Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable diffic...Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable difficulties to the investigation of the spatial structure and physical properties of foams, and the situation becomes even more com-plicated as the fluid flows. To solve these problems, a discrete model of two-dimensional liquid foams on the bubble scale is proposed in this work. The bubble surface is represented with finite number of nodes, and the liquid within Plateau borders is discretized into lattice particles. The gas in bubbles is treated as ideal gas at constant temperatures. This model is tested by choosing an arbitrary shape bubble as the initial condition. This then automatically evolves into a cir-cular shape, which indicates that the surface energy minimum routine is obeyed without calling external controlling con-ditions. Without inserting liquid particle among the bubble channels, periodic ordered and disordered dry foams are both simulated, and the fine foam structures are developed. Wet foams are also simulated by inserting fluid among bubble channels. The calculated coordination number, as a function of liquid fractions, agrees well with the standard values.展开更多
Stimulus-responsive liquid foams have gained much attention for use in various industrial applications.However,it remains challenging to construct such systems with integrated functionality of easy preparation,high st...Stimulus-responsive liquid foams have gained much attention for use in various industrial applications.However,it remains challenging to construct such systems with integrated functionality of easy preparation,high stability,high foaming ability,and rapid on-demand degradation.Herein,by combining the Hofmeister effect and nanotechnology,a promising ultrastable and photoresponsive liquid foam was prepared that had a lifetime of several months and could be destroyed on demand in a few minutes.Specifically,the system was prepared by simply mixing a gelatine solution containing black phosphorus nanosheets(BPNs)and kosmotropic anions in the Hofmeister series with air in one step using only two syringes,and there were no chemical modifications or crosslinking agents required.The kosmotropic anions induced stronger hydrophobic interactions,bundling within molecular chains,and blockage of foam drainage channels,which significantly improved the foaming ability and the lifetime and mechanical properties of the foam.Moreover,rational structure design realized a promising on-demand degradation mechanism via a cascading“light trigger-heat generation-Marangoni flow generation”process occurring on the bubble surfaces.On this basis,the BPNs converted light into thermal energy,which induced Marangoni flow driven by surface tension gradients along the gas-liquid interfaces,and the bubble film ruptured within seconds upon light illumination.The designed stimulus-response systems combined stable,fast and repeatable processes without sacrificing the foaming abilities,thus providing a general way to control the stabilities of foams,bubbles and films.展开更多
Liquid foam is a dense packing of gas bubbles in a small amount of liquid containing surfactants or other surface-active macromolecules, which is one of the highly organized materials and possesses hallmark rheologica...Liquid foam is a dense packing of gas bubbles in a small amount of liquid containing surfactants or other surface-active macromolecules, which is one of the highly organized materials and possesses hallmark rheological behaviour of soft matters. Forced foam drainage is the flow of constantly inputted liquid through the network of interstitial channels between bubbles under actions of gravity and capil-larity. This process involves two mechanisms: minimal viscous flow dissipation of liquid and minimal surface energy of bubbles. For constant surfactant solution, viscous dissipation usually varies with gravity. This work reports simulations of 2D forced foam drainage with narrow input in a Hele-Shaw cell under 8 different gravities, g, ranging from 9.8 to 0 ms?2. The spread of liquid both vertical due to gravity action, and horizontal due to capillary suction, is recorded over time. Positions of drainage wave fronts in both directions with time are found to be well described in the power law form, and the exponents are 0.536+5.29×10-3g and 0.479?7.27×10-3g, respectively, while the sum is close to a constant of 1.015 which is independent of gravity. For g=9.8 ms-2, the calculated exponents are in good agreement with experimental results by Hutzler et al. and Wang.展开更多
