scholarly journals A Monte Carlo Model of Gas-Liquid-Hydrate Three-phase Coexistence Constrained by Pore Geometry in Marine Sediments

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangzhi Chen ◽  
Alan W. Rempel ◽  
Shenghua Mei
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Finite Thickness ◽  
Gas Bubbles ◽  
Spherical Particles ◽  
Stability Field ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Sediment Grain Size ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Hydrate Stability

Gas hydrates form at relatively high pressures in near-surface, organic-rich marine sediments, with the base of the hydrate stability field and the onset of partial gas saturation determined by temperature increases with depth. Because of pore-scale curvature and wetting effects, the transition between gas hydrate and free gas occurrence need not take place at a distinct depth or temperature boundary, but instead can be characterized by a zone of finite thickness in which methane gas bubbles and hydrate crystals coexist with the same aqueous solution. Previous treatments have idealized pores as spheres or cylinders, but real pores between sediment grains have irregular, largely convex walls that enable the highly curved surfaces of gas bubbles and/or hydrate crystals within a given pore to change with varying conditions. In partially hydrate-saturated sediments, for example, the gas–liquid surface energy perturbs the onset of gas–liquid equilibrium by an amount proportional to bubble-surface curvature, causing a commensurate change to the equilibrium methane solubility in the liquid phase. This solubility is also constrained by the curvature of coexisting hydrate crystals and hence the volume occupied by the hydrate phase. As a result, the thickness of the three-phase zone depends not only on the pore space geometry, but also on the saturation levels of the hydrate and gaseous phases. We evaluate local geometrical constraints in a synthetic 3D packing of spherical particles resembling real granular sediments, relate the changes in the relative proportions of the phases to the three-phase equilibrium conditions, and demonstrate how the boundaries of the three-phase zone at the base of the hydrate stability field are displaced as a function of pore size, while varying with saturation level. The predicted thickness of the three-phase zone varies from tens to hundreds of meters, is inversely dependent on host sediment grain size, and increases dramatically when pores near complete saturation with hydrate and gas, requiring that interfacial curvatures become large.

Shock-Induced Multiphase Instability in a High Volume Fraction Finite-Thickness Particle Layer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertrand Rollin ◽  
Frederick Ouellet ◽  
Bradford Durant ◽  
Rahul Babu Koneru ◽  
S. Balachandar
Keyword(s):  
Shock Tube ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Particle Volume Fraction ◽  
Finite Thickness ◽  
Spherical Particles ◽  
Shock Strength ◽  
Particle Volume ◽  
Particle Cloud ◽  
Particle Layer

Abstract We study the interaction of a planar air shock with a perturbed, monodispersed, particle curtain using point-particle simulations. In this Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, equations of motion are solved to track the position, momentum, and energy of the computational particles while the carrier fluid flow is computed in the Eulerian frame of reference. In contrast with many Shock-Driven Multiphase Instability (SDMI) studies, we investigate a configuration with an initially high particle volume fraction, which produces a strongly two-way coupled flow in the early moments following the shock-solid phase interaction. In the present study, the curtain is about 4 mm in thickness and has a peak volume fraction of about 26%. It is composed of spherical particles of d = 115μm in diameter and a density of 2500 kg.m−3, thus replicating glass particles commonly used in multiphase shock tube experiments or multiphase explosive experiments. We characterize both the evolution of the perturbed particle curtain and the gas initially trapped inside the particle curtain in our planar three-dimensional numerical shock tube. Control parameters such as the shock strength, the particle curtain perturbation wavelength and particle volume fraction peak-to-trough amplitude are varied to quantify their influence on the evolution of the particle cloud and the initially trapped gas. We also analyze the vortical motion in the flow field. Our results indicate that the shock strength is the primary contributor to the cloud particle width. Also, a classic Richtmyer-Meshkov instability mixes the gas initially trapped in the particle curtain and the surrounding gas. Finally, we observe that the particle cloud contribute to the formation of longitudinal vortices in the downstream flow.

scholarly journals Highly Contaminated Marine Sediments Can Host Rare Bacterial Taxa Potentially Useful for Bioremediation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Dell’Anno ◽  
Eugenio Rastelli ◽  
Michael Tangherlini ◽  
Cinzia Corinaldesi ◽  
Clementina Sansone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
High Throughput Sequencing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Aliphatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Chemical Contamination ◽  
Bacterial Strains ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressures ◽  
Sediment Grain Size ◽  
Gulf Of Naples ◽  
Mixed Contaminants

