Investigating the effect of sorption time on coalbed methane recovery through numerical simulation

Fuel

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2428-2444

  Ziarani, Ali S ^a   Aguilera, Roberto ^a   Clarkson, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Coal; Diffusion; Langmuir Isotherm

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; COAL SEAMS; COALBED METHANE RECOVERY; COALBED METHANE RESERVOIR; COALBED METHANES; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION FLOW; EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; GAS PRODUCTIONS; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; MATRIX; MULTI-LAYERED; NON-EQUILIBRIUM SORPTION; NONEQUILIBRIUM MODEL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRODUCTION PHASE; PRODUCTION RATES; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; SORPTION TIME; STEADY STATE DIFFUSION; TRANSIENT STATE; VERTICAL WELLS; WELLBORE;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FIREDAMP; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; WELLS;

METHANE;

EID: 79955468028     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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