Coal swelling strain and permeability change with injecting liquid/supercritical CO2 and N2 at stress-constrained conditions

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-64

  Kiyama, Tamotsu ^a   Nishimoto, Soshi ^b   Fujioka, Masaji ^c   Xue, Ziqiu ^d   Ishijima, Yoji ^a   Pan, Zhejun ^e   Connell, Luke D ^e  

^a Northern Advancement Center for Science &Technology   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c Japan Coal Energy Center   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal; Permeability; Stress constrained conditions; Supercritical CO2; Swelling

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE; COAL BED METHANE; COAL MATRIX; COAL SEAMS; COAL SWELLING; COALBEDS; CONSTRAINED CONDITIONS; EFFECTIVE STRESS; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ENHANCED COALBED METHANE RECOVERIES; FIELD TEST; FIELD TRIAL; GAS INJECTION; INITIAL STAGES; INJECTION RATES; INJECTION WELLS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID CO; OBSERVATION WELLS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY CHANGE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; STRAIN GAUGE; STRAIN RECOVERY; SUPERCRITICAL CO; SWELLING STRAIN; VOLUMETRIC SWELLING;

COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL INDUSTRY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FIREDAMP; GAGES; GAS PERMEABILITY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LIQUIDS; METHANE; NATURAL GAS WELLS; SWELLING; TESTING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER INJECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

METAL RECOVERY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COAL; COAL SEAM; COALBED METHANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; STRAIN; STRESS FIELD; SWELLING; WAVE VELOCITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 78650676654     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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