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@ARTICLE{Lnartz:1019573,
author = {Lönartz, Mara I. and Yang, Yuankai and Deissmann, Guido
and Bosbach, Dirk and Poonoosamy, Jenna},
title = {{C}apturing the {D}ynamic {P}rocesses of {P}orosity
{C}logging},
journal = {Water resources research},
volume = {59},
number = {11},
issn = {0043-1397},
address = {[New York]},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-05508},
pages = {e2023WR034722},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Understanding geochemical processes and their impact
onmacroscopic transport properties of porous media is
essential fordescribing the long-term evolution of various
subsurfacesystems. Chemical and thermal gradients promote
mineralprecipitation reactions in porous media, resulting in
a reductionof porosity and potentially clogging transport
pathways ofsolutes. Commonly applied porosity-diffusivity
relationships incontinuum-scale reactive transport modelling
based on Archie’slaw and extended versions thereof
describe the case of cloggingas a final state, setting the
effective diffusivity to a negligible lowvalue. However,
recent experiments and pore-scale modellinginvestigations
demonstrated the limitations of empirical laws inpredicting
effective transport properties in response to aprecipitation
induced porosity reduction and pore clogging,suggesting a
non-negligible inherent diffusivity of
newly-formedprecipitates. To verify this hypothesis, we
developed amicrofluidic reactor design that combines
time-lapse opticalmicroscopy and confocal Raman
spectroscopy, providing realtimeinsights into mineral
precipitation induced porosity cloggingunder purely
diffusive transport conditions, using theprecipitation of
celestine (SrSO4) as a model system (Figure 1a).As the pore
network became clogged, isotopic tracer diffusionexperiments
were conducted and monitored by Ramanspectroscopy to
visualize the transport of deuterium through theevolving
microporosity of the precipitates, demonstrating
thenon-final state of clogging (Figure 1b). The evolution of
theporosity-diffusivity relation in response to
precipitation reactionsshows an increasingly deviating
behavior to Archie’s law. Theapplication of an extended
power law improved the descriptionof the evolving
porosity-diffusivity relation, but still
neglectedpost-clogging features. Currently, we develop
microfluidicsetups to answer the question how
clogging-related processesdepend on initial pore geometries.
The combination ofmicrofluidic experiments and pore-scale
modelling opens newpossibilities to identify and validate
relevant pore-scaleprocesses, providing data for upscaling
approaches and to derivekey relationships for
continuum-scale reactive transportsimulations.},
cin = {IEK-6},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-6-20101013},
pnm = {1411 - Nuclear Waste Disposal (POF4-141)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1411},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001106027500001},
doi = {10.1029/2023WR034722},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1019573},
}