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Methane bubbles in fine-grained sediments have been shown to grow initially by elastic expansion and fracture. A previous growth model assumed quasi-steady state diffusion in which the methane porewater concentration quickly adjusted to changes in bubble geometry [Gardiner B. S, Boudreau B. P and Johnson B. D. (2003a) Growth of disk-shaped bubbles in sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67 (8), 1485-1494]. Here, we present a finite-element model that solves the transient form of the reaction-diffusion equation, and the coupled linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). In so doing we also employ a new theory for the post-fracture bubble sizes, based upon the full principles of LEFM.Our findings indicate that the quasi-steady state assumption is flawed due to violation of conservation of mass during fracture events. When the new model is applied to sediment conditions found at Cape Lookout Bight, NC, USA, it is found that bubbles grow somewhat faster than previously thought. A reference bubble of 0.5 cm3 will form in about 6 days, 2.5 days quicker than the old model predicted. Moreover, typical bubbles of 0.04 cm3 for this site can grow in as little as a day and a half. We examined the sensitively of the finite-element model to the various parameters in order to gain an understanding of how bubbles may behave under different sediment conditions. The influence of tides on bubble growth, through the process of rectified diffusion, was also examined and it was found that this had little influence upon growth. 相似文献
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爆炸式喷发过程中，火山碎屑物气孔记录了挥发分出溶、膨胀和合并等信息，其大小、形态、数量密度、空间分布等局域特征是推断火山喷发动力条件的重要参考。文章基于天池火山三期喷发(50 000年前大喷发的黄色浮岩、千年大喷发的灰白色浮岩和1668年八卦庙期喷发的黑色浮岩)野外地质工作，以非线性火山喷发动力学为指导，开展了火山通道内气泡生长的流体动力学研究，揭示出岩浆流体黏性力和界面张力的共同作用对于岩浆减压和气泡生长过程的约束。在浮岩气孔结构的定量化分析基础上，进一步研究了天池火山三期喷发的浮岩气孔参数，通过气泡生长流体动力学方程得到了千年大喷发灰白色浮岩毛细管数Ca值为253， 明显高于50 000年前大喷发黄色浮岩(Ca值为94)和八卦庙期喷发黑色浮岩(Ca值为111)，表明了千年大喷发曾发生过明显的成分变化，推测可能与幔源基性岩浆注入有关；而50 000年前大喷发黄色浮岩气孔不规则形态参数(1-Ω)值为0.098，大于后两期喷发(分别为0.052和0.064)，可能意味着天池火山系统动力学平衡的弛豫周期变小或浮岩气泡生长受动力学、流变学改造过程减弱，这可为进一步研究天池火山活动规律提供参考。三期浮岩毛细管数Ca量级为102，气孔不规则形态参数(1-Ω)量级为10-1，从动力学上首次证实了天池火山属于普林尼型或超普林尼型喷发。 相似文献
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Conventional and non-conventional flotation for mineral processing and for water (and wastewaters) treatment and reuse (or recycling) is rapidly broadening their applications in the mining field. Conventional flotation assisted with microbubbles (30–100 μm) finds application in the recovery of fine mineral particles (< 13 μm) and flotation with these fine bubbles is being used as a solid/liquid separation to remove pollutants. The injection of small bubbles to conventional coarse bubbles flotation cells usually leads to general improvements of the separation parameters, especially for the ultrafines (< 5 μm) ore particles. Results obtained are believed to occur by enhancing the capture of particles by bubbles, one of the main drawbacks in fine ore flotation. It is believed that by decreasing the bubble size distribution (through the injection of small bubbles), increases the bubble surface flux and the fines capture. DAF or dissolved air flotation with microbubbles, treating water, wastewater and domestic sewage is known for a number of years and is now gradually entering in the mining environmental area. This technology offers, in most cases, advantages over settling, filtration, precipitation, or adsorption onto natural and synthetic adsorbents. The targets are the removal of oils (emulsified or not), ions (heavy metals and anions) and the reuse or recirculation of the process waters. Advantages include better treated water quality, rapid start up, high rate operation, and a thicker sludge. New applications are found in the mining vehicles washing water treatment and reuse, AMD (acid mining drainage) neutralization and high rate solids/water separation by flotation with microbubbles. This work reviews some recent applications of the use of microbubbles to assist the recovery of very small mineral particles and for the removal of pollutants from mining wastewaters. Emphasis is given to the design features of innovative devices showing the potential of conventional and unconventional DAF flotation. 相似文献
