The availability of light is a primary limiting factor for seagrass recovery and sustainability. Understanding not only the quantity but the quality of light reaching the bottom is an important component to successful seagrass management and the key focus of this study. This study explores the spectral properties of the sub-surface light field in four shallow Seagrass Management Areas (SMA) in Tampa Bay. Wavelength-specific photosynthetically active radiation (PAR(λ)) and the spectral light attenuation coefficient (Kd(λ)) are used to estimate the percent blue, green, and red light remaining at the bottom relative to the surface. LIDAR Bathymetry is combined with Kd(λ) to produce high-resolution maps of percent subsurface light along the seagrass deep edge. The absorptance spectra from two seagrass species together with PAR(λ) is used to calculate the photosynthetically useable radiation (PUR(λ)), a term describing the actual wavelengths of light being used by the seagrass. Based on the average annual Kd(λ) , 32% - 39% percent of PAR reached the bottom at the seagrass deep edge, while only 14% - 18% of blue light reached bottom, suggesting that seagrass may be blue-light limited. Analysis of PUR(λ) data further confirmed that seagrass are blue-light limited. Each SMA was characterized in terms of the inherent optical properties (IOP) of absorption and scatter. Tampa Bay is considered a chlorophyll-dominated estuary. However, in this study, colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) was the major absorber of blue light, accounting for 60% of the total absorption. To infer past light conditions, the IOPs were related to parameters more commonly used in routine monitoring programs. To estimate Kd(λ) an empirically-derived model using only the total absorption and scatter coefficients was used and resulted in a good fit between measured Kd(480) and modeled Kd(480). A deck-mounted flow-through system was used to survey each SMA for CDOM and chlorophyll a fluorescence, among other properties. A series of SMA-specific predictor equations were empirically derived to relate raw fluorescence to the IOPs. The Kitchen SMA was used as a case study. Survey results show a strong connection between CDOM-rich waters and the mangrove-dominated shoreline.

Capacitive Deionization (CDI) is an energy-efficient desalination technology that utilizes an electric field to extract ions from water. Flow-through CDI systems show potential for superior desalination performance compared to traditional flow-by CDI; however, they face the challenge of increased occurrence of Faradaic reactions, leading to undesired by-products and reduced energy efficiency. In this study, we constructed a flow-through CDI cell and investigated the desalination performance of the two possible cell configurations: upstream anode mode and downstream anode mode. A series of experiments were conducted, measuring conductivity and pH of the effluent solution during charging and discharging phases. The results were analyzed in terms of salt adsorption capacity and charge efficiency. We used pH fluctuations in the effluent solution as indicators of Faradaic reactions. It was found that upstream anode mode yielded superior desalination, with a salt adsorption capacity of 6.79 mg/g and charge efficiency of 64.3%, compared to downstream anode mode, which displayed a salt adsorption capacity of 5.19 mg/g and charge efficiency of 50.8%. However, upstream anode mode also produced more pronounced pH oscillations, suggesting a higher occurrence of Faradaic reactions. Reconciling these conflicting results and shedding light on the complex processes within the CDI cell calls for further investigation.