The recovery of heavy oil by water flooding is 10% lower than that of conventional crude oil, so enhanced oil recovery （EOR） is of great significance for heavy oil. In this paper, foam flooding with a gas-liquid rat...The recovery of heavy oil by water flooding is 10% lower than that of conventional crude oil, so enhanced oil recovery （EOR） is of great significance for heavy oil. In this paper, foam flooding with a gas-liquid ratio （GLR） of 0.2：1 for the Zhuangxi heavy oil （325 mPa.s at 55 ℃） was performed on cores, sand packs and plate model. In sand pack tests, polymer enhanced foam flooding increased oil recovery by 39.8%, which was 11.4% higher than that for alkali/surfactant/polymer （ASP） flooding under the same conditions. Polymer enhanced foam flooding in plate models shows that the low GLR foam flooding increased oil recovery by about 30%, even when the extended water flooding was finished at 90% water cut. Moreover, it was discovered by microscopy that foam was more stable in heavy oil than in light oil. These results confirm that low GLR foam flooding is a promising technology for displacing conventional heavy oil.展开更多
The open-cell Al foam core sandwiches（AFCSs） were successfully fabricated by using a specially designed Zn-Al-Cu based filler alloy via vibration aided liquid phase bonding method.The effects of the vibration on the...The open-cell Al foam core sandwiches（AFCSs） were successfully fabricated by using a specially designed Zn-Al-Cu based filler alloy via vibration aided liquid phase bonding method.The effects of the vibration on the bonding seam were investigated and the bonding strength between Al foam core and solid Al alloy face sheet was tested by shearing tests.The results show that vibration can significantly improve the quality of the bonding and the shearing strength of the bonding seam,which implies that this joining method has a good potential in practical applications.展开更多
The mold pressing process was applied to investigate the formability of closed-cell aluminum foam in solid–liquid–gas coexisting state.Results show that the shape formation of closed-cell aluminum foam in the solid...The mold pressing process was applied to investigate the formability of closed-cell aluminum foam in solid–liquid–gas coexisting state.Results show that the shape formation of closed-cell aluminum foam in the solid–liquid–gas coexisting state was realized through cell wall deformation and cell movement caused by primary α-Al grains that slid,rotated,deformed,and ripened within cell walls.During formation,characteristic parameters of closed-cell aluminum foam were almost unchanged.Under proper forming conditions,shaped products of closed-cell aluminum foam could be fabricated through mold pressing.展开更多
The results of the study of raw mix preparation and foam glass-ceramics production using diatomite as a raw material were presented in the following article. A mixture of diatomite and 40% NaOH solution was subjected ...The results of the study of raw mix preparation and foam glass-ceramics production using diatomite as a raw material were presented in the following article. A mixture of diatomite and 40% NaOH solution was subjected to heating at a constant temperature of 775 ℃. Samples of foam glass-ceramic from diatomite with an average density of 290-580 kg/m^3, compressive strength of 1.7-7.8 MPa and thermal conductivity of 0.08-0.14 W/（m·K） were obtained. The investigations have shown that the hydrothermal pretreatment of mixture at the temperature of 90 ℃ may lead to the acceleration of the leaching of amorphous SiO_2 from diatomite. It was discovered that the resulting soluble alkali silicates promote the process of foaming during heating and reduce the average density of the obtained samples. The optimal duration of the leaching process was estimated to be 30 minutes, which corresponds to the yield of SiO_2 equal to 42.5% by the weight of dry diatomite.展开更多
A sloshing mitigation concept taking advantage of floating layers of solid foam elements is proposed in the present study. Physical experiments are carried out in a liquid tank to investigate the hydrodynamic mechanis...A sloshing mitigation concept taking advantage of floating layers of solid foam elements is proposed in the present study. Physical experiments are carried out in a liquid tank to investigate the hydrodynamic mechanism of this concept. Effects of the foam-layer thickness, excitation amplitude, and excitation frequency on the sloshing properties are analyzed in detail. It is found that the floating layers of solid foam elements do not evidently affect the fundamental natural sloshing frequency of the liquid tank evidently among the considered cases. At the resonant condition, the maximum wave height and dynamic pressure are greatly reduced as the foam-layer thickness increases. Higher-order pressure components on the tank side gradually vanish with the increase of the foam-layer thickness. Cases with different excitation amplitudes are also analyzed. The phenomenon is observed when the wave breaking in the tank can be suppressed by solid foam elements.展开更多
