A microfluidic chip and its use in characterising the particle-scale behaviour of microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP)
By Yuze Wang, Kenichi Soga, J. DeJong, Alexandre Kabla. Geotechnique, 2018
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Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) is an innovative ground improvement technique which can enhance the strength and stiffness of soils, and can also control their hydraulic conductivity. These engineering properties of MICP-treated soils are affected by particle-scale behaviour of the precipitated carbonate, i.e. composition, amount and distribution, which are controlled by the MICP process occurring at the particle-scale. In this study, we designed and fabricated a microfluidic chip to improve our understanding of MICP at particle-scale by observing the behaviour of bacteria and CaCO3 crystals during this process. We found that bacteria became evenly distributed throughout the microfluidic chip after the injection of bacterial suspension, grew during bacterial settling, and detached during the injection of cementation solution. Bacteria aggregated during the cementation solution injection, and CaCO3 crystals formed at narrow pore throats or open pore bodies either during or after cementation solution injections.
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering
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- Effects of Bacterial Density on Growth Rate and Characteristics of Microbial-Induced CaCO3 Precipitates: Particle-Scale Experimental Study (2020, methodology): “…been studied by using optical microscopes to observe CaCO3 crystals produced in liquid medium in petri dishes (Zhang et al., 2018), on glass slides (Wang et al. 2019b) or in microfluidic chips (Wang et al. 2019a,b; Kim et al., 2020), as well as crystals produced on solid agar pads (Zhang et al.,…”