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[pt] Este estudo procurou observar e quantificar os parâmetros operacionais que governam as propriedades permoporosas da torta de filtração, formada após o escoamento de uma solução de glicerina com uma determinada concentração de sólidos. A formação de um reboco externo de baixa permeabilidade é um dos fatores mais importantes para minimizar da invasão do filtrado de fluido na rocha reservatório. A contaminação do reservatório pelo filtrado do fluido pode trazer vários problemas operacionais, que serão discutidos nesta dissertação. A eficiência do sistema de fluidos em minimizar a invasão é normalmente avaliada através de ensaios padrão de filtração estática. Neste trabalho dois objetivos centrais são definidos: Identificar os parâmetros operacionais que governam as propriedades permoporosas do reboco externo através de ensaios de filtração estática e disponibilizar uma metodologia para a avaliação da invasão do filtrado do fluido de perfuração na geometria poço-reservatório (escoamento radial), a partir de ensaios de laboratório de filtração estática (escoamento linear). Os resultados indicam que a solução da lei Darcy para o problema de filtração com formação de torta incompressível mostrou - se adequada para grande maioria dos ensaios experimentais com solução de glicerina contendo agentes obturantes. O mesmo não se verificou para ensaios com solução de goma xantana como meio contínuo. Os resultados experimentais obtidos mostraram também que, para uma mesma solução de glicerina contendo agente obturante, os valores de permeabilidade da torta de filtração obtidos na geometria linear e na geometria radial são semelhantes. Desta forma, pode - se validar a metodologia de previsão do grau da invasão de fluidos de perfuração na rocha reservatório (configuração radial) a partir de ensaios convencionais de laboratório (configuração linear). / [en] This work deals with the understanding of the major operational parameters governing filter cake building drilling fluids invasion through reservoir rocks. The ability of the fluid system to prevent invasion is normally evaluated by standardized static filtration experiments. In these tests, the fluid is pressurized through a filter paper or into a consolidated inert porous medium. The volume which crosses the porous core is monitored along the time. Darcy flow modeling of non-compressible cakes proved to reproduce adequately the filtration of a Newtonian fluid + particulate system through ceramic and sinterized steel disks. Pressure differential, particle size and shape proved to be relevant parameters affecting filter cake permeability and porosity. The present study proposes, through the coupling of a linear filtration formulation (lab configuration) and a radial single phase formulation (wellbore vicinity), to predict fluid invasion depth of fluid filtrate in the reservoir rock. Modeling is validated with linear and radial lab tests. The proposed methodology is a requirement for optimum drilling fluid design to be used in the drilling of reservoir sections in both exploratory and development wells.

[pt] O escoamento de emulsões é encontrado em diversos processos de recuperação e produção de petróleo. O escoamento de emulsões em meios porosos depende de diversos parâmetros como a relação do tamanho das gotas ao tamanho dos poros, a razão de viscosidades, a vazão volumétrica e o efeito destes parâmetros ainda não é bem compreendido. Uma análise detalhada na escala microscópica dos fenômenos envolvidos se faz essencial para a melhora do entendimento completo do escoamento de emulsões em um reservatório. Isto permitiria o desenvolvimento de melhores modelos de simulação para o escoamento multifísico em meios porosos. Neste trabalho, o escoamento de emulsões óleo-água através de um capilar com garganta foi estudado através de experimentos e teoria. A análise experimental consistiu da visualização sob um microscópio do escoamento e da medição da queda de pressão em função da vazão para diferentes emulsões. A análise teórica englobou o estudo do escoamento em regime permanente de uma gota de óleo imersa em água através de um capilar e o estudo do escoamento transiente da mesma gota através de um capilar com uma garganta. Os resultados mostram que os modelos de escoamento de emulsões em meios porosos não devem ser baseados em propriedades macroscópicas da emulsão quando o tamanho das gotas da fase dispersa for da mesma ordem de grandeza do tamanho dos poros. Neste caso, a queda de pressão é função da tensão interfacial, a razão de viscosidades, a vazão e a razão entre o tamanho das gotas e o diâmetro do poro. Os resultados apresentados neste trabalho podem ser usados no projeto de emulsões apropriadas para controle de mobilidade em operações de recuperação avançada através de injeção de emulsões. / [en] Flow of emulsions is found in many petroleum recovery and production processes and it is often referred to in the context of tertiary oil recovery. The characteristics of emulsion flow in porous media depend on several parameters such as medium drop size to pore size ratio, viscosity ratio, flow rate and the effect of these parameters is far from being entirely understood. A detailed analysis at a microscopic scale of the flow is essential to improve the understanding of flow of an emulsion in a reservoir. This would lead to the development of better simulation models, henceforth increasing the predictability capability of reservoir simulators for enhanced oil recovery applications. In this work, flow of oil-water emulsions through constricted capillaries, used as model for the geometry inside a porous media, is studied experimentally and theoretically. The experimental approach consisted of measuring pressure drop response as a function of flow rate for different emulsions and visualizing the flow under an optical microscope to understand the phenomena involved. The theoretical approach is divided in two parts. First, the immiscible steady flow of a infinite single drop suspended in an less viscous fluid through a capillary was analyzed by solving the Navier- Stokes equations with the appropriate boundary conditions for free-surface flow. The second part of the theoretical analysis consisted of solving the transient flow of a drop suspended in a less viscous fluid through a capillary with a constriction. It is shown the effect of capillary number and viscosity ratio over the main responses of the flow. The results show that models of emulsion flow in a porous media cannot be based on the macroscopic properties of the emulsion when the drop diameter is of the same order of magnitude as the pore throat diameter. In this case flow rate-pressure drop is a strong function of the interfacial tension, viscosity ratio, flow rate and drop to pore size ratio. The results can be used to design appropriate emulsions to control the water mobility during EOR operations by emulsion injection.