The effects of copper content on the microstructural and mechanical properties of steel foams are investigated. Spherical urea granules, used as a water-leachable space holder, were coated with a mixture of iron, ultr...The effects of copper content on the microstructural and mechanical properties of steel foams are investigated. Spherical urea granules, used as a water-leachable space holder, were coated with a mixture of iron, ultrafine carbon, and different amounts of copper powders. After the mixture was compacted and the space holder was removed by leaching, a sintering process was performed under an atmosphere of thermally dissociated ammonia. Microstructural evaluations of the cell walls were carried out using optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy in conjunction with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. In addition, compression tests were conducted to investigate the mechanical properties of the manufactured steel foams. The results showed that the total porosity decreases from 77.2% to 71.9% with increasing copper content in the steel foams. In the foams' microstructure, copper islands are mostly distributed in pearlite and intergranular carbide phases are formed in the grain boundaries. When the copper content was increased from 0 to 4 wt%, the elastic modulus, plateau stress, fracture stress, and fracture strain of manufactured steel foams improved 4.5, 6, 6.4, and 2.5 times, respectively.展开更多
The velocity field in a single Plateau border（PB） of the aluminum foam in the drainage process is studied using a mathematical model for the flow inside a microchannel.We show that the liquid/gas interface mobility ...The velocity field in a single Plateau border（PB） of the aluminum foam in the drainage process is studied using a mathematical model for the flow inside a microchannel.We show that the liquid/gas interface mobility characterized by the Newtonian surface viscosity has a substantial effect on the velocity inside the single PB.With the same liquid/gas interfacial mobility and the same radius of the curvature,the maximum velocity inside an exterior PB is about 6～8 times as large as that inside an interior PB.We also find a critical value of the interfacial mobility in the interior PB.For the values greater and less than this critical value,the effects of the film thickness on the velocity in the PB show opposite tendencies.Based on the multiscale methodology,with the coupling between the microscale and the macroscale and the results obtained from the microscopical model,a simplified macroscopical drainage model is presented for the aluminum foams.The comparisons among the computational results obtained from the present model,the experimental data quoted in the literature,and the results of the classical drainage equation show a reasonable agreement.The computational results reveal that the liquid holdup of the foams is strongly dependent on the value of the mobility and the bubble radius.展开更多
Taking the pilot test area of polymer enhanced foam flooding in Y oilfield as the prototype, a numerical core model was established, and the polymer enhanced foam formulation system was optimized by analyzing the resi...Taking the pilot test area of polymer enhanced foam flooding in Y oilfield as the prototype, a numerical core model was established, and the polymer enhanced foam formulation system was optimized by analyzing the resistance factor and the change rule of oil recovery of different formulation systems. Research shows that the higher the polymer concentration, the greater the resistance factor, and the more obvious the sealing effect formed in the formation. The concentration of surfactant has a greater impact on the resistance factor. With the increase of surfactant concentration, the resistance factor increases significantly, and the plugging effect of foam agent on core is significantly enhanced. With the increase of gas-liquid ratio, the resistance factor first increases and then decreases. When the gas-liquid ratio is 1:1, the resistance is the largest, and the foam agent has the strongest plugging effect on the core. The optimal formula system of polymer enhanced foam flooding in Y oilfield is: polymer concentration is 1200 mg/L, surfactant concentration is 0.25 wt%, gas-liquid ratio is 1:1.展开更多
文摘Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable difficulties to the investigation of the spatial structure and physical properties of foams, and the situation becomes even more com-plicated as the fluid flows. To solve these problems, a discrete model of two-dimensional liquid foams on the bubble scale is proposed in this work. The bubble surface is represented with finite number of nodes, and the liquid within Plateau borders is discretized into lattice particles. The gas in bubbles is treated as ideal gas at constant temperatures. This model is tested by choosing an arbitrary shape bubble as the initial condition. This then automatically evolves into a cir-cular shape, which indicates that the surface energy minimum routine is obeyed without calling external controlling con-ditions. Without inserting liquid particle among the bubble channels, periodic ordered and disordered dry foams are both simulated, and the fine foam structures are developed. Wet foams are also simulated by inserting fluid among bubble channels. The calculated coordination number, as a function of liquid fractions, agrees well with the standard values.
基金supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(No.GZB-20230714)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project(No.2023M743387).
