Overview of laboratory and modeling studies of carbon dioxide sequestration in coal beds

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2887-2901

  Tsotsis, Theodore T ^a   Patel, Hiren ^a   Najafi, Babak Fayyaz ^a   Racherla, Deepti ^a   Knackstedt, Mark A ^b   Sahimi, Muhammad ^a  

^a HED 216 ^*  (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; DATA REDUCTION; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS;

COAL BEDS; COAL-BED METHANE (CBM); SEQUESTRATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; FOSSIL FUEL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COALBED METHANE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADSORPTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FLOW RATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 2642538528     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0306675     Document Type: Review

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