Les approches physico-chimiques étant insuffisantes pour évaluer l'impact de la pollution sur les écosystèmes , de nombreux bioessais, variant de par le niveau d'organisation représenté, ont été développés. Parmi ces essais on trouve les essais en microcosme aquatique de laboratoire qui sont un compromis entre les essais monospécifiques standards de laboratoire, méthodes couramment employées mais très simplifiées et peu représentatives sur le plan écologique et les essais en mésocosme extérieurs, plus représentatifs mais coûteux, lourds à mettre en œuvre, moins réplicables et plus difficiles à interpréter. Dans ce travail, nous nous sommes plus particulièrement intéressés à l'essai initialement développé par Clément et Cadier (1998). Cet outil permet d'évaluer l'effet de substances ou de matrices potentiellement contaminées sur un écosystème artificiel composé d'eau et de sédiment, dans lesquels sont introduites simultanément 5 espèces aquatiques d'eau douce usuellement employées dans des essais de toxicité mono-spécifiques : l'algue Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, la lentille d'eau Lemna minor, la daphnie Daphnia magna, l'amphipode Hyalella azteca et l'insecte Chironomus riparius. Cet essai en microcosme a été utilisé dans de nombreux projets depuis sa conception mais sa variabilité demeurait la principale limite malgré les améliorations successives. Le principal objectif de ce travail était donc d'optimiser l'essai. La principale amélioration testée a été le renouvellement continu de l'eau du système, qui a permis de stabiliser les paramètres physico-chimiques de la colonne d'eau des microcosmes et la densité algale, et ainsi d'améliorer le développement des organismes et la réplicabilité de l'essai. Le cadmium a été utilisé comme contaminant modèle afin d'évaluer les développements méthodologiques proposés. La diminution de la variabilité en présence de renouvellement d'eau augmente la capacité à détecter des effets sublétaux sur les organismes pélagiques avec les tests statistiques classiques. Le développement d'un cadre de modélisation dynamique a permis de comparer la sensibilité des daphnies au cadmium dans des expériences aux profils d'exposition différents. / The physico-chemical approaches are insufficient to assess the impact of pollution on ecosystems. Thus many bioassays, varying in the level of organization represented, have been developed, as laboratory aquatic microcosm tests. These tests are a compromise between single-species tests, which are standard laboratory methods commonly used but highly simplified and not very ecologically representative, and outdoor mesocosm tests, which are more representative but more expensive, heavy to implement, less replicable and more difficult to interpret. In this work, we focused on the bioassay originally developed by Clément and Cadier (1998). This tool allows to evaluate the effect of substances or potentially contaminated matrices on an artificial ecosystem consisting of water and sediment in which are introduced simultaneously five freshwater aquatic species commonly used in monospecific toxicity testing : the algea Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, the duckweed Lemna minor, the daphnia Daphnia magna, the amphipod Hyalella azteca and the insect Chironomus riparius. This test was used in many projects since its conception but its variability remains the main limitation despite successive improvements. The main objective of this study was to optimize the test. The main improvement was continuous renewal of the water system, which helped to stabilize the physico-chemical parameters of the water column and algal density, and thus improve the development of organisms and replicability of the test. Cadmium was used as a model contaminant to evaluate the proposed methodological developments. The decrease in variability in flowthrough microcosms increases the ability to detect sublethal effects on pelagic organisms with conventional statistical tests. The development of a dynamic modeling framework was used to compare the sensitivity of Daphnia to cadmium in experiments with different exposure pattern.

