Diffusion of Heavy Oil in SiO2 Model Catalyst and FCC Catalyst

2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi Yuan Liu ◽  
Sheng Li Chen ◽  
Peng Dong ◽  
Xiu Jun Ge
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Pore Size ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Pore Diameter ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
Model Catalyst ◽  
Average Pore ◽  
Diffusion Factor ◽  
Fcc Catalyst ◽  
Fcc Catalysts

Through the measured effective diffusion coefficients of Dagang vacuum residue supercritical fluid extraction and fractionation (SFEF) fractions in FCC catalysts and SiO2model catalysts, the relation between pore size of catalyst and effective diffusion coefficient was researched and the restricted diffusion factor was calculated. The restricted diffusion factor in FCC catalysts is less than 1 and it is 1~2 times larger in catalyst with polystyrene (PS) template than in conventional FCC catalyst without template, indicating that the diffusion of SFEF fractions in the two FCC catalysts is restricted by the pore. When the average molecular diameter is less than 1.8 nm, the diffusion of SFEF fractions in SiO2model catalyst which average pore diameter larger than 5.6 nm is unrestricted. The diffusion is restricted in the catalyst pores of less than 8 nm for SFEF fractions which diameter more than 1.8 nm. The tortuosity factor of SiO2model catalyst is obtained to be 2.87, within the range of empirical value. The effective diffusion coefficient of the SFEF fractions in SiO2model catalyst is two orders of magnitude larger than that in FCC catalyst with the same average pore diameter. This indicate that besides the ratio of molecular diameter to the pore diameter λ, the effective diffusion coefficient is also closely related to the pore structure of catalyst. Because SiO2model catalyst has uniform pore size, the diffusion coefficient can be precisely correlated with pore size of catalyst, so it is a good model material for catalyst internal diffusion investigation.

scholarly journals Impact of Pore Geometry and Water Saturation on Gas Effective Diffusion Coefficient in Soil

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulong Hu ◽  
Yao Jiang ◽  
Daoyi Chen ◽  
Yongshui Lin ◽  
Qiang Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Diffusion Coefficients ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Pore Diameter ◽  
Water Saturation ◽  
Knudsen Diffusion ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
Pore Geometry ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficients

Gas flow in soil plays a crucial role in terrestrial ecosystems, and numerical simulation of their movement needs to know their effective diffusion coefficients. How pore structure influences the effective diffusion coefficient has been studied intensively for dry porous media, but much remains unknown for unsaturated soils. Here, we employed the X-ray tomography technique at the pore scale to directly obtain the soil structures, the geometry of their pores and the water distribution under different water saturation levels were calculated using a morphological model. The results show that pore structures including porosity, interface area of gas–solid–water and pore diameter are closely related to water saturation. The increase of mean pore diameter with gas saturation can be fitted into a power law. We also investigated the impact of pore geometry and water saturation on the effective diffusion coefficients, which is independent of the molecular mass of gas after normalization. As the normalized effective Knudsen diffusion coefficient increases with average pore diameter following a power law, with the scaling factor related to pore geometry and the exponent is a constant, we explained and proved that the Knudsen diffusion coefficient increases with gas saturation, also following a power law.

scholarly journals Calculating structural and geometrical parameters by laboratory experiments and X-Ray microtomography: a comparative study applied to a limestone sample

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 3293-3337
Author(s):  
L. Luquot ◽  
V. Hebert ◽  
O. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Pore Size ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Rock Sample ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Rock Heterogeneity ◽  
Limestone Sample ◽  
Limestone Rock

Abstract. The aim of this study is to compare the structural, geometrical and transport parameters of a limestone rock sample determined by X-ray microtomography (XMT) images and laboratory experiments. Total and effective porosity, surface-to-volume ratio, pore size distribution, permeability, tortuosity and effective diffusion coefficient have been estimated. Sensitivity analyses of the segmentation parameters have been performed. The limestone rock sample studied here have been characterized using both approaches before and after a reactive percolation experiment. Strong dissolution process occured during the percolation, promoting a wormhole formation. This strong heterogeneity formed after the percolation step allows to apply our methodology to two different samples and enhance the use of experimental techniques or XMT images depending on the rock heterogeneity. We established that for most of the parameters calculated here, the values obtained by computing XMT images are in agreement with the classical laboratory measurements. We demonstrated that the computational porosity is more informative than the laboratory one. We observed that pore size distributions obtained by XMT images and laboratory experiments are slightly different but complementary. Regarding the effective diffusion coefficient, we concluded that both approaches are valuable and give similar results. Nevertheless, we wrapped up that computing XMT images to determine transport, geometrical and petrophysical parameters provides similar results than the one measured at the laboratory but with much shorter durations.

