Patent Application: US-58787709-A

Abstract:
propagation of ultrasound through a porous body saturated with liquid generates electric response . this electro - acoustic effect is called “ seismoelectric current ”, whereas reverse version , when electric field is driving force , is “ electroseismic current ”. it is possible to measure seismoelectric current with existing electro - acoustic devices , which had been designed for characterizing liquid dispersions . such versatility allows calibration of said devise using dispersion and then applying it for characterizing porous body . in general , magnitude of seismoelectric current depends on porosity , pore size , zeta potential of pore surfaces and elastic properties of matrix . it is possible to adjust conductivity of liquid for simplifying these dependences . for instance , liquid with high ionic strength causes double layers become thin comparing to the pore size , which eliminates dependence of said currents on pore size . we suggest using such case for characterizing porosity . magnitude of the said currents is proportional to zeta potential . this parameter can be calculated when porosity is known . in contrary , saturation of porous body with low conducting liquid leads to complete overlap of double layers , which can be used for characterizing pore size . phase of the said currents can be used for determining iso - electric point because it rotates 180 degrees when liquid composition varies through this point .

Description:
the following detailed description of the invention includes : a description of the hardware required to practice the invention ; a novel way to calibrate said electro - acoustic sensor ; measurements of the seismo - electric current generated by deposits of solid sedimenting particles , porous chromatographic silica particles and geological cores ; and interpretation of the collected experimental data in terms of porosity , pore size and zeta potential . the proposed instrument for measuring seismo - electric current employs an electro - acoustic spectrometer for generating and sensing this effect . there is one embodiment of such an electro - acoustic device presented in u . s . pat . no . 6 , 449 , 563 , issued september 2002 to a . s . dukhin and p . j goetz and commercialized by dispersion technology as a model dt - 300 . we use this device for experimental verification of the suggested method . we add a novel sample handling system and novel calibration procedure , which allow using this device for characterizing porous bodies rather than dispersions and emulsions , as was intended in said patent . the novel sample handling system is shown in fig2 . the electro - acoustic probe is placed vertically in a suitable stand that orients it such that the face of the probe with the gold electrode is on top . a cylindrical fixture around the top of the probe creates a cup with the probe face serving as a bottom of said cup . this cup can be filled with liquid and a porous body can be placed in this liquid in contact with the gold electrode . ultrasound pulses generated by the electro - acoustic probe enter the liquid phase through the gold electrode , whereupon they enter the porous body that is placed on top of the gold electrode . the sound wave generates a seismo - electric current as it propagates through said porous body and is sensed as an alternating current between the gold electrode and its surrounding stainless steel shell . the electronics measures and processes these current pulses in a manner similar to the electro - acoustic pulses generated by dispersed particles as described in said patent . we suggest a novel procedure for calibrating this probe using the seismo - electric current produced by a deposit of sedimenting solid particles . we want to provide proof that this electro - acoustic signal is indeed a seismo - electric current . to achieve this goal we orient the electro - acoustic probe vertically , as shown in fig2 , and allow the particles to build a deposit on the face of the gold sensing electrode . the sound pulses generated by the probe propagate directly into the deposit and should generate a seismo - electric current that would be measured as an electro - acoustic signal . we should expect some deviation in the electric field line pattern compared to that obtained during zeta potential calibration using a stable dispersion . it turns out that the measurement of a deposit offers a novel calibration procedure that automatically corrects for this deviation . we used three different solid material particles : silica ludox , silica geltech 0 . 5 and alumina akp - 30 . each was prepared at a solid concentration of 10 % by weight dispersed in distilled water . the ph , as given in table 1 , was adjusted in each case to provide good stability . the conductivity and ζ - potential of each sample was measured with the dt - 300 before any sedimentation occurred . the particle size distribution of these same dispersions was measured with a dt - 1200 acoustic sensor manufactured by dispersion technology with the results also given in table 1 and psd curves shown in fig3 . fig4 shows the time trend of the cvi signal for five 10 wt % ludox samples , each successive sample containing increased amounts of geltec from 0 to 1 %. the electro - acoustic signal of the unadulterated ludox sample does not change with time , which is expected since these very small 30 nm particles do not sediment appreciably during the period of measurement . however , the added small amount of the larger silica geltech particles causes a time rate of change proportional to the amount of the added large particles due to an accumulation of these particles near the probe surface . we see that the measurement is very sensitive to even small amounts of the larger particles , as little as 0 . 