Experimental data convincingly show that viscosity of a fluid may change significantly with pressure. This observation leads to various generalizations of well-known models, like Darcy's law, Stokes' law or the Navier-Stokes equations, among others. This thesis investigates three such models in a series of three published papers. Their unifying topic is development of existence theory and finding a weak solution to systems of partial differential equations stemming from the considered models.

The theory of homogenization allows to find for a given system of partial differential equations governing a model with a very complicated internal struc- ture a system governing a model without this structure, whose solution is in a certain sense an approximation of the solution of the original problem. In this thesis, methods of the theory of homogenization are applied to three sys- tems of partial differential equations. The first one governs a flow of a class of non-Newtonian fluid through a porous medium. The second system is utilized for modeling of a flow of a fluid through an electric field wherein the viscosity depends significantly on the intensity of the electric field. For the third system is considered an elliptic operator having growth and coercivity indicated by a general anisotropic inhomogeneous N-function. 1

[pt] A injeção de emulsão em meio poroso como método de recuperação avançada pode se tornar realidade na operação de campos de petróleo devido à maior rigidez no descarte de água produzida e aos potenciais ganhos na produção de óleo. Para entender o comportamento macroscópico desta técnica de EOR, é necessário compreender o fenômeno microscópico. Com este objetivo, fez-se a modelagem numérica do escoamento de uma gota imersa em fase contínua escoando em capilar restrito utilizando o método de Lattice-Boltzmann. Este método foi escolhido devido à sua facilidade de ser aplicado em geometrias complexas de rocha e fluido e ao bom compromisso na representação dos fenômenos de microescala. Para entender a influência de cada parâmetro, foram realizadas diversas simulações em domínio tridimensional, alterando a velocidade do fluxo, a razão de viscosidades dos fluidos, a relação entre os diâmetros da gota e do tubo e a magnitude da tensão interfacial. Observou-se que a passagem da gota pela restrição causa uma redução na mobilidade do escoamento, representada por um aumento na perda de carga, pela conjunção dos efeitos viscosos e capilares. Obteve-se correlação negativa do fator redutor de mobilidade 𝑓 com a razão de viscosidade e com o tamanho da gota, assim como fora determinado numericamente por Roca-Reyes (2011) com o método level-set. Foi notada uma pequena sensibilidade de 𝑓 ao número de capilaridade, assim como estabelecido experimentalmente por Robles-Castillo (2011). Verificou-se a importância de se determinar o conjunto adequado de parâmetros do sistema para ter sucesso na implantação de injeção de emulsões. / [en] Emulsion injection in porous medium as an Enhanced Oil Recovery method can turn out to be reality in the operation of onshore and offshore fields, due to increasing rigidity in the disposal of produced water and also due to the potential additional oil production. In order to understand macroscopic behavior of this EOR method, it is necessary to understand the microscopic phenomenon. With this objective, it was performed the numerical modeling of the flow of a droplet immerse in continuous phase through a constricted capillary using the Lattice-Boltzmann method. This method was chosen due to its simplicity on being applied to complex rock geometries and multiphasic flow and due to its good commitment in representing microscopic phenomena. Focusing on understanding the influence of each parameter on flow behavior, several simulation studies were performed altering flow velocity, viscosity ratio, ratio between droplet s and pipe s diameter and interfacial tension. A reduction in mobility is observed as the droplet passes through the restriction caused by the conjunction of viscous and capillary effects. A negative correlation of mobility reduction factor 𝑓 in relation to the viscosity ratio and to droplet size was noticed, as it had been observed before by Roca-Reyes (2011) in a numerical implementation of level-set method. Weak correlation between 𝑓 and capillary number was determined, as in previous experimental essay performed by Robles-Castillo (2011). In this study, it was verified the importance of determining the appropriate set of system parameters, in order to achieve success in the implementation of emulsion injection.