scholarly journals Predicting Electrokinetic Coupling and Electrical Conductivity in Fractured Media Using a Fractal Distribution of Tortuous Capillary Fractures

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 5121
Author(s):  
Luong Duy Thanh ◽  
Damien Jougnot ◽  
Phan Van Do ◽  
Dang Thi Minh Hue ◽  
Tran Thi Chung Thuy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Fractured Media ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Fractal Distribution ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surface Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Water Saturated ◽  
Fractal Size

Electrokinetics methods have attracted increasing interest to characterize hydrogeological processes in geological media, especially in complex hydrosystems such as fractured formations. In this work, we conceptualize fractured media as a bunch of parallel capillary fractures following the fractal size distribution. This conceptualization permits to obtain analytical models for both the electrical conductivity and the electrokinetic coupling in water saturated fractured media. We explore two different approaches to express the electrokinetic coupling. First, we express the streaming potential coupling coefficient as a function of the zeta potential and then we obtain the effective charge density in terms of macroscopic hydraulic and electrokinetic parameters of porous media. We show that when the surface electrical conductivity is negligible, the proposed models reduces to the previously proposed one based on a bundle of cylindrical capillaries. This model opens up a wide range of applications to monitor the water flow in fractured media.

scholarly journals Predicting Electrokinetic Coupling and Electrical Conductivity in Fractured Media Using a Bundle of Tortuous Capillary Fractures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luong Duy Thanh ◽  
Damien Jougnot ◽  
Phan Van Do ◽  
Dang Thi Minh Hue ◽  
Tran Thi Chung Thuy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Fractured Media ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surface Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Water Saturated ◽  
Fractal Size

The electrokinetics methods have a great potential to characterize hydrogeological processes in geological media, especially in complex hydrosystems such as fractured formations. In this work, we conceptualize fractured media as a bunch of parallel capillary fractures following the fractal size distribution. This conceptualization permits to obtain analytical models for both the electrical conductivity and the electrokinetic coupling in water saturated fractured media. We explore two different approaches to express the electrokinetic coupling. First, we express the streaming potential coupling coefficient as a function of the zeta potential and then we obtain the effective charge density in terms of macroscopic hydraulic and electrokinetic parameters of porous media. We show that when the surface electrical conductivity is negligible, the proposed models reduces to the previously proposed one based on a bundle of cylindrical capillaries. This model opens up a wide range of applications to monitor the water flow in fractured media.

scholarly journals Universal mobility characteristics of graphene originating from charge scattering by ionised impurities

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan H. Gosling ◽  
Oleg Makarovsky ◽  
Feiran Wang ◽  
Nathan D. Cottam ◽  
Mark T. Greenaway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Carrier Density ◽  
Carrier Mobility ◽  
Carrier Transport ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Pristine Graphene ◽  
High Electron ◽  
Boltzmann Transport ◽  
Transport Parameters ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractPristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures can exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Mobility directly influences electrical conductivity and its dependence on the carrier density. But linking these key transport parameters remains a challenging task for both theorists and experimentalists. Here, we report numerical and analytical models of carrier transport in graphene, which reveal a universal connection between graphene’s carrier mobility and the variation of its electrical conductivity with carrier density. Our model of graphene conductivity is based on a convolution of carrier density and its uncertainty, which is verified by numerical solution of the Boltzmann transport equation including the effects of charged impurity scattering and optical phonons on the carrier mobility. This model reproduces, explains, and unifies experimental mobility and conductivity data from a wide range of samples and provides a way to predict a priori all key transport parameters of graphene devices. Our results open a route for controlling the transport properties of graphene by doping and for engineering the properties of 2D materials and heterostructures.

scholarly journals A physically based model for the electrical conductivity of water-saturated porous media

2019 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 866-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luong Duy Thanh ◽  
Damien Jougnot ◽  
Phan Van Do ◽  
Nguyen Van Nghia A
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Saturated Porous Media ◽  
Formation Factor ◽  
Physically Based Model ◽  
Microstructural Parameters ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
Pore Liquid ◽  
Water Saturated

SUMMARY Electrical conductivity is one of the most commonly used geophysical method for reservoir and environmental studies. Its main interest lies in its sensitivity to key properties of storage and transport in porous media. Its quantitative use therefore depends on the efficiency of the petrophysical relationship to link them. In this work, we develop a new physically based model for estimating electrical conductivity of saturated porous media. The model is derived assuming that the porous media is represented by a bundle of tortuous capillary tubes with a fractal pore-size distribution. The model is expressed in terms of the porosity, electrical conductivity of the pore liquid and the microstructural parameters of porous media. It takes into account the interface properties between minerals and pore water by introducing a surface conductivity. Expressions for the formation factor and hydraulic tortuosity are also obtained from the model derivation. The model is then successfully compared with published data and performs better than previous models. The proposed approach also permits to relate the electrical conductivity to other transport properties such as the hydraulic conductivity.

