Fractal Characterization of Spontaneous Co-current Imbibition in Porous Media

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• 作者：Jianchao Cai ; Boming Yu ; Mingqing Zou ; Liang Luo
• 刊名：Energy & Fuels
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：March 18, 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：24
• 期：3
• 页码：1860-1867
• 全文大小：820K
• 年卷期：v.24,no.3(March 18, 2010)
• ISSN：1520-5029

文摘

Spontaneous capillary imbibition is an important fundamental phenomenon existing extensively in a variety of processes such as polymer composite manufacturing, oil recovery, soil science and hydrology, etc. In this work, analytical expressions for characterizing a spontaneous co-current imbibition process of wetting fluid into gas-saturated porous media are proposed based on the fractal characters of porous media. The mass of imbibed liquid is expressed as a function of the fractal dimensions for pores and for tortuous capillaries, the minimum and maximum hydraulic diameter of pores, and the ratio for minimum to maximum hydraulic diameters, porosity, and fluid properties, as well as the fluid−solid interaction. The imbibed weight predicted by the present model is in good agreement with the available experimental data.