1 %. this behavior confirms that the measured signal comes from the area near the probe surface . fig5 includes the data from fig4 , but on a larger scale also shows data for even higher concentrations of geltec at 3 % and 5 %. also shown is a 10 wt % geltec dispersed simply in water . these experiments demonstrate that the electro - acoustic signal in each case reaches some saturation level at a certain moment in time . the question arises as to the reason for such time dependence . why does the measured signal first reach a maximum and then decrease somewhat ? the gradient of pressure determines the direction of the particles motion within the sediment and in turn determines the magnitude and phase of the electro - acoustic signal . at the start of the sedimentation experiment , the particles have settled only slightly and all particles experience the same gradient of pressure and move in the same direction thereby contributing signal in the same phase . when the sediment reaches a depth equal to one - half wavelength the magnitude of the signal reaches a maximum value since the peak signal occurs at an instant for which all the particles within this depth move in the same direction . however , when the depth of the sediment becomes slightly larger than a half wavelength , the peak signal occurs at an instant of time when the particles in the top layer are moving in the opposite direction to that of particles below this depth and thereby subtract from the measured signal . therefore , the signal reaches maximum when particles have finished filling this half - wavelength layer and then begin decay when the second half wavelength layer starts filling up . however , particles in the second layer are further away from the surface than in the first layer and therefore the sound is weaker there due to attenuation and particles of the second half wavelength layer can never completely compensate the contribution of the first layer . eventually , after filling several half wavelengths , the signal comes to some steady state level . let us denote this critical sediment thickness at which the sediment fills to a depth of half wavelength by : there several ways to verify this hypothesis of observed correlation between the measured time trend in the electro - acoustic signal and sedimentation . the dt - 300 typically performs electro - acoustic measurements at a frequency of 3 . 3 mhz , corresponding to a wavelength in water of about 500 microns . accordingly , the thickness of the sediment layer in which all particles move in the same direction due to same sign of the pressure gradient is about 250 microns . increasing the frequency twofold would reduce thickness of the first half - wavelength layer from 250 microns to 125 microns . this thinner layer should be filled twice as fast at 6 . 6 mhz as at 3 . 3 mhz . fig6 compares the time evolution for an identical 10 wt % geltech sample measured at 3 . 3 and 6 . 6 mhz . the time to reach the maximum decreases from 178 to 58 minutes , somewhat more than the expected two times decrease , but more or less confirming our hypothesis . ( we think that the somewhat faster than expected time to reach the maxima at the higher frequency occurs because the fewer particles in the this thinner sediment layer produce a reduced pressure in the deposit leading to a correspondingly smaller packing density , and hence require less time to fill the layer .) by the same logic , if we reduce the concentration of geltec particles by two times , from 10 % to 5 %, we would expect the critical time required to reach a maximum cvi signal to increase by two times . fig5 shows that this is indeed the case , as the time to reach a maximum increases from 178 minutes to 395 minutes . fig6 shows that a 10 wt % alumina dispersion reaches a maximum even more slowly than the silica geltech sample due to smaller particle size . the critical time for the geltec sample is about six hours . we can test our hypothesis that the signal arises primarily from particles in the deposit on the probe surface by changing the ζ - potential of the particles . we can achieve this by varying the ph in the solution above this alumina deposit . alumina is a good choice for this test because it has well - known isoelectric point at ph = 9 . the supernate solution above the deposit initially had a ph of 4 . 