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Transport of trace metals by natural organic matter (NOM) is potentially an important vector for trace metal incorporation in secondary cave precipitates [speleothems], yet little is known about the size distribution, speciation and metal binding properties of NOM in cave dripwaters. A hyperalkaline cave environment (ca. pH 11) was selected to provide information on colloid-metal interactions in cave waters, and to address the lack of high-pH data in natural systems in general. Colloidal (1 nm-1 μm) NOM in hyperalkaline cave dripwater from Poole’s Cavern, UK, was characterised by flow field-flow fractionation (FlFFF) coupled to UV and fluorescence detectors and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) coupled to X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy (X-EDS); trace-metal lability was examined by diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT). Colloidal aggregates and small particulates (>1 μm) imaged by TEM were morphologically heterogeneous with qualitative elemental compositions (X-EDS spectra; n = 41) consistent with NOM aggregates containing aluminosilicates, and iron and titanium oxides. Globular organic colloids, with diameters between ca. 1 and 10 nm were the most numerous colloidal class and exhibited high UV-absorbance (254 nm) and fluorescence intensity (320:400 nm excitation: emission) in optical regions characteristic of humic-like compounds. Metal binding with humic substances was modelled using the WHAM 6.1 (model VI) and visual MINTEQ 3.0 (NICA-Donnan) speciation codes. At pH 11, both models predicted dominant humic binding of Cu (ca. 100%) and minimal binding of Ni and Co (ca. <1-7%). A DGT depletion experiment (7 days duration) with the hyperalkaline dripwater showed that the available proportion of each metal was much lower than its total concentration. Metal availability for DGT in the initial stages (24 h) was consistent with weaker binding of alkaline earth metals by humic substances (Ba > Sr > V > Cu > Ni > Co), compared to the transition metals. Integrated over the entire experiment, the DGT-available proportion of transition metals (Ni > Cu & V >> Co) differed greatly from the expected hierarchy from WHAM and MINTEQ, indicating unusually strong complexation of Co. Total metal concentrations of Cu, Ni, and Co in raw and filtered PE1 dripwater samples (n = 53) were well correlated (Cu vs. Ni, R2 = 0.8; Cu vs. Co, R2 = 0.5) and were strongly reduced (> ca. 50%) by filtration at ca. 100 and 1 nm, indicating a common colloidal association. Our results demonstrate that soil-derived colloids reach speleothems, despite transport through a karst zone with potential for adsorption, and that NOM is a dominant complexant of trace metals in high pH speleothem-forming groundwaters. 相似文献
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Don R. Baker Phyllis Lang Jean-Francois Bergevin Liping Bai 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2006,70(7):1821-1838
Bubble growth experiments were performed in a piston-cylinder by hydrating albite melt with ∼11 wt.% H2O at 550 MPa followed by rapid decompression at 1 MPa s−1 to pressures of 450 or 400 MPa. At these conditions the melt was supersaturated with ∼0.5 or ∼1.5 wt.% H2O, respectively, which caused rapid exsolution and bubble growth. Results at 1200 °C demonstrate that portions of the initial cumulative bubble-area distributions may be characterized by a power law with an exponent near 1, but they rapidly evolve to exponential distributions and approach a unimodal distribution after 32 h of growth. This evolution occurs by the growth of larger bubbles at the expense of smaller ones. The growth rate of the average bubble radius in these experiments is described by a power law whose exponent is 0.35, close to the theoretical exponent of 1/3 for phase growth in which coalescence is dominated by Ostwald ripening of the bubbles. Over the range of pressures and water contents investigated at 1200 °C, the bubble-size distributions and growth rate are not significantly affected by changes in the amount of exsolved water or by splitting the decompression path into two steps. Similar decompression experiments at 800 °C are dominated by smaller bubbles than in the 1200 °C experiments and also demonstrate exponential cumulative size distributions, but consistently contain a small fraction of larger bubbles. The growth rate of these bubble radii cannot be fit with a power law, but a logarithmic dependence of the bubble radii on time is possible, suggesting a difference in the growth mechanisms at low and high temperatures. This difference is attributed to the orders of magnitude changes in melt viscosity and water diffusion in the melt as the temperature varies from 800 to 1200 °C. At 1200 °C the transport properties of albite melt resemble those of natural basaltic melts whereas at 800 °C the properties are similar to those of andesitic to dacitic melts. The decompression rate used in this study exceeds natural rates by one to two orders of magnitude. Thus, these results indicate that natural mafic-to-intermediate magmas supersaturated with only a small excess of water should easily nucleate bubbles during ascent and that bubble growth in mafic magmas will proceed much more rapidly than in andesitic to dacitic magmas. Intermediate composition magmas also may be capable of forming bimodal bubble-size distributions even in the case when only one nucleation event occurred. The rapid evolution of the bubble-size distribution from a power law to an exponential may be useful in constraining the time duration between bubble nucleation and the quenching of natural samples. 相似文献
