Journal
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
Volume 137, Issue 3, Pages 651-666Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-021-01581-7
Keywords
Electrokinetics; Geomaterials; Permeability; Electro-osmosis; Streaming potentials
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- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003525]
- Sandia Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, through the Earth Science Research Foundation
- Academic Alliance
- University of Illinois
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Pore-scale finite-volume continuum models are used to predict electrokinetic properties of different shapes arrays, with calculations suggesting that particle aspect ratio and orientation can affect the electrical and hydraulic tortuosity of porous media. The models also predict permeability and show potential for applications such as decontamination and desalination.
Pore-scale finite-volume continuum models of electrokinetic processes are used to predict the Debye lengths, velocity, and potential profiles for two-dimensional arrays of circles, ellipses and squares with different orientations. The pore-scale continuum model solves the coupled Navier-Stokes, Poisson, and Nernst-Planck equations to characterize the electro-osmotic pressure and streaming potentials developed on the application of an external voltage and pressure difference, respectively. This model is used to predict the macroscale permeabilities of geomaterials via the widely used Carmen-Kozeny equation and through the electrokinetic coupling coefficients. The permeability results for a two-dimensional X-ray tomography-derived sand microstructure are within the same order of magnitude as the experimentally calculated values. The effect of the particle aspect ratio and orientation on the electrokinetic coupling coefficients and subsequently the electrical and hydraulic tortuosity of the porous media has been determined. These calculations suggest a highly tortuous geomaterial can be efficient for applications like decontamination and desalination.
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