6 . at this point , we injected a small amount of 1m koh into the supernate which increased the ph to 11 . the sample was not mixed in order to keep deposit intact : we relied only on ion diffusion to change the ph in the deposit . fig7 shows continuing values of electro - acoustic signal magnitude and phase . it is seen that magnitude exhibits an immediate and rapid decay , which reflects a decrease of the ζ - potential in the deposit due to increasing ph . however , the phase begins to change only after about four hours . this is an indication that some particles , apparently on the top of the deposit , begin to re - charge . it is known from general electro - acoustic theory that the most pronounced characteristics of the iso - electric point is a 180 degree change in the phase of the measured electro - acoustic signal . we observe this phase shift here , but spread out over three hours . this gradual shift in phase agrees with our assumption of slow ion diffusion through the deposit and a slow recharge from the top to bottom of the sediment . having confirmed our hypothesis concerning the interpretation of these sedimentation trends , we can now apply these data for calculating the properties of the deposit . knowing the critical thickness h , the time t cr to reach the maximum signal , and the original volume fraction of the dispersion φ , allows us to estimate the volume fraction φ sed . in other words , we can calculate porosity of the deposit using the measured kinetic curve . let us assume that we have dispersion of spherical particles with an initial homogeneous volume fraction φ , density ρ p in a newtonian liquid with density ρ m and dynamic viscosity η . the particle size distribution is assumed lognormal and denoted as p ( a i ), where a i is radius of particles in the fraction i with a fractional volume fraction φ i = φp ( a i ) these particles are settling , under the influence of a specific acceleration g , at a fractional sedimentation velocity v i given by : these settling particles build up a deposit on the face of the probe . it takes time t , to fill the first half wavelength layer h . having this time from experiment , we can calculate how many particles have reached surface of the probe due to sedimentation . we should take into account that each fraction of particles contributes individually and presumable independently to this deposit - building process based on the sedimentation velocity of its respective volume fraction . this gives us the following equation for the volume fraction of particles in the deposit : we can apply this equation to calculate the volume fraction of the silica and alumina deposits . in the case of silica geltech , the critical time t cr equals 178 minutes and the average square of the particle diameter in microns is 0 . 325 . this leads to the following value for the volume fraction of the silica in the deposit : in the case of alumina akp - 30 , the critical time t cr equals 240 minutes and the average square of particle diameter in microns equals 0 . 152 , which yields following value for the volume fraction : these results correlate well with the measured particle size distributions of the silica and alumina materials . alumina is much more polydisperse , which in principle allows more dense packing of particles in the deposit . it is important to stress here that we have not yet used any electro - acoustic theory , just the obvious mass balance and the assumption of stokes sedimentation of individual particles . we can test the applicability of the existing electro - acoustic theory that was developed for dispersions using the maximum value of the electro - acoustic signal . this theory assumes that particles move relative to the liquid due to the density contrast . this electro - acoustic effect is called colloid vibration current ( cvi ) and described in details by a . s . dukhin and p . j . goetz . there is a well - verified theory of cvi for concentrated dispersion , which yields a simple equation for cvi at the smoluchowski limit for sufficiently small particles : where φ is volume fraction of the dispersed phase , φ = 1 − f , f is porosity , ρ p and ρ s are density of the particles and of the dispersion : the parameters k s and k m are the conductivity of the dispersion and media respectively . according to maxwell - wagner theory [ 5 ], their ratio at high frequency and with negligible surface conductivity equals : the parameter a is a calibration constant determined with calibration procedure using silica ludox . if we assume that the measured signal generated by the deposit is cvi , then we can use the volume fraction of particles in the deposit as calculated above to estimate the ζ - potential . if our assumptions were valid , then this estimate of the zeta potential would be similar to that measured for the dispersion of the same material as was presented in the table 1 . however , it turns out that the zeta potential value of calculated using these data with traditional theory is an unbelievable − 244 mv for silica geltech and an almost equally unbelievable value of 151 mv for alumina akp - 30 . ( we should perhaps note that these calculations have neglected the effect of the particle size , but including this would only make the computed zeta potential values even larger .) these unreasonable zeta potential values prove that traditional theory does not describe generation of the electro - acoustic signal in the deposit and that the applicable phenomenon is not colloid vibration current . this is hardly surprising at this point . we have