Competitive Methane Desorption by Supercritical CO2 Injection in Coal

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-54

  Shi, Ji Quan ^a   Mazumder, Saikat ^b,c   Wolf, Karl Heinz ^b   Durucan, Sevket ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 storage; Coal; Competitive desorption; Enhanced methane recovery; Numerical simulation; Supercritical CO2

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION;

CO2 STORAGE; COAL; COAL SAMPLES; COMPETITIVE DESORPTION; ENHANCED METHANE RECOVERY; LARGE DIAMETER; METHANE DESORPTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SUPERCRITICAL CO; SUPERCRITICAL CO2;

METHANE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COAL; COALBED METHANE; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; GAS FLOW; METHANE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STEAM INJECTION; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

EID: 50649118602     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9209-9     Document Type: Article

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