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A "lab-on-a-chip" experiment for assessing mineral precipitation processes in fractured porous media

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The understanding of dissolution and precipitation of minerals and its impact on the transport of fluids in fractured media is essential for various subsurface applications including shale gas production using hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), CO2 sequestration, or geothermal energy extraction. The implementation of such coupled processes into numerical reactive transport codes requires a mechanistic process understanding and model validation with quantitative experiments. In this context, we developed a microfluidic "lab-on-chip" of a reactive fractured porous medium of 800 µm × 900 µm size with 10 µm depth. The fractured medium consisted of compacted celestine grains (grain size 4 - 9 µm). A BaCl2 solution was injected into the microreactor at a flow rate of 500 nl min-1, leading to the dissolution of celestine and an epitaxial growth of barite on its surface (Poonoosamy et al., 2016). Our investigations including confocal Raman spectroscopic techniques allowed for monitoring the temporal mineral transformation at the pore scale in 2D and 3D geometries. The fractured porous medium causes a heterogeneous flow field in the microreactor that leads to spatially different mineral transformation rates. In these experiments, the dynamic evolution of surface passivation processes depends on two intertwined processes: i) the dissolution of the primary mineral that is needed for the subsequent precipitation, and ii) the suppression of the dissolution reaction as a result of secondary mineral precipitation. However, the description of evolving reactive surface areas to account for mineral passivation mechanisms in reactive transport models following Daval et al. (2009) showed several limitations, and prompt for an improved description of passivation processes that includes the diffusive properties of secondary phases (Poonoosamy et al., 2020). The results of the ongoing microfluidic experiments in combination with advanced pore-scale modelling will provide new insights regarding application and extension of the description of surface passivation processes to be included in (continuum-scale) reactive transport models.Daval D., Martinez I., Corvisier J., Findling N., Goffé B. and Guyotac F. (2009) Carbonation of Ca-bearing silicates, the case of wollastonite: Experimental investigations and kinetic modelling. Chem. Geol. 265(1-2), 63-78.Poonoosamy J., Curti E., Kosakowski G., Van Loon L. R., Grolimund D. and Mäder U. (2016) Barite precipitation following celestite dissolution in a porous medium: a SEM/BSE and micro XRF/XRD study. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 182, 131-144.Poonoosamy J., Klinkenberg M., Deissmann G., Brandt F., Bosbach D., Mäder U. and Kosakowski G. (2020) Effects of solution supersaturation on barite precipitation in porous media and consequences on permeability: experiments and modelling. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 270, 43-60.
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Jenna Poonoosamy, Sophie Roman, Cyprien Soulaine, Hang Deng, Sergi Molins, et al.. A "lab-on-a-chip" experiment for assessing mineral precipitation processes in fractured porous media. EGU General Assembly 2020, May 2020, Online, France. ⟨10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13613⟩. ⟨hal-03554408⟩
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