SFB 1313, C04: Pore-scale and REV-scale approaches to biological and chemical pore-space alteration in porous media

Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems

Research project C04 within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1313 "Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation" funded by the German Research Fondation (DFG) - Project number 327154368

Abstract

Porosity and permeability are two major hydraulic properties that govern flow through porous media. Different kinds of processes can lead to alterations of the pore space which eventually change the hydraulic properties. This project focuses primarily on fluid-solid interfaces that are prone to change as a result of microbial activity. The alterations need to be measured experimentally and interpreted on the scales of interest by means of numerical simulations. It is also required to improve the efficiency of corresponding complex numerical simulation methods.

Further information about this research project

Project leader

apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Class

Researcher

Dr.-Ing. Johannes Hommel
Dr.-Ing. Martin Beck (bis April 2019)
Dr.-Ing. Felix Weinhardt 
Kerem Bozkurt (M.Sc.)

Department

Duration

01/2018 - 12/2025

Funding

Publications

  1. (Journal-) Articles

    1. Lee, D., Weinhardt, F., Hommel, J., Piotrowski, J., Class, H., & Steeb, H. (2023). Machine learning assists in increasing the time resolution of X-ray computed tomography applied to mineral precipitation in porous media. Scientific Reports, 13, 10529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37523-0
    2. Hommel, J., Gehring, L., Weinhardt, F., Ruf, M., & Steeb, H. (2022). Effects of Enzymatically Induced Carbonate Precipitation on Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relations. Minerals, 12(10), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12101186
    3. von Wolff, L., Weinhardt, F., Class, H., Hommel, J., & Rohde, C. (2021). Investigation of Crystal Growth in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation by Micro-Fluidic Experimental Methods and Comparison with Mathematical Modeling. Transport in Porous Media, 137(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01560-y
    4. Scheurer, S., Schäfer Rodrigues Silva, A., Mohammadi, F., Hommel, J., Oladyshkin, S., Flemisch, B., & Nowak, W. (2021). Surrogate-based Bayesian comparison of computationally expensive models: application to microbially induced calcite precipitation. Computational Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-021-10076-9
    5. Hommel, J., Akyel, A., Frieling, Z., Phillips, A. J., Gerlach, R., Cunningham, A. B., & Class, H. (2020). A Numerical Model for Enzymatically Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation. Applied Sciences, 10(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10134538
    6. Cunningham, A. B., Class, H., Ebigbo, A., Gerlach, R., Phillips, A., & Hommel, J. (2019). Field-scale modeling of microbially induced calcite precipitation. Computational Geosciences, tbd. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-018-9797-6
    7. Hommel, J., Coltman, E., & Class, H. (2018). Porosity-Permeability Relations for Evolving Pore Space: A Review with a Focus on (Bio-)geochemically Altered Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, 2(124), Article 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-018-1086-2
  2. Datasets

    1. Lee, D., Weinhardt, F., Hommel, J., Class, H., & Steeb, H. (2023). Time resolved micro-XRCT dataset of Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation (EICP) in sintered glass bead columns. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2227
    2. Ruf, M., Hommel, J., & Steeb, H. (2022). Enzymatically induced carbonate precipitation and its effect on capillary pressure-saturation relations of porous media - micro-XRCT dataset of medium column (sample 3). DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2906
    3. Hommel, J., & Gehring, L. (2022). Enzymatically induced carbonate precipitation and its effect on capillary pressure-saturation relations of porous media - column samples. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-1713
    4. Ruf, M., Hommel, J., & Steeb, H. (2022). Enzymatically induced carbonate precipitation and its effect on capillary pressure-saturation relations of porous media - micro-XRCT dataset of high column (sample 4). DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2907
    5. Hommel, J., & Weinhardt, F. (2022). Enzymatically induced carbonate precipitation and its effect on capillary pressure-saturation relations of porous media - microfluidics samples. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2791
    6. Ruf, M., Hommel, J., & Steeb, H. (2022). Enzymatically induced carbonate precipitation and its effect on capillary pressure-saturation relations of porous media - micro-XRCT dataset of low column (sample 10). DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2908

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