Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Flow Reduction in Pore Networks of Packed Silica Nanoparticles: Insights from Mesoscopic Fluid Models

Journal Article · · Langmuir
A modified many-body dissipative particle dynamics (mDPD) model is rigorously calibrated to achieve realistic fluid–fluid/solid interphase properties and applied for mesoscale flow simulations to elucidate the transport mechanisms of heptane liquid and water, respectively, through pore networks formed by packed silica nanoparticles with a uniform diameter of 30 nm. Two million CPU core hours were used to complete the simulation studies. Results show reduction of permeability by 54–64% in heptane flow and by 88–91% in water flow, respectively, compared to the Kozeny–Carman equation. In these nanopores, a large portion of the fluids are in the near-wall regions and thus not mobile due to the confinement effect, resulting in reduced hydraulic conductivity. Moreover, intense oscillations in the calculated flow velocities also indicate the confinement effect that contests the external driven force to flow. Here, the generic form of Darcy’s law is considered valid for flow through homogeneous nanopore networks, while permeability depends collectively on pore size and surface wettability. This fluid-permeability dependency is unique to flow in nanopores. In addition, potential dependence of permeability on pore connectivity is observed when the porosity remains the same in different core specimens.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517; SC0019285
OSTI ID:
1883362
Journal Information:
Langmuir, Journal Name: Langmuir Journal Issue: 26 Vol. 38; ISSN 0743-7463
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (96)

