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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 29, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5004246
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- Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) by the Nigerian Government through the Presidential Special Nigeria Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRES-SID)
- Qatar Petroleum
- Shell
- Qatar Science and Technology Park
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Most evaporation experiments using artificial porous media have focused on single capillaries or sand packs. We have carried out, for the first time, evaporation studies on a 2.5D micromodel based on a thin section of a sucrosic dolomite rock. This allowed direct visual observation of pore-scale processes in a network of pores. NaCl solutions from 0 wt.%(de-ionized water) to 36 wt.%(saturated brine) were evaporated by passing dry air through a channel in front of the micromodel matrix. For de-ionized water, we observed the three classical periods of evaporation: the constant rate period (CRP) in which liquid remains connected to the matrix surface, the falling rate period, and the receding front period, in which the capillary connection is broken and water transport becomes dominated by vapour diffusion. However, when brine was dried in the micromodel, we observed that the length of the CRP decreased with increasing brine concentration and became almost non-existent for the saturated brine. In the experiments with brine, the mass lost by evaporation became linear with the square root of time after the short CRP. However, this is unlikely to be due to capillary disconnection from the surface of the matrix, as salt crystals continued to be deposited in the channel above the matrix. We propose that this is due to salt deposition at the matrix surface progressively impeding hydraulic connectivity to the evaporating surface. Published by AIP Publishing.
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