Pollet-Villard, M; Daval, D; Ackerer, P; Saldi, GD; Knauss, KG; Wild, B; Fritz, B; (2017) Experimental study of dissolution kinetics of K-feldspar as a function of crystal structure anisotropy under hydrothermal conditions. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science , 17 pp. 165-168. 10.1016/j.proeps.2016.12.042.

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Abstract

We present the results of an experimental study of the effect of anisotropy on the kinetics of K-Feldspar dissolution under hydrothermal conditions as encountered in the Soultz-sous-Forêts enhanced geothermal system. We try to quantify the impact of K-feldspar anisotropy on dissolution rates in order to develop a more comprehensive model of the evolution of the reactive surface of silicate minerals in order to propose alternate kinetic rate laws to be implemented into water-rock interaction models and reactive transport codes. Our results evidence a relation between K-spar dissolution rate and the Gibbs free energy of reaction (ΔGr) which clearly differs from the transition state theory usually implemented into geochemical codes: it depends on the crystallographic orientation of K-spar mineral with significant differences between the different crystal faces. As for the far-from-equilibrium dissolution rate, this result highlights that using a unique theoretical rate law to describe dissolution rate as a function of ΔGr remains highly questionable. These results are very important for our challenge of understanding and modelling the dissolution mechanisms and they evidence that the dissolution anisotropy plays a fundamental role in these mechanisms.

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