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Zeta potential of porous rocks in contact with mixtures of monovalent and divalent electrolytes
Author(s) -
Thanh Luong Duy,
Sprik Rudolf,
Nguyen Xuan Ca
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/1365-2478.12759
Subject(s) - divalent , electrokinetic phenomena , zeta potential , electrolyte , chemistry , ionic strength , inorganic chemistry , ion , ionic bonding , streaming current , chemical physics , thermodynamics , materials science , aqueous solution , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , physics , electrode , nanoparticle
The zeta potential is one of the most important parameters influencing the electrokinetic coupling. Most reservoir rocks are saturated or partially saturated by natural water containing various types of ions (mostly monovalent and divalent ions). Therefore, understanding how the zeta potential behaves for mixtures of electrolytes is very important. In this work, measurements of the zeta potential for four different silica‐based samples saturated by seven different mixtures of monovalent and divalent electrolytes are then carried out at a fixed ionic strength. It is seen that the magnitude of the measured zeta potential decreases with increasing divalent cation fraction. The experimental results are then explained by a model developed for mixtures of monovalent and divalent electrolytes. The result shows that the theoretical model is able to reproduce the main trend of the variation of the zeta potential with divalent cation fractions. Additionally, the model can fit the experimental data reported in literature well for reasonable values of the input parameters.