Laboratory investigation on hydraulic conductivity changes in sands due to injection pressure increase |
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| Authors: | Houman Es-haghi Sharabiani Mojtaba Gharavi |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, P.O. Box 16765-163, Tehran, Iran
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| Abstract: | In this research, the hydraulic conductivity changes in uniformly graded sands, due to injection pressure increase, were experimentally evaluated using a cell-type radial model. Conducted tests, simulating variation of media permeability at different depths along a recharge well, were monitoring variations of the samples’ hydraulic conductivity at predetermined three different overburden pressures. The startup low pressure inflow was afterward altered by increasing the injection pressure up to the point at which hydraulic conductivity started to change at each run; we called it the threshold injection pressure. The corresponding hydraulic conductivity at such pressure was measured. As the increased permeability was a function of distance to the simulated recharge, it was deemed too beneficial to develop an equation to enable predicting this new hydraulic conductivity at different distances. Findings indicate that in uniformly graded sands under overburden pressure up to 68.64 kPa, the hydraulic conductivity in the threshold injection pressure—compared to its primary amount up to 45 cm from borehole wall—show a remarkable growth. However, this growth rate for greater distances up to 60 cm is negligible. Furthermore, in the threshold injection pressure, the hydraulic conductivity seems not to be time dependent. But, in constant injection pressures above the threshold injection pressure, the hydraulic conductivity shows some sort of time dependency. |
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