Pore‐scale network modeling of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation: Insight into scale dependence of biogeochemical reaction rates
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- Chao‐Zhong Qin
- Department of Earth Sciences University of Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands
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- S. Majid Hassanizadeh
- Department of Earth Sciences University of Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands
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- Anozie Ebigbo
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering Imperial College London UK
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2016-11
- 権利情報
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1002/2016wr019128
- 公開者
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The engineering of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) has attracted much attention in a number of applications, such as sealing of CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> leakage pathways, soil stabilization, and subsurface remediation of radionuclides and toxic metals. The goal of this work is to gain insight into pore‐scale processes of MICP and scale dependence of biogeochemical reaction rates. This will help us develop efficient field‐scale MICP models. In this work, we have developed a comprehensive pore‐network model for MICP, with geochemical speciation calculated by the open‐source PHREEQC module. A numerical pseudo‐3‐D micromodel as the computational domain was generated by a novel pore‐network generation method. We modeled a three‐stage process in the engineering of MICP including the growth of biofilm, the injection of calcium‐rich medium, and the precipitation of calcium carbonate. A number of test cases were conducted to illustrate how calcite precipitation was influenced by different operating conditions. In addition, we studied the possibility of reducing the computational effort by simplifying geochemical calculations. Finally, the effect of mass transfer limitation of possible carbonate ions in a pore element on calcite precipitation was explored.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Water Resources Research
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Water Resources Research 52 (11), 8794-8810, 2016-11
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
