Experimental and numerical analysis of parallel reactant flow and transverse mixing with mineral precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media

Fox, Don T.; Guo, Luanjing; Fujita, Yoshiko; Huang, Hai; Redden, George

doi:10.1007/s11242-015-0614-6

Title: Experimental and numerical analysis of parallel reactant flow and transverse mixing with mineral precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media

Journal Article · Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Transport in Porous Media

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0614-6· OSTI ID:1252729

Fox, Don T. ^[1]; Guo, Luanjing ^[2]; Fujita, Yoshiko ^[1]; Huang, Hai ^[1]; Redden, George ^[3]

Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT (United States)

Formation of mineral precipitates in the mixing interface between two reactant solutions flowing in parallel in porous media is governed by reactant mixing by diffusion and dispersion and is coupled to changes in porosity/permeability due to precipitation. The spatial and temporal distribution of mixing-dependent precipitation of barium sulfate in porous media was investigated with side-by-side injection of barium chloride and sodium sulfate solutions in thin rectangular flow cells packed with quartz sand. The results for homogeneous sand beds were compared to beds with higher or lower permeability inclusions positioned in the path of the mixing zone. In the homogeneous and high permeability inclusion experiments, BaSO₄ precipitate (barite) formed in a narrow deposit along the length and in the center of the solution–solution mixing zone even though dispersion was enhanced within, and downstream of, the high permeability inclusion. In the low permeability inclusion experiment, the deflected BaSO₄ precipitation zone broadened around one side and downstream of the inclusion and was observed to migrate laterally toward the sulfate solution. A continuum-scale fully coupled reactive transport model that simultaneously solves the nonlinear governing equations for fluid flow, transport of reactants and geochemical reactions was used to simulate the experiments and provide insight into mechanisms underlying the experimental observations. Lastly, migration of the precipitation zone in the low permeability inclusion experiment could be explained by the coupling effects among fluid flow, reactant transport and localized mineral precipitation reaction.

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Research Organization:: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC07-05ID14517

OSTI ID:: 1252729

Report Number(s):: INL/JOU-13-29594; PII: 614

Journal Information:: Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 111, Issue 3; ISSN 0169-3913

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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