Investigation on bubble snap-off in 3-D pore-throat micro-structures

Yining Wu; Sisi Fang; Caili Dai; Yongpeng Sun; Jichao Fang; Yifei Liu; Long He

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.54, 69-74, October, 2017

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2017.05.019 Export Citation

Investigation on bubble snap-off in 3-D pore-throat micro-structures

Yining Wu^†, Sisi Fang, Caili Dai, Yongpeng Sun, Jichao Fang, Yifei Liu, and Long He¹

School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People’s Republic of China
¹Petroleum Engineering Institute, Northwest Branch of Sinopec, Urumchi 830000, People’s Republic of China

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Bubble behaviors in the single and cascaded three-dimensional (3-D) pore-throat micromodels were studied at the operating ranging from 0.0007 to 0.0249. It was found that the average size of daughter bubbles decreased with the rising of the pore-throat ratio, length of throat and mother bubble velocity. The variation of the average size of daughter bubbles with capillary number could be scaled with a power law. In addition, the bubble breakup mainly occurred in the first pore-throat structure and the size of the daughter bubbles maintained almost stable.

Keywords:Bubble;Break-up;3-D pore-throat structure;Foam;Microchannel

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