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Prediction and Evaluation of Time-Dependent Effective Self-diffusivity of Water and Other Effective Transport Properties Associated with Reconstructed Porous Solids

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TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
卷 110, 期 1, 页码 81-111

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-015-0557-y

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X-ray computed microtomography; Stochastic reconstruction; Random-walk simulation; Pulsed field gradient NMR; Viscous flow; Isobaric counter-current diffusion; Knudsen flow

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  1. Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic [P204/11/1206]

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We reconstructed pore structures of three porous solids that differ from each other in morphology and topology of pore space. To achieve this, we used a stochastic method based on simulated annealing and X-ray computed microtomography. Simulated annealing was constrained by the following microstructural descriptors sampled along the principal and diagonal directions: the two-point probability function for the void phase and the lineal-path functions for both void and solid phases. The stochastic method also assumed the isotropic pore structures in accordance with a recent paper (apek et al. in Transp Porous Media 88(1): 87-106 (2011)). With the exception of the solid with the widest pores, we made tomographic volume images in high and low resolution, which enabled us to study the effect of resolution on microstructural descriptors and effective transport properties. A comparison of the two-point probability function and the lineal-path function sampled in the principal directions revealed that the pore structures derived from the tomographic volume images were slightly anisotropic, in opposition to the assumption of the stochastic method. Besides the anisotropy, other microstructural descriptors including the pore-size function and the total fraction of percolating cells indicated that the morphological and topological characteristics of the pore structures depended on the reconstruction method and its parameters. Particularly, the pore structures reproduced using the stochastic method contained wider pores than those obtained using X-ray tomography. Deviations between the pore structures derived from low- and high-resolution tomographic volume images were also observed and imputed to partial volume artefacts. Then, viscous flow of incompressible liquid, ordinary diffusion, Knudsen flow and self-diffusion of water in the reconstructed pore spaces were simulated. As counterparts, experimental data were measured by means of permeation and Wicke-Kallenbach cells and pulsed field gradient NMR. Deviations between the simulated quantities on the one hand and experimental data on the other hand were generally acceptable, which corroborated the pore-space models. As expected, the predictions based on the tomographic models of pore space were more successful than those derived from the stochastic models. The stationary effective transport properties, i.e. the effective permeability, the effective pore size and the geometric factor, were sensitive to a bias in long-range pore connectivity. Furthermore, the time-dependent effective diffusivity was found to be especially sensitive to relatively small morphological deviations between the real and reconstructed pore structures. It is concluded that the combined predictions of the effective permeability, the effective pore size, the geometric factor and time-dependent effective self-diffusivity of water are needed for the reliable evaluation of pore-space reconstruction.

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