scholarly journals Calculating structural and geometrical parameters by laboratory measurements and X-ray microtomography: a comparative study applied to a limestone sample before and after a dissolution experiment

Solid Earth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Luquot ◽  
Vanessa Hebert ◽  
Olivier Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Pore Size ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Rock Sample ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
Laboratory Measurements ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Limestone Rock

Abstract. The aim of this study is to compare the structural, geometrical and transport parameters of a limestone rock sample determined by X-ray microtomography (XMT) images and laboratory experiments. Total and effective porosity, pore-size distribution, tortuosity, and effective diffusion coefficient have been estimated. Sensitivity analyses of the segmentation parameters have been performed. The limestone rock sample studied here has been characterized using both approaches before and after a reactive percolation experiment. Strong dissolution process occurred during the percolation, promoting a wormhole formation. This strong heterogeneity formed after the percolation step allows us to apply our methodology to two different samples and enhance the use of experimental techniques or XMT images depending on the rock heterogeneity. We established that for most of the parameters calculated here, the values obtained by computing XMT images are in agreement with the classical laboratory measurements. We demonstrated that the computational porosity is more informative than the laboratory measurement. We observed that pore-size distributions obtained by XMT images and laboratory experiments are slightly different but complementary. Regarding the effective diffusion coefficient, we concluded that both approaches are valuable and give similar results. Nevertheless, we concluded that computing XMT images to determine transport, geometrical, and petrophysical parameters provide similar results to those measured at the laboratory but with much shorter durations.

scholarly journals Restricted diffusion of model sulfides over a NiMo/BK catalyst under hydrodesulfurization reaction conditions

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (70) ◽  
pp. 44340-44347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huadong Wu ◽  
Aijun Duan ◽  
Zhen Zhao ◽  
Chunming Xu ◽  
Guiyuan Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
Molecular Size ◽  
Restricted Diffusion ◽  
Reaction Conditions ◽  
Effective Factors

The effective factors (η) of a NiMo/BK catalyst are greater than that of the traditional NiMo/Al2O3; the effective diffusion coefficient (De) decreases with the increasing molecular size of the model sulfides.

scholarly journals Characterization of Effective Diffusion within Viscoelastic Fluids with Elastic Instabilities

Fluids ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Valerie Hietsch ◽  
Phil Ligrani ◽  
Mengying Su
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Couette Flow ◽  
Effective Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Effective Diffusion ◽  
Flow Shear ◽  
Shear Rates ◽  
Flow Environment ◽  
Disk Rotation ◽  
Elastic Instabilities ◽  
Fluorescein Dye

We considered effective diffusion, characterized by magnitudes of effective diffusion coefficients, in order to quantify mass transport due to the onset and development of elastic instabilities. Effective diffusion coefficient magnitudes were determined using different analytic approaches, as they were applied to tracked visualizations of fluorescein dye front variations, as circumferential advection was imposed upon a flow environment produced using a rotating Couette flow arrangement. Effective diffusion coefficient results were provided for a range of flow shear rates, which were produced using different Couette flow rotation speeds and two different flow environment fluid depths. To visualize the flow behavior within the rotating Couette flow environment, minute amounts of fluorescein dye were injected into the center of the flow container using a syringe pump. This dye was then redistributed within the flow by radial diffusion only when no disk rotation was used, and by radial diffusion and by circumferential advection when disk rotation was present. Associated effective diffusion coefficient values, for the latter arrangement, were compared to coefficients values with no disk rotation, which were due to molecular diffusion alone, in order to quantify enhancements due to elastic instabilities. Experiments were conducted using viscoelastic fluids, which were based on a 65% sucrose solution, with different polymer concentrations ranging from 0 ppm to 300 ppm. Associated Reynolds numbers based on the fluid depth and radially averaged maximum flow velocity ranged from 0.00 to 0.5. The resulting effective diffusion coefficient values for different flow shear rates and polymer concentrations quantified the onset of elastic instabilities, as well as significant and dramatic changes to local mass transport magnitudes, which are associated with the further development of elastic instabilities.

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