文摘Stimulus-responsive liquid foams have gained much attention for use in various industrial applications.However,it remains challenging to construct such systems with integrated functionality of easy preparation,high stability,high foaming ability,and rapid on-demand degradation.Herein,by combining the Hofmeister effect and nanotechnology,a promising ultrastable and photoresponsive liquid foam was prepared that had a lifetime of several months and could be destroyed on demand in a few minutes.Specifically,the system was prepared by simply mixing a gelatine solution containing black phosphorus nanosheets(BPNs)and kosmotropic anions in the Hofmeister series with air in one step using only two syringes,and there were no chemical modifications or crosslinking agents required.The kosmotropic anions induced stronger hydrophobic interactions,bundling within molecular chains,and blockage of foam drainage channels,which significantly improved the foaming ability and the lifetime and mechanical properties of the foam.Moreover,rational structure design realized a promising on-demand degradation mechanism via a cascading“light trigger-heat generation-Marangoni flow generation”process occurring on the bubble surfaces.On this basis,the BPNs converted light into thermal energy,which induced Marangoni flow driven by surface tension gradients along the gas-liquid interfaces,and the bubble film ruptured within seconds upon light illumination.The designed stimulus-response systems combined stable,fast and repeatable processes without sacrificing the foaming abilities,thus providing a general way to control the stabilities of foams,bubbles and films.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20336040)the Scientific Research Foundation of the State Human Resource Ministry for Returned Chinese Scholars
文摘Liquid foam is a dense packing of gas bubbles in a small amount of liquid containing surfactants or other surface-active macromolecules, which is one of the highly organized materials and possesses hallmark rheological behaviour of soft matters. Forced foam drainage is the flow of constantly inputted liquid through the network of interstitial channels between bubbles under actions of gravity and capil-larity. This process involves two mechanisms: minimal viscous flow dissipation of liquid and minimal surface energy of bubbles. For constant surfactant solution, viscous dissipation usually varies with gravity. This work reports simulations of 2D forced foam drainage with narrow input in a Hele-Shaw cell under 8 different gravities, g, ranging from 9.8 to 0 ms?2. The spread of liquid both vertical due to gravity action, and horizontal due to capillary suction, is recorded over time. Positions of drainage wave fronts in both directions with time are found to be well described in the power law form, and the exponents are 0.536+5.29×10-3g and 0.479?7.27×10-3g, respectively, while the sum is close to a constant of 1.015 which is independent of gravity. For g=9.8 ms-2, the calculated exponents are in good agreement with experimental results by Hutzler et al. and Wang.
基金support from the Innovation Team Program and New Century Excellent Talents Awards Program,the Ministry of Education of ChinaFok Ying Tung Education Foundation
文摘The recovery of heavy oil by water flooding is 10% lower than that of conventional crude oil, so enhanced oil recovery （EOR） is of great significance for heavy oil. In this paper, foam flooding with a gas-liquid ratio （GLR） of 0.2：1 for the Zhuangxi heavy oil （325 mPa.s at 55 ℃） was performed on cores, sand packs and plate model. In sand pack tests, polymer enhanced foam flooding increased oil recovery by 39.8%, which was 11.4% higher than that for alkali/surfactant/polymer （ASP） flooding under the same conditions. Polymer enhanced foam flooding in plate models shows that the low GLR foam flooding increased oil recovery by about 30%, even when the extended water flooding was finished at 90% water cut. Moreover, it was discovered by microscopy that foam was more stable in heavy oil than in light oil. These results confirm that low GLR foam flooding is a promising technology for displacing conventional heavy oil.
基金support provided by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (No. 2006CB601201)supports from the Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 200802941010)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hohai University (No. 2008428011)the Scientific Research Startup Fund of Hohai University(No. 2084140801109)
文摘The open-cell Al foam core sandwiches（AFCSs） were successfully fabricated by using a specially designed Zn-Al-Cu based filler alloy via vibration aided liquid phase bonding method.The effects of the vibration on the bonding seam were investigated and the bonding strength between Al foam core and solid Al alloy face sheet was tested by shearing tests.The results show that vibration can significantly improve the quality of the bonding and the shearing strength of the bonding seam,which implies that this joining method has a good potential in practical applications.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (No.51371104)
文摘The mold pressing process was applied to investigate the formability of closed-cell aluminum foam in solid–liquid–gas coexisting state.Results show that the shape formation of closed-cell aluminum foam in the solid–liquid–gas coexisting state was realized through cell wall deformation and cell movement caused by primary α-Al grains that slid,rotated,deformed,and ripened within cell walls.During formation,characteristic parameters of closed-cell aluminum foam were almost unchanged.Under proper forming conditions,shaped products of closed-cell aluminum foam could be fabricated through mold pressing.
