self-potential and induced polarization: geophysical tools
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André Revil (1) and Susan S. Hubbard (2) (1) Colorado School of Mines (2) L. Berkeley National Laboratory
Self-potential and induced polarization: Geophysical tools to map flowpaths and monitor contaminant plumes
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Rocks have a complex texture and chemistry, Geophysics is sensitive to both
New science: Mechanistic understanding of the geophysical signals
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Medical Science (electro-encephalography)
Self-potential
Geophysics (self-potential)
Network of non-polarizing electrodes connected to a voltmeter
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Generalized constitutive equations
Chemical potential
Take-home message: any king of non-equilibrum disturbance generate an EM signal
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Self-potential associated with a salt plume
Ag/AgCl smart electrodes
Multichannel system (256 ch., 7 kHz)
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Time-lapse self-potential signals
Snap shots of the electrical potential distribution over time
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Modeling Buoyancy driven saline plume
Darcy equation
Continuity equation for the mass of the fluid Continuity equation for the mass of the solute
State equations
Hydrodynamic dispersion tensor (Fickian model)
Mass density
Viscosity
Generalized Fick law
Fickian model (change with scale?)
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Finite element simulation of the forward problem (comsol multiphysics) Salinity Self-potential field
Source term
Continuity equation
Constitutive equation
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Self-potential time lapse tomography (deterministic)
Martinez-Pagan, Revil et al., in press in Geophysics
Data misfit Regularization over time
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Stochastic inversion (AMA) of the permeability and dispersivities (15,000 realizations)
(the vertical bar represents the measured horizontal permeability)
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Spectral induced polarization (complex conductivity)
Can be used as a geophysical tomographic technique (see Williams et al. Work at Rifle)
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Excess Surface (in Siemens)
Similar values for clays and silica
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The spectral polarization of a granular material
Complex conductivity
Magnitude
Phase
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Polarization of a single grain
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Polarization of a single grain
Upscaling using DEM theory for instance
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Application to the data of Tong et al. (2006)
Sanstones
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Presence of a second fluid phase (immiscible, non wetting)
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Comparison with the prediction from the model
Model prediction
Experimental data
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Influence of a change in the composition of the aqueous phase
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Change in the composition of the aqueous phase over time
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No change in resistivity
Change in the phase
Modeling with PHREEQC
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Complexation model (with electrostatics)
Induced polarization is truly a geophysical spectroscopic tool sensitive to chemistry
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The effects of biofilms
Pictures: courtesy of Yuri Gorbi
Pili = 100 S/m (electron tranfer possibly by tunneling effect between the hemes packed in the pili)
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At the interface between sharp redox gradient
Electronic contribution to EC through biofilms
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Self-potential anomaly associated with an oil spill
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From Atekwana et al. (2004)
Responsible for a conductivity increase at the water table
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In few weeks: Application to Oak Ridge
Cooperation with David Watson
Imaging the preferential flow-paths
Model the transport of contaminants (effect of recharge…)
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Conclusions
Get a catalog of the effect of contaminants/bacteria upon induced polarization
Develop the inverse problem (speciation using SIP)
Developing joint inversion tools for map permeability change / chemistry amendments
Use of chemical tracers to follow them using geophysical techniques
Use of electromigration / electroosmosis to bring specific chemical components
(redox active) to specific targets non-intrusively
Can we act non-intrusivey on bacteria with electrical field?
Doing all the couplings in TOUGHREACT (Nic Spycher & Magnus Skold)
We thank the DOE for Financial support
Scientific papers can be downloaded at http://www.andre-revil.com