Abstract
Streaming potential is a passive hydrogeophysical method that can be used to monitor water flow in porous media. However, a quantitative use of this method requires a good understanding of the streaming potential generation in water saturated porous media. In this work, we used the Critical Path Analysis (CPA) method to propose a new model to estimate the streaming potential coupling coefficient (SPCC) in porous media. By comparing the proposed model with 109 experimental data points for both unconsolidated samples such as uniform glass bead and sand packs and consolidated samples such as sandstones, carbonates and with 36 simulated data points, we demonstrated that the CPA is applicable to model the SPCC for porous media with both narrow and broad pore size distributions. Additionally, from the obtained result for the uniform grain packings, we found the rc–d relationship between the critical pore radius rc and grain diameter d that was validated by using 70 experimental data points available in literature. The obtained rc–d relationship may be helpful for applications of CPA-based models for uniform grain packings. We believe that the CPA-based model is an useful alternative approach for modeling the streaming potential coupling coefficient in porous media along with two other models available in literature.
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