文摘The results of the study of raw mix preparation and foam glass-ceramics production using diatomite as a raw material were presented in the following article. A mixture of diatomite and 40% NaOH solution was subjected to heating at a constant temperature of 775 ℃. Samples of foam glass-ceramic from diatomite with an average density of 290-580 kg/m^3, compressive strength of 1.7-7.8 MPa and thermal conductivity of 0.08-0.14 W/（m·K） were obtained. The investigations have shown that the hydrothermal pretreatment of mixture at the temperature of 90 ℃ may lead to the acceleration of the leaching of amorphous SiO_2 from diatomite. It was discovered that the resulting soluble alkali silicates promote the process of foaming during heating and reduce the average density of the obtained samples. The optimal duration of the leaching process was estimated to be 30 minutes, which corresponds to the yield of SiO_2 equal to 42.5% by the weight of dry diatomite.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51709038,51679036 and51739010)the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2018M630289)the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering(Grant No.2016490111)
文摘A sloshing mitigation concept taking advantage of floating layers of solid foam elements is proposed in the present study. Physical experiments are carried out in a liquid tank to investigate the hydrodynamic mechanism of this concept. Effects of the foam-layer thickness, excitation amplitude, and excitation frequency on the sloshing properties are analyzed in detail. It is found that the floating layers of solid foam elements do not evidently affect the fundamental natural sloshing frequency of the liquid tank evidently among the considered cases. At the resonant condition, the maximum wave height and dynamic pressure are greatly reduced as the foam-layer thickness increases. Higher-order pressure components on the tank side gradually vanish with the increase of the foam-layer thickness. Cases with different excitation amplitudes are also analyzed. The phenomenon is observed when the wave breaking in the tank can be suppressed by solid foam elements.
文摘The effects of copper content on the microstructural and mechanical properties of steel foams are investigated. Spherical urea granules, used as a water-leachable space holder, were coated with a mixture of iron, ultrafine carbon, and different amounts of copper powders. After the mixture was compacted and the space holder was removed by leaching, a sintering process was performed under an atmosphere of thermally dissociated ammonia. Microstructural evaluations of the cell walls were carried out using optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy in conjunction with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. In addition, compression tests were conducted to investigate the mechanical properties of the manufactured steel foams. The results showed that the total porosity decreases from 77.2% to 71.9% with increasing copper content in the steel foams. In the foams' microstructure, copper islands are mostly distributed in pearlite and intergranular carbide phases are formed in the grain boundaries. When the copper content was increased from 0 to 4 wt%, the elastic modulus, plateau stress, fracture stress, and fracture strain of manufactured steel foams improved 4.5, 6, 6.4, and 2.5 times, respectively.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50876017)
文摘The velocity field in a single Plateau border（PB） of the aluminum foam in the drainage process is studied using a mathematical model for the flow inside a microchannel.We show that the liquid/gas interface mobility characterized by the Newtonian surface viscosity has a substantial effect on the velocity inside the single PB.With the same liquid/gas interfacial mobility and the same radius of the curvature,the maximum velocity inside an exterior PB is about 6～8 times as large as that inside an interior PB.We also find a critical value of the interfacial mobility in the interior PB.For the values greater and less than this critical value,the effects of the film thickness on the velocity in the PB show opposite tendencies.Based on the multiscale methodology,with the coupling between the microscale and the macroscale and the results obtained from the microscopical model,a simplified macroscopical drainage model is presented for the aluminum foams.The comparisons among the computational results obtained from the present model,the experimental data quoted in the literature,and the results of the classical drainage equation show a reasonable agreement.The computational results reveal that the liquid holdup of the foams is strongly dependent on the value of the mobility and the bubble radius.
文摘Taking the pilot test area of polymer enhanced foam flooding in Y oilfield as the prototype, a numerical core model was established, and the polymer enhanced foam formulation system was optimized by analyzing the resistance factor and the change rule of oil recovery of different formulation systems. Research shows that the higher the polymer concentration, the greater the resistance factor, and the more obvious the sealing effect formed in the formation. The concentration of surfactant has a greater impact on the resistance factor. With the increase of surfactant concentration, the resistance factor increases significantly, and the plugging effect of foam agent on core is significantly enhanced. With the increase of gas-liquid ratio, the resistance factor first increases and then decreases. When the gas-liquid ratio is 1:1, the resistance is the largest, and the foam agent has the strongest plugging effect on the core. The optimal formula system of polymer enhanced foam flooding in Y oilfield is: polymer concentration is 1200 mg/L, surfactant concentration is 0.25 wt%, gas-liquid ratio is 1:1.