How to use alum with cationic dispersed rosin size

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEBO XU ◽  
JEREMY MYERS ◽  
PETER HART
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Excessive Amount ◽  
Paper Machine ◽  
Optimum Amount ◽  
Potential Measurement ◽  
Streaming Current ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Laboratory Results

Retention of cationic dispersed rosin size was studied via turbidity measurements on stock filtrate with different alum and dispersed rosin size dosages. Stock charge characteristics were analyzed using both an analysis of charge demand determined via a streaming current detector and an evaluation of zeta potential of the fibers by streaming potential measurement. The results indicated that an optimum amount of alum existed such that good sizing retention was maintained throughout a wide range of dispersed rosin size dosages. However, when an excessive amount of alum was used and fines and colloidal particles were transitioned from anionic to cationic, the cationic size retention was reduced. Laboratory results were confirmed with a paper machine trial. All data suggested that a stock charge study was necessary to identify optimal alum dosage for a cationic dispersed rosin sizing program.

scholarly journals Multi-material braids for multifunctional laminates: conductive through-thickness reinforcement

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline O’Keeffe ◽  
Laura Rhian Pickard ◽  
Juan Cao ◽  
Giuliano Allegri ◽  
Ivana K. Partridge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Carbon Fibre ◽  
Electromagnetic Interference ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Electrically Conductive ◽  
Current Collection ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Predictive Design ◽  
The Right ◽  
Metal Wires

AbstractConventional carbon fibre laminates are known to be moderately electrically conductive in-plane, but have a poor through-thickness conductivity. This poses a problem for functionality aspects that are of increasing importance to industry, such as sensing, current collection, inductive/resistive heating, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, etc. This restriction is of course more pronounced for non-conductive composite reinforcements such as glass, organic or natural fibres. Among various solutions to boost through-thickness electrical conductivity, tufting with hybrid micro-braided metal-carbon fibre yarns is one of the most promising. As a well-characterised method of through thickness reinforcement, tufting is easily implementable in a manufacturing environment. The hybridisation of materials in the braid promotes the resilience and integrity of yarns, while integrating metal wires opens up a wide range of multifunctional applications. Many configurations can be produced by varying braid patterns and the constituting yarns/wires. A predictive design tool is therefore necessary to select the right material configuration for the desired functional and structural performance. This paper suggests a fast and robust method for generating finite-element models of the braids, validates the prediction of micro-architecture and electrical conductivity, and demonstrates successful manufacturing of composites enhanced with braided tufts.

scholarly journals Development of Permeability Models for Saturated Fluid Flow across Arrays of Fibre Clusters

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 096369350201100
Author(s):  
E.M. Gravel ◽  
T.D. Papathanasiou
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Models ◽  
Dual Porosity ◽  
Hydraulic Permeability ◽  
Fibrous Media ◽  
Fibre Bundles ◽  
Hexagonal Packing ◽  
Composites Manufacturing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Flow Through

Dual porosity fibrous media are important in a number of applications, ranging from bioreactor design and transport in living systems to composites manufacturing. In the present study we are concerned with the development of predictive models for the hydraulic permeability ( Kp) of various arrays of fibre bundles. For this we carry out extensive computations for viscous flow through arrays of fibre bundles using the Boundary Element Method (BEM) implemented on a multi-processor computer. Up to 350 individual filaments, arranged in square or hexagonal packing within bundles, which are also arranged in square of hexagonal packing, are included in each simulation. These are simple but not trivial models for fibrous preforms used in composites manufacturing – dual porosity systems characterised by different inter- and intra-tow porosities. The way these porosities affect the hydraulic permeability of such media is currently unknown and is elucidated through our simulations. Following numerical solution of the governing equations, ( Kp) is calculated from the computed flowrate through Darcy's law and is expressed as function of the inter- and intra-tow porosities (φ, φt) and of the filament radius ( Rf). Numerical results are also compared to analytical models. The latter form the starting point in the development of a dimensionless correlation for the permeability of such dual porosity media. It is found that the numerically computed permeabilities follow that correlation for a wide range of φ i, φt and Rf.

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