already stated that the mechanism of electro - acoustic coupling in deposits and porous bodies is completely different from that of dispersions . the propagating ultrasound wave expands and contracts the deposit . particles in the deposit are pushed together by gravity , but because of the high ζ - potential they do not aggregate . rather , they build a flexible network that moves relative to the liquid , in the process displacing ions in the double layer and generating a streaming current . this occurs in a non - isochoric mode , and as discussed above , the alternative term for this phenomenon is a seismo - electric effect . there is one more important fact . the phase of cvi signal is shifted relative to the ultrasound phase due to inertial effects . this phase shift must exist even for submicron particles used in this work if generated measured signal is cvi indeed . however , we do not observe such phase shift . for positive alumina , phase is 360 degrees within 1 degree . for negative silica and re - charged alumina , it is exactly 180 degrees within 1 degree . this indicates that particles size does not play any role . relative motion of solid and liquid phases occurs in phase with ultrasound . this correlates with suggested notion of the weak very flexible network in the deposit . for calculating ζ - potential of the particles in these deposits , instead of the eq . 9 , we should use another equation , which would be derived from the frenkel &# 39 ; s theory . this theory yields expression for seismoelectric potential e and as a function of system displacement u , eq . 5 . electro - acoustic probe measures current , not potential and as function of the pressure gradient , not displacement . we can replace displacement with pressure using general equation from the acoustic theory : also , transition from the potential to current usually brings conductivities ratio , conductivity of the system divided by conductivity of media . this means that we can guess an approximate equation for the seismoelectric current i see as following : if we would use this equation , ζ - potentials for alumina and silica particles in deposits would become − 68 mv and 98 mv correspondingly . these values are mush closer to the real ζ - potential values for these materials . difference might be related to the neglected surface conductivity or to the unknown yet function of the compressibilities . as a next step , we can use large porous particles instead of solid particles for building the deposit . we selected some well - characterized silica - based porous particles manufactured for chromatography use . we used a set of five cpg powders provided by quantachrome corporation , each having the same porosity but a different pore size . the particle size of such material usually exceeds 50 microns so they build a very rapid deposit . these materials allow us to verify the prediction of frenkel &# 39 ; s theory that the magnitude of the seismo - electric signal is independent of the pore size for thin and isolated double layers . in order to perform such a test , we should saturate the pores with a liquid having an appropriate ionic strength . the double layer would be completely overlapped at low ionic strength and for this case we should expect a dependence on pore size . in contrast , for high ionic strength liquid , the double layer would be thin compared with pore size and dependence of the signal with pore size should diminish . we use three different liquids : ethanol , distilled water and a 0 . 11 molar kcl solution . each sample was prepared by adding 0 . 5 g of particles to 10 ml of the liquid . the sample was placed into the sample cup after 10 minutes of equilibration . the particles build a complete deposit on the surface of the electro - acoustic probe within one minute . the thickness of this deposit exceeded 1 mm , which eliminates any electro - acoustic signal dependence on the deposit height . the experiment protocol consisted of five consecutive measurements of the electro - acoustic signal . each measurement takes about 30 seconds for a water - based samples and about 1 minute for the others . in order to test that the deposit structure is uniform , we use a pipette to re - suspend the particles and then allow them to build yet another deposit . such re - deposition of the sample causes some variation in the measured signal . usually , this variation is very little , much smaller than difference between samples . however , it was still larger than precision of the each five measurements set , which is in average 0 . 015 of 1 million units of the electro - acoustic signal . table 2 presents data on the pore size , pore volume and porosity of these cpg samples as measured by mercury intrusion and extrusion experiments . the experiments were performed over a wide range for pressures starting in vacuum and continuing up to 60000 psi ( 1 psi = 6 . 895 × 10 − 3 mpa ) using a quantachrome poremaster 60 instrument . the same table also presents the electro - acoustic signal magnitude measured for these particles when saturated with 0 . 