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Pore-network modeling of biofilm evolution in porous media

✍ Scribed by C.C. Ezeuko; A. Sen; A. Grigoryan; I.D. Gates

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
884 KB
Volume
108
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3592

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Abstract

The influence of bacterial biomass on hydraulic properties of porous media (bioclogging) has been explored as a viable means for optimizing subsurface bioremediation and microbial enhanced oil recovery. In this study, we present a pore network simulator for modeling biofilm evolution in porous media including hydrodynamics and nutrient transport based on coupling of advection transport with Fickian diffusion and a reaction term to account for nutrient consumption. Biofilm has non‐zero permeability permitting liquid flow and transport through the biofilm itself. To handle simultaneous mass transfer in both liquid and biofilm in a pore element, a dual‐diffusion mass transfer model is introduced. The influence of nutrient limitation on predicted results is explored. Nutrient concentration in the network is affected by diffusion coefficient for nutrient transfer across biofilm (compared to water/water diffusion coefficient) under advection dominated transport, represented by mass transport Péclet number >1. The model correctly predicts a dependence of rate of biomass accumulation on inlet concentration. Poor network connectivity shows a significantly large reduction of permeability, for a small biomass pore volume. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2011;108: 2413–2423. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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