Coastal areas impacted by high anthropogenic pressures typically display sediment contamination by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals (HMs). Microbial-based bioremediation represents a promising strategy for sediment reclamation, yet it frequently fails due to poor knowledge of the diversity and dynamics of the autochthonous microbial assemblages and to the inhibition of the target microbes in the contaminated matrix. In the present study, we used an integrated approach including a detailed environmental characterization, high-throughput sequencing and culturing to identify autochthonous bacteria with bioremediation potential in the sediments of Bagnoli-Coroglio (Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea), a coastal area highly contaminated by PAHs, aliphatic hydrocarbons and HMs. The analysis of the benthic prokaryotic diversity showed that the distribution of the dominant taxon (Gammaproteobacteria) was mainly influenced by PAHs, As, and Cd concentrations. The other abundant taxa (including Alphaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, NB1-j, Desulfobacterota, and Myxococcota) were mainly driven by sediment grain size and by Cu and Cr concentrations, while the rare taxa (i.e., each contributing <1%) by As and aliphatic hydrocarbons concentrations and by sediment redox potential. These results suggest a differential response of bacterial taxa to environmental features and chemical contamination and those different bacterial groups may be inhibited or promoted by different contaminants. This hypothesis was confirmed by culturing and isolating 80 bacterial strains using media highly enriched in PAHs, only nine of which were contextually resistant to high HM concentrations. Such resistant isolates represented novel Gammaproteobacteria strains affiliated to Vibrio, Pseudoalteromonas, and Agarivorans, which were only scarcely represented in their original assemblages. These findings suggest that rare but culturable bacterial strains resistant/tolerant to high levels of mixed contaminants can be promising candidates useful for the reclamation by bioaugmentation strategies of marine sediments that are highly contaminated with PAHs and HMs.

Near-Surface Velocimetry Using Evanescent Wave Illumination

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songwan Jin ◽  
Peter Huang ◽  
Jinil Park ◽  
Jung Yul Yoo ◽  
Kenneth S. Breuer
Keyword(s):  
Slip Velocity ◽  
Finite Thickness ◽  
Fluorescent Microscopy ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Microfluidic System ◽  
Wall Region ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Shear Rates ◽  
Seed Particles ◽  
Apparent Slip

Total internal reflection fluorescent microscopy (TIRFM) is used to measure particle motion in the near wall region of a microfluidic system. TIRFM images have minimum background noise and contain only particles that are very close to channel surface, where slip velocities may be present. Submicron sized fluorescent particles suspended in water are used as seed particles and images are analyzed with a PTV algorithm to extract information about apparent slip velocity. At relatively low shear rates (less than 2500 sec−1), an apparent slip velocity, proportional to the shear rate was observed. However, numerical simulations show that this observation is a direct consequence of the small, but finite thickness of the illuminated region, and most likely not due to physical slip at the surface. The statistical difference in apparent slip velocities measured over hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces is found to be minimal. Issues associated with the experimental technique and the interpretation of the experimental results are also discussed.

The Poynting Vector and the New Theory of a Transformer. Part 11. Three-Phase Three-Core Transformers without a Neutral Wire

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Mansur A. SHAKIROV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Equivalent Circuit ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Poynting Vector ◽  
Magnetic Circuit ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Field Patterns ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mathematical Relations

A topological equivalent circuit for a three-phase three-core transformer reflecting the spatial structure of its magnetic system is developed. Owing to this approach, it became possible to represent the magnetic fluxes of the magnetic circuit’s all main sections and the apertures for each of three phases directly in the circuit in the absence of the windings’ neutral wires. The circuit is constructed by stitching together the anatomical circuit models of single-phase transformers obtained in the previous parts with taking into account the relationships between the fluxes at the junctions of the phase zones in iron. Its validity is confirmed by the rigor nature of the physical and mathematical relations for idealized transformers with infinite magnetic permeability of iron and simplified magnetic field patterns, which corresponds to the generally accepted approach with neglecting the magnetization currents. The difference lies in the fact that the developed model takes into account the heterogeneity of magnetization in different parts of the magnetic circuit with allocating more than 30 sections in the iron and apertures. The transition to the model of a real three-core transformer is carried out by adding four nonlinear transverse magnetization branches in each extreme phase zone and eight branches in the central phase zone to the idealized equivalent circuit. It is shown that in cases of winding connections without neutral wires, there is no flux of the Poynting vector in interphase zones in any unbalanced mode. In this case, the problems connected with the occurrence of fluxes exceeding the no-load fluxes under the conditions of symmetric and asymmetric short circuits, as well as the occurrence of buckling fluxes in these modes in the region outside the transformer iron, are solved.

Inversion of aeromagnetic data using digital terrain models

Geophysics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek J. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Joint Inversion ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Vertical Direction ◽  
Inverse Function ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Stability Field ◽  
Topographic Effects ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Digital Terrain ◽  
White Island

Although draped magnetic surveys contain more information about the magnetization of the rocks near the surface of the earth than surveys at constant elevation, allowance for the effects of the terrain is critical for their correct interpretation. A new method for calculating the magnetic effect of the topography from a digital terrain model by integrating analytically in the vertical direction and then numerically in the horizontal plane is presented. This method lends itself to the calculation of anomalies when the magnetization of the rocks varies with position and thus is well suited to the inversion of draped aeromagnetic surveys to obtain the apparent magnetization of the surficial rocks. This inversion is achieved by repeated use of an approximate inverse function in the form of a two‐dimensional (2-D) filter that is applied to gridded data. An example, using draped magnetic data collected over White Island, an active volcanic island of high relief, shows that although the anomaly pattern is dominated by topographic effects, the distribution of near‐surface magnetic bodies can be determined by a joint inversion of the data and the topography. One of the highly magnetized areas of White Island is interestingly in the vicinity of the active crater, with another near the inner wall of the caldera where there are numerous fumaroles. It may be expected that the higher temperatures in these areas would reduce the magnetization. However, it appears that an explanation for the higher magnetization can be found in the stability field of the mineral magnetite.

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