Surface Charge Affecting Fluid–Fluid Displacement at Pore Scale

Abstract: Efficiency in fluid–fluid displacement is drastically reduced by viscous fingering, limiting the overall effectiveness in enhanced oil recovery, membrane science, and lateral flow devices used in biomedical applications. Local instabilities at the fluid–fluid interface lead to finger‐like patterns when a less viscous fluid displaces an immiscible fluid of higher viscosity. This widely observed phenomenon in multiphase flow inside porous media is infamously intricate to control, especially for given geometry and viscosity ratio. The presented study uses a highly controlled microfluidic porous network structure with tailored ionic surface strength. The direct correlation of viscous fingering evolution on the porous structure's zeta potential at a pore‐scale level is demonstrated via polyelectrolyte coatings using a layer‐by‐layer technique. Displacement patterns are tuned from vigorous viscous fingering over stable displacement to corner flow events across a broad range of capillary numbers depending on the applied coatings. The experimental data show an increasing trend of oil recovery with increasing surface wettability, consistent with several previous findings. Furthermore, the results reveal that surface zeta potential correlates positively with recovery rate but negatively with the displacement stability quantified by the fractal dimension. These insights enable a more targeted porous media design to obtain optimal multiphase flow control.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

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Surface Charge Affecting Fluid–Fluid Displacement at Pore Scale ; day:02 ; month:02 ; year:2022 ; extent:9
Advanced materials interfaces ; (02.02.2022) (gesamt 9)

Urheber
Kalde, Anna
Lippold, Sophia
Loelsberg, Jonas
Mertens, Ann‐Kathrin
Linkhorst, John
Tsai, Peichun Amy
Wessling, Matthias

DOI
10.1002/admi.202101895
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022020214091098338755
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15.08.2025, 07:36 MESZ

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