that differ from each other mainly by the effects of wettability.

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