Porosity-Permeability Evolution During Simultaneous Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation
Abstract
Abstract Permeability in reactive porous media evolves in complex ways that are hard to predict. Macroscopic empirical equations are often used to estimate permeability evolution but fail to reflect the impact of pore scale reactions on permeability. This work aims to understand the evolution of permeability in systems where mineral dissolution and precipitation occur simultaneously. Pore network models are used for permeability simulation of a Paluxy sandstone using pore and pore‐throat size distributions from the analysis of X‐ray CT images. Pore and pore‐throat radii are increased and decreased to reflect the effects of dissolution and precipitation reactions. Varying spatial distributions of reactions are simulated and the resulting porosity and permeability values compared with commonly used macroscopic equations. It is observed that when dissolution occurs at the inlet and precipitation at the outlet, porosity increases while permeability decreases. Similar results are also observed in the respective opposite scenario where precipitation occurs at the inlet and dissolution at the outlet. When dissolution and precipitation reactions are randomly distributed throughout the network, porosity increases with little change in permeability that is not captured by the empirical equations. When reactions are controlled by pore and pore‐throat sizes, such as dissolution occurring in pores andmore »
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- Southern States Energy Board, Peachtree Corners, GA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1849315
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1788138
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0031830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water Resources Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 57; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Water Resources
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Sabo, Mollie S., and Beckingham, Lauren E. Porosity-Permeability Evolution During Simultaneous Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1029/2020wr029072.
Sabo, Mollie S., & Beckingham, Lauren E. Porosity-Permeability Evolution During Simultaneous Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr029072
Sabo, Mollie S., and Beckingham, Lauren E. Thu .
"Porosity-Permeability Evolution During Simultaneous Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr029072. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1849315.
@article{osti_1849315,
title = {Porosity-Permeability Evolution During Simultaneous Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation},
author = {Sabo, Mollie S. and Beckingham, Lauren E.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Permeability in reactive porous media evolves in complex ways that are hard to predict. Macroscopic empirical equations are often used to estimate permeability evolution but fail to reflect the impact of pore scale reactions on permeability. This work aims to understand the evolution of permeability in systems where mineral dissolution and precipitation occur simultaneously. Pore network models are used for permeability simulation of a Paluxy sandstone using pore and pore‐throat size distributions from the analysis of X‐ray CT images. Pore and pore‐throat radii are increased and decreased to reflect the effects of dissolution and precipitation reactions. Varying spatial distributions of reactions are simulated and the resulting porosity and permeability values compared with commonly used macroscopic equations. It is observed that when dissolution occurs at the inlet and precipitation at the outlet, porosity increases while permeability decreases. Similar results are also observed in the respective opposite scenario where precipitation occurs at the inlet and dissolution at the outlet. When dissolution and precipitation reactions are randomly distributed throughout the network, porosity increases with little change in permeability that is not captured by the empirical equations. When reactions are controlled by pore and pore‐throat sizes, such as dissolution occurring in pores and pore‐throats of small size and precipitation in pores and pore‐throats of larger size, porosity and permeability decrease. When precipitation occurs in pores and pore‐throats of smaller size and dissolution in pores and pore‐throats of larger size, porosity and permeability increase and is described relatively well by the Verma‐Pruess porosity‐permeability equation.},
doi = {10.1029/2020wr029072},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
number = 6,
volume = 57,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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