Artículo
An analytical effective excess charge density model to predict the streaming potential generated by unsaturated flow
Fecha de publicación:
01/2019
Editorial:
Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
Revista:
Geophysical Journal International
ISSN:
0956-540X
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
The self-potential (SP) method is a passive geophysical method that relies on the measurement of naturally occurring electrical field. One of the contributions to the SP signal is the streaming potential, which is of particular interest in hydrogeophysics as it is directly related to both the water flow and porous medium properties. The streaming current is generated by the relative displacement of an excess of electrical charges located in the electrical double layer surrounding the minerals of the porous media. In this study, we develop a physically based analytical model to estimate the effective excess charge density dragged by the water flow under partially saturated conditions. The proposed model is based on the assumption that the porous media can be represented by a bundle of tortuous capillary tubes with a fractal pore size distribution. The excess charge that is effectively dragged by the water flow is estimated using a flux averaging approach. Under these hypotheses, this new model describes the effective excess charge density as a function of saturation and relative permeability while also depending on the chemical and interface properties, and on petrophysical parameters of themedia. The expression of themodel has an analytical single closed-formwhich is consistent with a previous model developed from a different approach. The performance of the proposed model is then tested against previous models and different sets of laboratory and field data from the literature. The predictions of the proposed model fits fairly well the experimental data and shows improvements to estimate the magnitude of the effective excess charge density over the previous models. A relationship between the effective excess charge density and permeability can also be derived from the proposed model, representing a generalization to unsaturated conditions of a widely used empirical relationship. This new model proposes a simple and efficient way to model the streaming current generation for partially saturated porous media.
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Soldi, Mariangeles; Jougnot, Damien; Guarracino, Luis; An analytical effective excess charge density model to predict the streaming potential generated by unsaturated flow; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Geophysical Journal International; 216; 1; 1-2019; 380-394
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