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Effect of soil grain size on the oil migration in the capillary fringe zone

Effect of soil grain size on the oil migration in the capillary fringe zone / Lee Zheng Xian
Permintaan petroleum yang meluas pada hari ini teleh menyebabkan kemunculan masalah terhadap tangki simpanan bawah tanah dan saluran paip minyak. Lama-kelamaan, talian paip dan tangki ini boleh mempunyai terkakis dan menyebabkan kebocoran. LNAPL mempunyai parameter yang kompleks untuk membolehkan LNAPL bergerak melalui media berliang di bawash keadaan tepu, iaitu penekanan zon pinggir kapilari. Oleh itu, ketinggian kapilari atau kedalaman kapilari adalah sangat penting untuk menentukan kerana kedalamannya adalah kedalaman lokasi kerja-kerja pembersihan untuk menjalan. Objektif utama kajian ini adalah untuk menentukan penekanan zon pinggir kapilari apabila dihadapi dengan diesel dalam sampel pasir yang mempunyai bijiran yang berbeza saiz. Ujian Model Satu Dimensi telah dilaksanakan dengan Analisis Imej bagi menentukan zon pinggir kapilari. Dengan perbezaan keterangan warna air biru dan warna diesel merah, imej yang ditangkap kemudian diproses oleh Kod MATLAB untuk penskalaan atas keterangaan itu. Warna tergelap biru dan merah menentukan 100% penepuan air dan diesel dan sampel pasir. Dengan menentukan tahap tertinggi daripada 100% penepuan air, ketinggian kapilari boleh digambarkan keluar. Dalam kajian ini, keputusan menunjukkan bahawa nilai D10 terkecil mempunyai ketinggian kapilari yang tertinggi pasukan pelekat terbesar antara zarah-zarah pasir. Selain itu, diesel dituang ke dalam sampel pasir dan penekanan zon pinggir kapilari telah ditetapkan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan diesel boleh menekan lebih zon pinggir kapilari dalam bijirin kecil saiz sampel pasir. Berdasar kepada Teori Young-Laplace, daya kapilari yang bertindak arah sama seperti daya graviti telah ditolak diesel ke bawah lebih mudah dalam sampel pasir butir saiz kecil kerana mereka menghadapi tekanan kapilari yang lebih besar untuk membentuk diesel plume untuk menembusi ke bawah melalui sampel pasir. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Widespread demand for petroleum had lead potential problems associated with underground storage tanks and oil pipelines. Over time, these pipelines and tanks can have corroded and developed leakages. LNAPL had the complex parameter to allow the LNAPL to move through the porous media under saturation condition, which is depressing the capillary fringe zone. Therefore, the capillary height or the depth to reach the capillary height is very important to be define as the depth is representing the location of the remediation work to be carry out. The main objective of this research is to determine the depression of the capillary fringe when encountered with diesel in different grain size of sand samples. The One-Dimensional Column Test had been carried out with the Image Analysis in order to determine the capillary fringe zone in the column apparatus. With the different colours’ toning, blue water and red diesel, the captured image is then processed by the MATLAB code to scale the toning. The darkest blue and red represented 100% saturation of water and diesel. By determine the highest level of 100% saturation of water, the capillary height can be figured out. In this research, the result showed that the smallest D10 value had the highest capillary height due to its largest adhesive force among sand particles. Besides that, the diesel poured into the sand samples and the depression of capillary fringe zone had been determined. The results showed the diesel can depress more capillary fringe zone in the smaller grain size of sand samples. This can be explained as capillary force is an equilibrium force of adhesive force and gravitational force based on Young-Laplace theory. The capillary force acting same direction as the gravitational force had pushed the diesel downward more easier in smaller grain size sand samples as they had the bigger capillary pressure to form the diesel plume in order to penetrate downward through the sand samples.
Contributor(s):
Lee Zheng Xian - Author
Primary Item Type:
Final Year Project
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875008306
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
petroleum; storage; pipelines
First presented to the public:
6/1/2019
Original Publication Date:
9/26/2019
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Civil Engineering
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 93
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Date Deposited
2019-09-26 15:35:26.764
Date Last Updated
2020-06-23 14:45:53.902
Submitter:
Mohd Jasnizam Mohd Salleh

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