NDLI: Influence of Microbial Growth on Hydraulic Properties of Pore Networks

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Author	Thullner, Martin Zeyer, Josef Kinzelbach, Wolfgang
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	From laboratory experiments it is known that bacterial biomass is able to influence the hydraulic properties of saturated porous media, an effect called bioclogging. To interpret the observations of these experiments and to predict possible bioclogging effects on the field scale it is necessary to use transport models, which are able to include bioclogging. For these models it is necessary to know the relation between the amount of biomass and the hydraulic conductivity of the porous medium. Usually these relations were determined using bundles of parallel pore channels and do not account for interconnections between the pores in more than one dimension. The present study uses two-dimensional pore network models to study the effects of bioclogging on the pore scale. Numerical simulations were done for two different scenarios of the growth of biomass in the pores. Scenario 1 assumes microbial growth in discrete colonies clogging particular pores completely. Scenario 2 assumes microbial growth as a biofilm growing on the wall of each pore. In both scenarios the hydraulic conductivity was reduced by at least two orders of magnitude, but for the colony scenario much less biomass was needed to get a maximal clogging effect and a better agreement with previously published experimental data could be found. For both scenarios it was shown that heterogeneous pore networks could be clogged with less biomass than more homogeneous ones.
Starting Page	99
Ending Page	122
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01693913
Journal	Transport in Porous Media
Volume Number	49
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731634
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Hydrogeology Geotechnical Engineering Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Civil Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Catalysis

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