Transport of citrate and polymer coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in porous media: Effect of surface property and Darcy velocity

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Chunyu Wen ◽  
Mette M. Broholm ◽  
Jun Dong ◽  
Basil Uthuppu ◽  
Mogens Havsteen Jakobsen ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (14) ◽  
pp. 6102-6109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanapon Phenrat ◽  
Fritjof Fagerlund ◽  
Tissa Illangasekare ◽  
Gregory V. Lowry ◽  
Robert D. Tilton

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Avendaño ◽  
Nicolle Lima ◽  
Antonio Quevedo ◽  
Marcio Carvalho

Wettability has a dramatic impact on fluid displacement in porous media. The pore level physics of one liquid being displaced by another is a strong function of the wetting characteristics of the channel walls. However, the quantification of the effect is still not clear. Conflicting data have shown that in some oil displacement experiments in rocks, the volume of trapped oil falls as the porous media becomes less water-wet, while in some microfluidic experiments the volume of residual oil is higher in oil-wet media. The reasons for this discrepancy are not fully understood. In this study, we analyzed oil displacement by water injection in two microfluidic porous media with different wettability characteristics that had capillaries with constrictions. The resulting oil ganglia size distribution at the end of water injection was quantified by image processing. The results show that in the oil-wet porous media, the displacement front was more uniform and the final volume of remaining oil was smaller, with a much smaller number of large oil ganglia and a larger number of small oil ganglia, when compared to the water-wet media.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Kyu Ha Park ◽  
Sangjin Oh ◽  
Jeonghyo Kim ◽  
Seung Yun Yang ◽  
Beum-Soo An ◽  
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