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Professor Juan de Dios Ortzar currently works for the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad, Chile. He has over 30 years experience as an academic and advisor on transport modelling and social project evaluation. He has fostered the development of discrete choice models and its application to determining willingness-to-pay for reducing transport externalities.
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Flow-driven transport of soft particles in porous media is ubiquitous in many natural and engineering processes, such as the gel treatment for enhanced oil recovery. In many of these processes, injected deformable particles block the pores and thus increase the overall pressure drop and reduce the permeability of the particle-resided region. The change of macroscopic properties (e.g., pressure drop and permeability) is an important indicator of the system performance, yet sometimes impossible to be measured. Therefore, it is desirable to correlate these macroscopic properties with the measurable or controllable properties. In this work, we study flow-driven transport of soft particles in porous media using a generalized capillary bundle model. By modeling a homogeneous porous medium as parallel capillaries along the flow direction with periodically distributed constrictions, we first build a governing differential equation for pressure. Solving this equation gives a quantitative correlation between the total pressure drop and measurable parameters, including concentration and stiffness of particles, size ratio of particle to pore throat, and flow rate. The resultant permeability reduction is also obtained. Our results show that the total pressure drop and permeability reduction are both exponentially dependent on the particle concentration and the size ratio of particles to pore throat. With no more than two fitting parameters, our model shows excellent agreements with several reported experiments. The work not only sheds light on understanding transport of soft particles in porous media but also provides important guidance for choosing the optimal parameters in the relevant industrial processes.
Illustration of (a) homogeneous porous medium; (b) generalized capillary bundle model; (c) microgel suspension flowing in capillary. LP is the distance between two successive deformed microgels in throats. Inset: a deformed microgel marked with the contact length and the pressures at upstream and downstream side of the microgel.
Comparisons between model prediction and experimental results for the variation of (a) total pressure drop with position when L/L̃ is small; and (b) pressure gradient with the ratio of gel to throat diameter [12].
Comparison between model prediction and experimental results for the variations of (a) residual resistance factor; (b) pressure drop as a function of Darcy flux. Red error bars and circles are experimental data from Ref. [8]; green crosses are experimental data from Ref. [14].
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Rampant use of antibiotics caused antibiotic pollution in natural aquatic environment such as rivers, lakes, groundwater, seawater, sediments, plants and aquatic animals12,21,26,28,29,39,52. Continuous presence of traces of antibiotics in environment lead to the rapid development and spread of antibiotic resistance, consequently threatening the effectiveness of antibiotics. Antibiotics enter aquatic environment majorly through effluent discharges from wastewater treatment plants1,26,31,36,56. After entering the natural environment antibiotics get subjected to various ecological/environmental processes such as advection, dispersion, diffusion, degradation, settling, resuspension, pH, sorption, sunlight, temperature, presence of organic compounds/minerals, and population of bacteria. Ecological factors affect the fate of antibiotics significantly, hence play important role in the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in environment. For example, sorption dictates the uptake and degradation of antibiotics over the reaches of streams as antibiotics are very much susceptible to getting adsorbed to bed material. Sorption behavior of antibiotics is dependent on their molecular structure and physicochemical properties of sediments and water, such as pH, organic matter and mineral contents3,9,10,42,48,50. Sunlight is another example of ecological factor which affects the presence of antibiotics through photodegradation, which is again dependent on other environmental factors such as pH, temperature, presence of salts, organic compounds etc.23,26,51.
In a transport model the variables are affected by several natural phenomenon. For example, total suspended particles are affected by hydrological conditions such as river bed slope, type of bed material, flow of water, depth of water and rainfall, and also, due to ecosystem of the river as well as anthropogenic factors8,10,33. Similarly, other variables are also dependent on the number of natural processes. All the variables which affect a model should be considered for accurate prediction of model results. However, the variables in the model are also the sources of randomness due to which uncertainty creeps in the model. Uncertainty in a model may be attributed to randomness in model parameters, initial boundary and end boundary conditions. It is important not to ignore uncertainty in the model in order to obtain predictable outcomes of the studied system. In this study, our goal is to analyze the impact of stochasticity in the model parameters on temporal and spatial prediction of antibiotic resistance in aquatic environment.
The partial differential equations are developed from mass balance around a control volume of A Δx. All the contaminant concentrations in sediment and water are referred to the mass per unit of total environmental volume (liters). The mass balance equations are comprised of the transport terms and reaction terms. The transport terms are advection, dispersion, settling, re-suspension and diffusion. Reaction terms in the model are adsorption, hydrolysis, bacterial growth, bacterial growth inhibition, death of bacteria, degradation, resistance gene transfer (conjugation) and loss of resistance gene (segregation).
Mass balance equations are presented without transport terms and single term is used to represent resistant bacterial culture as \(n_resistant\), to simplify the model for clarity. Full equations are mentioned in supplementary information.
Metals utilization is considered for the growth of bacteria up to a certain concentration and is treated as inhibitor above that inhibition level of concentration. No other decay was assumed for the metals.
Stochastic process or random process is a collection of random variables representing the evolution of random values over time in some system. In a deterministic process the same trajectory of outcome is observed for a given set of initial conditions and parameter values, but in a stochastic process there is some indeterminacy, and the process may evolve in several directions. Hence, stochastic partial differential equation arises when randomness is introduced into the phenomena represented by a deterministic differential partial equation in a meaningful way, and relevant parameters are modeled as a suitable stochastic process35.
In this study, Poisson process is employed to model the noise to formulate SPDE for transport of antibiotic and its resistant culture in the aquatic environment of the river. Poisson distribution could be employed in the processes where: a definite number of times an event occurs; the occurrence of one event is independent of the other; the average rate of the event is also independent of other the occurrences; and two events can not occur at the same time. Koyama et al.24 demonstrated that the frequency of cell counts of bacterial culture follows a Poisson distribution. Steven45 discussed how the random stochastic fluctuations in the microscopic processes follow a pattern of Poisson distribution and how it affects the patterns of nature in disease onset, rates of amino acids substitutions and composition of ecological communities. Mucha et al.37 presented a model for sedimentation of thin cells where velocity fluctuations are predicted by independent-Poisson-distribution estimates. Radioactive decay rates are reported to follow the Poisson distribution6. In ecological theory and practices, Poisson distribution usually represents a baseline against which other spatial patterns are compared, and its tractability helped in the development of the mathematics of population dynamics47.
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