Freezing and Melting of Water Confined in Silica Nanopores journal November 2008
Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics journal March 1995
Dissipative Particle Dynamics: Foundation, Evolution, Implementation, and Applications book January 2017
Micro powder injection molding: process characterization and modeling journal March 2006
Review: static and dynamic behavior of liquids inside carbon nanotubes journal April 2008
Water transport through (7,7) carbon nanotubes of different lengths using molecular dynamics journal August 2011
Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD): An Overview and Recent Developments journal July 2014
Boundary conditions in dissipative particle dynamics journal September 1999
Effects of a chemically heterogeneous island on the dynamic contact angles of droplets journal August 2019
Discrete element modeling of switchgrass particles under compression and rotational shear journal October 2020
Many-body dissipative particle dynamics study of droplet impact on superhydrophobic spheres with different size journal June 2021
Accelerating dissipative particle dynamics simulations on GPUs: Algorithms, numerics and applications journal November 2014
GPU-accelerated red blood cells simulations with transport dissipative particle dynamics journal August 2017
A GPU-accelerated package for simulation of flow in nanoporous source rocks with many-body dissipative particle dynamics journal February 2020
Nanofiltration membranes review: Recent advances and future prospects journal January 2015
Wetting transition of water on graphite and boron-nitride surfaces: A molecular dynamics study journal March 2011
Molecular dynamics simulations of oil transport through inorganic nanopores in shale journal May 2016
Fast mass transport of oil and supercritical carbon dioxide through organic nanopores in shale journal October 2016
A review on capillary condensation in nanoporous media: Implications for hydrocarbon recovery from tight reservoirs journal November 2016
Lattice Boltzmann simulation of liquid flow in nanoporous media journal October 2018
Pressure-driven water flow through carbon nanotubes: Insights from molecular dynamics simulation journal February 2010
Review of pore network modelling of porous media: Experimental characterisations, network constructions and applications to reactive transport journal September 2016
Modelling multi-viscosity systems with dissipative particle dynamics journal May 2006
Dissipative particle dynamics simulation of fluid motion through an unsaturated fracture and fracture junction journal March 2007
Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows journal February 2016
A dissipative particle dynamics method for arbitrarily complex geometries journal February 2018
A non-equilibrium molecular dynamics study of methane transport in clay nano-pores journal September 2017
Bidirectional water transport through non-straight carbon nanotubes journal February 2019
Molecular simulations of oil adsorption and transport behavior in inorganic shale journal May 2020
Effects of additives on oil displacement in nanocapillaries: A mesoscale simulation study journal August 2020
Flow reduction of hydrocarbon liquid in silica nanochannel: Insight from many-body dissipative particle dynamics simulations journal December 2021
Predicting dynamics and rheology of blood flow: A comparative study of multiscale and low-dimensional models of red blood cells journal September 2011
Discrete element modeling of deformable pinewood chips in cyclic loading test journal March 2019
A set of hysteretic nonlinear contact models for DEM: Theory, formulation, and application for lignocellulosic biomass journal February 2022
Effect of Confinement on the Dynamic Contact Angle of Hydrocarbons journal September 2016
Computational Study of Pressure-Driven Gas Transport in Nanostructured Carbons: An Alternative Approach journal September 2015
Nanoconfined Water Dynamics in Multilayer Graphene Nanopores journal July 2020
Pore Size Dependence of Permeability in Bicontinuous Nanoporous Media journal December 2021
A new family of mesoporous molecular sieves prepared with liquid crystal templates journal December 1992
Nonionic Triblock and Star Diblock Copolymer and Oligomeric Surfactant Syntheses of Highly Ordered, Hydrothermally Stable, Mesoporous Silica Structures journal June 1998
Interfacial Tension of Alkane + Water Systems journal September 2001
Surface Tension of Heptane, Decane, Hexadecane, Eicosane, and Some of Their Binary Mixtures journal September 2002
Experimental Dynamic Viscosities of 2,3-Dimethylpentane up to 60 MPa and from (303.15 to 353.15) K Using a Rolling-Ball Viscometer journal May 2005
Molecular Models of Hydroxide, Oxyhydroxide, and Clay Phases and the Development of a General Force Field journal January 2004
Transferable Potentials for Phase Equilibria. 1. United-Atom Description of n-Alkanes March 1998
A Many-Body Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study of Forced Water–Oil Displacement in Capillary journal December 2011
Effective Fluid Front of the Moving Meniscus in Capillary journal February 2013
Why Are Carbon Nanotubes Fast Transporters of Water? journal February 2008
Enhanced Fluid Flow through Nanoscale Carbon Pipes journal September 2008
Barriers to Superfast Water Transport in Carbon Nanotube Membranes journal April 2013
Reassessing Fast Water Transport Through Carbon Nanotubes journal September 2008
Nanoporous Membranes Derived from Block Copolymers: From Drug Delivery to Water Filtration journal June 2010
Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of two-phase flow in porous media: LB SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW journal January 2004
Dissipative particle dynamics simulation of pore-scale multiphase fluid flow: SIMULATION OF MULTIPHASE FLUID FLOW journal April 2007
Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism journal October 1992
Enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes journal November 2005
Materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes journal April 2016
Subcontinuum mass transport of condensed hydrocarbons in nanoporous media journal April 2015
Fluid flow in carbon nanotubes and nanopipes journal February 2007
Fundamental transport mechanisms, fabrication and potential applications of nanoporous atomically thin membranes journal June 2017
Data driven inference for the repulsive exponent of the Lennard-Jones potential in molecular dynamics simulations journal November 2017
Bayesian selection for coarse-grained models of liquid water journal January 2019
Uncertainties in contact angle goniometry journal January 2019
A many-body dissipative particle dynamics study of fluid–fluid spontaneous capillary displacement journal January 2014
Dissipative particle dynamics for interacting systems journal September 2001
A critical comparison of equilibrium, non-equilibrium and boundary-driven molecular dynamics techniques for studying transport in microporous materials journal November 2001
Thermodynamic consistency in dissipative particle dynamics simulations of strongly nonideal liquids and liquid mixtures journal November 2002
Ion concentrations and velocity profiles in nanochannel electroosmotic flows journal March 2003
Constant-pressure simulations with dissipative particle dynamics journal October 2005
Dissipative particle dynamics with attractive and repulsive particle-particle interactions journal January 2006
Dissipative particle dynamics: Bridging the gap between atomistic and mesoscopic simulation journal September 1997
Bayesian uncertainty quantification and propagation in molecular dynamics simulations: A high performance computing framework journal October 2012
Three dimensional flow structures in a moving droplet on substrate: A dissipative particle dynamics study journal July 2013
Many-body dissipative particle dynamics modeling of fluid flow in fine-grained nanoporous shales journal May 2017
A many-body dissipative particle dynamics study of nanoneedle-liquid interface journal December 2018
Simulation of flow through bead packs using the lattice Boltzmann method journal January 1998
How different are the dynamics of nanoconfined water? journal June 2020
A many-body dissipative particle dynamics study of eccentric droplets impacting inclined fiber journal April 2021
A review of many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD): Theoretical models and its applications journal November 2021
Molecular dynamics simulations of ion separation in nano-channel water flows using an electric field journal July 2019
A modified many-body dissipative particle dynamics model for mesoscopic fluid simulation: methodology, calibration, and application for hydrocarbon and water journal February 2021
Confinement-induced structural changes of water studied by Raman scattering journal September 2011
Vapor-liquid coexistence in many-body dissipative particle dynamics journal December 2003
Dissipative-particle-dynamics model for two-phase flows journal November 2006
Mesoscale modeling of the water liquid-vapor interface: A surface tension calculation journal May 2011
Liquid-phase parametrization and solidification in many-body dissipative particle dynamics journal September 2018
Water Flow in Carbon Nanotubes: Transition to Subcontinuum Transport journal May 2009
Fast Mass Transport Through Sub-2-Nanometer Carbon Nanotubes journal May 2006
Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores journal January 1998
A review of the structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water and ionic liquids via molecular dynamics simulation journal February 2017
Dissipative Particle Dynamics: Introduction, Methodology and Complex Fluid Applications — a Review journal December 2009
Surface Effect on Oil Transportation in Nanochannel: a Molecular Dynamics Study journal June 2017
A many-body dissipative particle dynamics with energy conservation study of droplets icing on microstructure surfaces journal November 2021
Simulating Microscopic Hydrodynamic Phenomena with Dissipative Particle Dynamics journal June 1992
Mechanism of Liquid-Phase Adsorption and Desorption in Coalbed Methane Systems: A New Insight Into an Old Problem journal May 2017
Measurements of the Density for n-Heptane for Pressures up to 100MPa by Using a Vibrating-Wire Densimeter. journal January 1998

Similar Records

Insights into Waterflooding in Hydrocarbon-Bearing Nanochannels of Varying Cross Sections from Mesoscopic Multiphase Flow Simulations
Journal Article · Thu May 11 20:00:00 EDT 2023 · Langmuir · OSTI ID:1976150

Flow reduction of hydrocarbon liquid in silica nanochannel: Insight from many-body dissipative particle dynamics simulations
Journal Article · Wed Sep 29 20:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Molecular Liquids · OSTI ID:2376896