Wettability Effects on Primary Drainage Mechanisms and NAPL Distribution: A Pore-Scale Study

Molnar, Ian L.; Gerhard, Jason I.; Willson, Clinton S.; O'Carroll, Denis M.

doi:10.1029/2019WR025381

Title: Wettability Effects on Primary Drainage Mechanisms and NAPL Distribution: A Pore-Scale Study

Journal Article · 15 November 2019 · Water Resources Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025381 · OSTI ID:1599441

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Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada); Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada)
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)

The pore-scale processes governing water drainage behavior in porous media have implications for geoscience multiphase scenarios including carbon capture and storage, contaminant site remediation, oil recovery, and vadose zone processes. However, few studies report directly observed pore-scale water drainage phenomena in 3-D soils. This knowledge gap limits our ability to verify assumptions underlying existing models and develop optimal solutions. As such, this paper utilizes synchrotron X-ray microtomography to present an experimental pore-scale examination of nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL)/water distribution along a primary drainage front as dense NAPL was injected upward into water wetting (WW) and intermediate wetting (IW) sand-packed columns. Pore-network structures were extracted from imaged data sets and mapped onto segmented NAPL/water data sets which allowed quantitative examinations of wettability impacts on (a) the extent to which NAPL fills individual pore bodies and (b) relationships between pore size and the phase occupying the pore, with both considered as a function of distance (and capillary pressure) relative to the NAPL front. These results revealed that several hypotheses treating IW sand similarly to WW sands are simplistic. IW systems exhibited a sequence of pore filling that deviated from traditional capillary pressure-based model predictions: NAPL invades smaller pores, while larger, adjacent pores are bypassed leaving multipore residual water ganglia. NAPL pore saturations were close to 1 and did not change with capillary pressure in IW systems. Overall, the results illustrate how a relatively small change in operative contact angle alters NAPL distribution during water drainage, with important implications for geoscience multiphase flow scenarios.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-94ER14466; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1599441

Journal Information:: Water Resources Research, Vol. 56, Issue 1; ISSN 0043-1397

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

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