Permeability Hysteresis From Microchannels Opening During Dissolution/Reprecipitation Cycle

Lesueur, Martin; Poulet, Thomas; Veveakis, Manolis

doi:10.1029/2020GL088674

Title: Permeability Hysteresis From Microchannels Opening During Dissolution/Reprecipitation Cycle

Journal Article · 09 September 2020 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088674 · OSTI ID:1664616

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^[2]; Veveakis, Manolis ^[3]

Civil and Environmental Engineering Duke University Durham NC USA, Energy Geosciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA USA
CSIRO Mineral Resources Kensington WA Australia
Civil and Environmental Engineering Duke University Durham NC USA

Abstract Permeability is a critical parameter for geological resources characterization. Its evolution with respect to porosity is particularly interesting and many research initiatives focus on deriving such relationships, to understand some hydraulic impacts of microstructure alteration. Permeability evolution from chemical reactions, for instance, can become complex as flow channels may open during rock dissolution. In this contribution, we show that this phenomenon can lead to irregular porosity‐permeability curves and permeability hysteresis after reprecipitation. Current approaches describing permeability as a simple function of porosity can therefore not capture this behavior, and we advocate instead the use of dynamic modeling for such scenarios. We demonstrate our approach by modeling a dissolution/precipitation cycle for a unit cell pore channel and quantify the process at larger scale on three different rock samples, whose microstructures are reconstructed from segmented micro‐Computerised Tomography scans.

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OSTI ID:: 1664616

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 47; ISSN 0094-8276

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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