Relative permeabilities of gas and water for different rank coals

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 86, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 266-275

  Shen, Jian ^a,b   Qin, Yong ^a,b   Wang, Geoff X ^c   Fu, Xuehai ^a,b   Wei, Chongtao ^a,b   Lei, Bo ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

CBM recovery; Coal; Coalbed methane (CBM); Permeability model; Relative permeability

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; CBM RECOVERY; COAL RANKS; COAL SEAMS; COALBED METHANES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS SATURATIONS; GAS SLIPPAGE; GAS-WATER; INERTINITE; IRREDUCIBLE WATER; IRREDUCIBLE WATER SATURATION; LOW RANK COALS; MACERAL COMPOSITION; PARAMETERIZED; PERMEABILITY MODEL; POWER FUNCTIONS; QINSHUI BASIN; RANK COAL; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESIDUAL WATER SATURATION; U-SHAPED; UNSTEADY-STATE METHODS; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE; VITRINITES;

ASSOCIATED GAS; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; EXPERIMENTS; FIREDAMP; GAS PERMEABILITY; METAL RECOVERY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

METHANE;

COAL RANK; COALBED METHANE; GAS PRODUCTION; MACERAL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

CHINA; QINSHUI BASIN; SHANXI;

EID: 79954585771     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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