11 kcl solution . according to frenkel &# 39 ; s theory , this signal should correlate mostly with porosity and become independent of the pore size , because high ionic strength makes for a thin isolated dl . we can see that this prediction of the frenkel &# 39 ; s theory is valid . table 3 presents data for the electro - acoustic signal for the same particles , but instead saturated with different liquids having widely different conductivity and corresponding debye length . we omit data for the sample with the smallest 12 nm pores , because the size of these pores becomes comparable with size of ions in low conducting ethanol and this might create artifacts . it is seen that decreasing the ionic strength “ turns on ” the electro - acoustic signal dependence on pore size . fig8 presents this same electro - acoustic data , but the signal is normalized such that the value for the smallest pore size of 35 nm is taken as unity . this observation does not contradict frenkel &# 39 ; s theory because the dl becomes completely overlapped in ethanol . there is no existing theory that would describe seismo - electric current under these conditions . this experiment confirms that we can use liquid with a high ionic strength for saturating porous bodies in order to eliminate pore size influence and determine only porosity . then , we can saturate the same porous body with low conducting liquid and get information on pore size . we have measured several cylindrical geological cores of sandstone from different mines . they are marked according to the place of origin as ohio ss , berea ss and orchard ss . these objects are examples of a truly porous body versus sediment plugs considered above . initially these cores are wetted in distilled water . the composition of the covering solution changes over time due to ion exchange and the conductivity eventually increase to 0 . 0179 s / m , which roughly corresponds to 0 . 001m and a debye length of roughly 8 . 7 nm , as noted in table 3 . this would correspond to an isolated thin dl condition for these relatively large pores . as the next step , we dried these cores and then wetted them in hexane . the conductivity of hexane , measured with a dispersion technology dt - 700 , is less than 10 − 11 s / m , which corresponds to a debye length greater than 6 . 5 microns . this estimate of debye length includes correction for the increased ion size in non - polar liquids . this would correspond to an overlap dl condition for these now relatively small particles . the cores are placed on their sides in order to expose both circular faces of these cylinders to the solution and allow their simultaneous equilibration . after the equilibration process has finished , the same equilibrium solution is used to fill the cup on the top face of the electro - acoustic probe , as shown in fig1 . in order to verify that the measured signal is generated in the core , we measured the pure liquid used for equilibration . the signal was at least 100 times lower than that subsequently measured for core itself . we also placed solid teflon rod on the probe for confirmation that porosity is essential for the measurement . the signal was again more than 100 times smaller than for the core . this was confirmation that measured electro - acoustic signal comes from the core pores and is essentially seismo - electric current . after measuring just the equilibrium liquid , the core is submerged in this liquid on the face of the probe centered on the gold sensing electrode . each signal from each core was measured continuously many times in order to confirm that equilibration process has indeed finished . after one side was measured , the core was turned upside down and the opposite side was done to verify the homogeneity of each core . the value for the measured electro - acoustic ( seismo - electric ) signal magnitude are shown in table 4 together with the porosity and pore sizes for these cores as measured independently by mercury intrusion and extrusion instruments as described previously . there is a good correlation between the porosity and electro - acoustic magnitude for the water saturated ohio and orchard cores . the ratio of the cores porosity for these two materials is 3 . 44 , which is close to the ratio of the electro - acoustic signals of 3 . 91 . this agrees with the theoretical prediction because it is the thin and isolated dl case and pore size difference should play little or no role . however , data for the berea core does not agree with this trend as the magnitude of the electro - acoustic signal is much less than for ohio ss core , despite very similar porosity . we think that the anomaly it is explained by the nature of the hydrodynamic flow inside the pores . at high frequency in mhz range the hydrodynamic flow could not completely develop if pore size is larger than “ hydrodynamic viscous depth ” which corresponds to the distance from an oscillating surface over which a shear wave decays by a factor of 1 / e as it passes into the bulk of the liquid . this depth is approximately equal to 1 micron for our 3 mhz ultrasound frequency . this means that the hydrodynamic field is completely developed inside of ohio and orchard cores , but the interior of the berea core pores remain undisturbed . this shows up in the experiment as a lower porosity . this is why the electro - 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