The Determination of Electrokinetic Coupling-Coefficient and Zeta Potential of Rock Samples by Electrokinetic Measurements

2012 ◽  
Vol 516-517 ◽  
pp. 1870-1873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Heng Shan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Coupling Coefficient ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
Surface Conductivity ◽  
Reliable Estimate ◽  
Surface Conductance ◽  
Streaming Current ◽  
Low Concentrations

The electrokinetic effects are important in the understanding of electric properties in porous medium. In this study, the streaming potential and streaming current of saturated samples are measured at different concentrations, then three methods are applied to obtain the zeta-potential and electrokinetic coupling coefficient. The study shows that the results obtained from streaming potential and streaming current methods agree well with each other, but the results obtained from simplified streaming potential method become seriously inaccurate at low concentrations due to the influence of surface conductance. This experimental study also provides a reliable estimate of the surface conductivity and its contribution to zeta-potential at given concentrations.

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.

Apparatus for determination of zeta potentials from streaming potentials

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1263-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Beck ◽  
V. Mirkovitch ◽  
P. G. Andrus ◽  
R. I. Leininger
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Salt Solutions ◽  
Streaming Potentials ◽  
Zeta Potentials ◽  
Quartz Capillary ◽  
Flow Through

A system was developed to measure the streaming potential generated between the ends of a capillary by the flow of a fluid through the capillary. Zeta potential can be calculated from the streaming potential. Adequate sensitivity and reproducibility were achieved by making special electrodes: silver wires plated in KCl solution and embedded in agar, careful electrical shielding, and provision for reversal of flow through the capillary to minimize electrode errors. The apparatus was developed to measure streaming potentials generated by either RingerS's solution or blood in contact with capillaries made of different materials such as quartz, polyethylene, etc. An example of a determination using a quartz capillary is presented. interfaces; blood; salt solutions; glass; quartz Submitted on February 25, 1963

scholarly journals Forward Modeling and validation of a new formulation to compute self-potential signals associated with ground water flow

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1661-1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bolève ◽  
A. Revil ◽  
F. Janod ◽  
J. L. Mattiuzzo ◽  
A. Jardani
Keyword(s):  
Ground Water ◽  
Current Density ◽  
Coupling Coefficient ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Water Phase ◽  
Flow In Porous Media ◽  
Seepage Velocity ◽  
Streaming Current ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Self Potential

Abstract. The classical formulation of the coupled hydroelectrical flow in porous media is based on a linear formulation of two coupled constitutive equations for the electrical current density and the seepage velocity of the water phase and obeying Onsager's reciprocity. This formulation shows that the streaming current density is controlled by the gradient of the fluid pressure of the water phase and a streaming current coupling coefficient that depends on the so-called zeta potential. Recently a new formulation has been introduced in which the streaming current density is directly connected to the seepage velocity of the water phase and to the excess of electrical charge per unit pore volume in the porous material. The advantages of this formulation are numerous. First this new formulation is more intuitive not only in terms of establishing a constitutive equation for the generalized Ohm's law but also in specifying boundary conditions for the influence of the flow field upon the streaming potential. With the new formulation, the streaming potential coupling coefficient shows a decrease of its magnitude with permeability in agreement with published results. The new formulation has been extended in the inertial laminar flow regime and to unsaturated conditions with applications to the vadose zone. This formulation is suitable to model self-potential signals in the field. We investigate infiltration of water from an agricultural ditch, vertical infiltration of water into a sinkhole, and preferential horizontal flow of ground water in a paleochannel. For the three cases reported in the present study, a good match is obtained between finite element simulations performed and field observations. Thus, this formulation could be useful for the inverse mapping of the geometry of groundwater flow from self-potential field measurements.

The zeta potential of extended dielectrics and conductors in terms of streaming potential and streaming current measurements

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 9758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo M. Gallardo-Moreno ◽  
Virginia Vadillo-Rodríguez ◽  
Julia Perera-Núñez ◽  
José M. Bruque ◽  
M. Luisa González-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Streaming Current

Measurement of the Streaming Potential and Streaming Current near a Rotating Disk to Determine Its Zeta Potential

Langmuir ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 7433-7438 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Hoggard ◽  
Paul J. Sides ◽  
Dennis C. Prieve
Keyword(s):  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Rotating Disk ◽  
Streaming Current

scholarly journals Examination of a Theoretical Model of Streaming Potential Coupling Coefficient

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. Luong ◽  
R. Sprik
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Zeta Potential ◽  
Coupling Coefficient ◽  
Electrolyte Concentration ◽  
Streaming Potential ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Potential Measurement ◽  
Streaming Potentials

Seismoelectric effects and streaming potentials play an important role in geophysical applications. The key parameter for those phenomena is the streaming potential coupling coefficient, which is, for example, dependent on the zeta potential of the interface of the porous rocks. Comparison of an existing theoretical model to experimental data sets from available published data for streaming potentials has been performed. However, the existing experimental data sets are based on samples with dissimilar fluid conductivity, pH of pore fluid, temperature, and sample compositions. All those dissimilarities may cause the observed deviations. To critically assess the models, we have carried out streaming potential measurement as a function of electrolyte concentration and temperature for a set of well-defined consolidated samples. The results show that the existing theoretical model is not in good agreement with the experimental observations when varying the electrolyte concentration, especially at low electrolyte concentration. However, if we use a modified model in which the zeta potential is considered to be constant over the electrolyte concentration, the model fits the experimental data well in a whole range of concentration. Also, for temperature dependence, the comparison shows that the theoretical model is not fully adequate to describe the experimental data but does describe correctly the increasing trend of the coupling coefficient as function of temperature.

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