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Porewater data from vent sites of the northeastern shelf off Sakhalin Island, Sea of Okhotsk, exhibit bottom-water concentrations down to a sediment depth of up to 300 cm. Below this depth, solute concentrations rapidly change due to methanogenesis and anaerobic methane oxidation (AMO). The profile shapes suggest an irrigation-like process that mixes on a meter scale. At these sites active gas emanation into the overlying water column and near-surface gas hydrates are commonly observed. We propose that methane gas bubbles rise through the soft surface sediments and cause mixing of the porewater.Mathematically, the bubble-induced irrigation can be described by eddy diffusion enhancing the diffusive transport of solutes by several orders of magnitude. A 3-D numerical transport-reaction model was developed to investigate the parameters defining the mixing process, such as bubble rise velocity, tube size, tube distribution in the sediment, and ebullition frequency.Model consistency with the field data requires eddy diffusivities ?1 × 105 cm2/a, tube densities of >4 tubes/m2 (equivalent to a tube spacing of <40 cm), active gas seepage for more than a few weeks or months, and moderate to low diagenetic reaction rates of solutes. The corresponding methane gas fluxes that are predicted from the results of the model realizations range from 1 × 103-5 × 105 L/(m2 a). Due to bubble mixing, solute fluxes in these sediments are increased by a factor of 3 and the maximum AMO rate by a factor of 7. 相似文献
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The comparative behaviour of Ni, Cu and Zn in the system “mine tailings–ground water–plants” has been investigated at the Ni–Cu mine site operated by INCO Ltd. Thompson Operations, Thompson, Manitoba. Oxidation of sulphide minerals causes the release of metals from exposed tailings containing Ni ∼2000 ppm, Cu ∼150 ppm and Zn ∼100 ppm to the ground water, which contains 350 mg/L Ni, 0.007 mg/L Cu, and 1.6 mg/L Zn. The metal concentration in the ground water is affected by the relative proportions of sulfide minerals, the rate of oxidation of sulphide minerals (Ni-bearing pyrrhotite > sphalerite > chalcopyrite), and the affinity of the metals for secondary Fe-phases (Ni > Zn > Cu). 相似文献
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A.R. Laplante J.M. Toguri H.W. Smith 《International Journal of Mineral Processing》1983,11(3):203-219
Bubble size distributions and flotation rates were determined as a function of air flow rate and frother concentration using a specially designed batch flotation cell. This cell permitted the unambiguous determination of the flotation rate from the slurry to the froth.Flotation rate constants were determined for different size classes of silica and galena. The flotation rate constants increased to a maximum and then decreased as air flow rate was increased. This maximum was predicted by a model which considered the effect of bubble size on both the total bubble surface area and the bubble-particle collision efficiency. This work shows that collision efficiency effects, shown to exist in single-bubble/single-particle systems, are also present in flotation systems where many bubbles and particles interact.A second model for hindered flotation is proposed which assumes that the particle-capturing bubble surface differs from the particle-retaining surface. This model predicts a sharp transition from hindered to free flotation. Experimental results are presented which agree well with those derived from the model. 相似文献
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Investigation on foaming properties of some organics for oily bubble bitumen flotation 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Studies have shown that using organic coated bubbles (“oily” bubbles) could increase bitumen recovery rate in flotation. One way to coat bubbles is that used in the air-assisted solvent extraction process where solvent foam is formed and injected through a capillary to release solvent coated bubbles in a controlled manner into the aqueous system. To investigate adapting this approach, the foaming properties of some organics (Hexane, Heptane, Hexadecane, Petroleum Ether, Toluene, Benzene and Kerosene and their binary mixtures) of potential interest in oily bubble bitumen flotation were investigated. Silicone oil was found to be a good foaming agent in some cases. Bubble stability and film thickness experiments were carried out to help select candidate organics. Surface tension and dynamic viscosity measurements were conducted to examine the mechanism of foaming. Attachment studies showed that droplets of the selected organics readily attached to a bitumen surface compared to air bubbles. From a combination of criteria, 25:75 Hexadecane/Heptane appears to be a promising candidate. 相似文献