Physicochemical Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media

Applications in Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering

Mikhail Panfilov

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783527342358
• eBook ISBN:
  9783527806584
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Mechanics

A unique and timely book on understanding and tailoring the flow of fluids in porous materials

Porous media play a key role in chemical processes, gas and water purification, gas storage and the development of new multifunctional materials. Understanding hydrodynamics in porous media is decisive for enabling a wide range of applications in materials science and chemical engineering. This all-encompassing book offers a timely overview of all flow and transport processes in which chemical or physicochemical phenomena such as dissolution, phase transition, reactions, adsorption, diffusion, capillarity, and surface phenomena are essential. It brings together both theoretical and experimental results and includes important industrial applications.

Physicochemical Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media: Applications in Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering explains the thermodynamics of phase equilibria for multicomponent fluids, physicochemical models of single-phase and immiscible two-phase flow, based on the macroscopic theory of oil displacement by water. It also covers the theory of two-phase flow with partial miscibility and describes partially miscible flows with phase transitions by means of the negative saturation approach. The final chapters are devoted to flow with chemical reactions, based on the example of in-situ leaching of uranium, and flow with bio-chemical reactions in terms of the underground storage of hydrogen.

-Brings together the theoretical and experimental results necessary for the understanding of hydrodynamics in porous media
-Covers important industrial applications such as underground leaching of uranium and underground storage of hydrogen
-Presents a state-of-the-art overview and summarizes the research results usually found only scattered in the literature

Physicochemical Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media: Applications in Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering will appeal to chemical engineers, materials scientists, applied physicists, and mechanical engineers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Thermodynamics of Pure Fluids
• 2 Thermodynamics of Mixtures
• 3 Chemistry of Mixtures
• 4 Reactive Transport with a Single Reaction
• 5 Reactive Transport with Multiple Reactions (Application to In Situ Leaching)
• 6 Surface and Capillary Phenomena
• 7 Meniscus Movement in a Single Pore
• 8 Stochastic Properties of Phase Cluster in Pore Networks
• 9 Macroscale Theory of Immiscible Two‐Phase Flow
• 10 Nonlinear Waves in Miscible Two‐phase Flow (Application to Enhanced Oil Recovery)
• 11 Counter Waves in Miscible Two‐phase Flow with Gravity (Application to CO & H Storage)
• 12 Flow with Variable Number of Phases: Method of Negative Saturations
• 13 Biochemical Fluid Dynamics of Porous Media
• A Chemical Potential of a Pure Component from the Homogeneity of Gibbs Energy
• B Chemical Potential for Cubic EOS
• C Chemical Potential of Mixtures from the Homogeneity of Gibbs Energy
• D Calculation of the Integral in (2.25a)
• E Hugoniot–Rankine Conditions
• F Numerical Code (Matlab) Calculating Phase Diagram of a Pure Fluid
• Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement