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Using Xanthan Gum Solutions to Characterize Porous Media with the Yield Stress Fluid Porosimetry Method: Robustness of the Method and Effects of Polymer Concentration

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RODRÍGUEZ DE CASTRO, Antonio
164351 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux [I2M]
211915 Mechanics surfaces and materials processing [MSMP]
AHMADI-SENICHAULT, Azita
17163 Transferts, écoulements, fluides, énergétique [TREFLE]
164351 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux [I2M]
300474 ENSAM TALENCE
OMARI, Abdelaziz
164351 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux [I2M]

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http://hdl.handle.net/10985/15656
Date
2018
Journal
Transport in Porous Media

Abstract

The yield stress fluids porosimetry method (YSM)was recently presented as a simple and non-toxic potential alternative to the extensively used mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP). The success of YSM heavily relies on the choice of an appropriate yield stress fluid to be injected through the investigated porous medium. In previous works, xanthan gum aqueous solutions were used due to their ability to exhibit a pseudo-yield stress without substantial levels of unwanted thixotropy or viscoelasticity. Given that YSM is based on the existence of a yield stress, the accuracy of the obtained pore size distribution (PSD) crucially depends on the capacity of the injected fluid to emulate the shear rheology of a yield stress fluid. However, this capacity has still not been fully assessed in the case of xanthan gum solutions. Neither has the robustness of YSM with regard to errors in the determination of the shear-rheology parameters of the injected fluid been analysed. The shear viscosity of polymer solutions is known to be deeply influenced by polymer concentration. For these reasons, a first objective of this work is to evaluate the effect of polymer concentration on the accuracy of PSDs obtained by YSM when using xanthan gum solutions as injected fluids in laboratory experiments. To do so, xanthan gum solutions with different polymer concentrations were injected through analogous samples of a sintered silicate and the obtained PSDs were compared to the results of standard MIP. Moreover, the sensitivity of YSM to errors in the experimental determination of the shear-rheology parameters was also investigated through numerical experiments. The results of the present work permitted to gain further insight into the viability of YSM as an efficient alternative to MIP.

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