Impact of transition from local swelling to macro swelling on the evolution of coal permeability

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-40

  Liu, Jishan ^a,b   Wang, Jianguo ^a   Chen, Zhongwei ^a   Wang, Shugang ^c   Elsworth, Derek ^c   Jiang, Yaodong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal permeability; Coal swelling; Local swelling; Macro swelling

Indexed keywords

COAL MATRIX; COAL SWELLING; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FRACTURE APERTURES; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INITIAL STAGES; INTERNAL FRACTURE; LOCAL SWELLING; MATRIX; MATRIX SWELLING; MODEL PREDICTION; POROELASTIC MODEL; SWELLING TRANSITIONS; SWELLING ZONES; SWITCHING MODEL; VARIABLE STRESS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; FRACTURE; GAS ADSORPTION;

SWELLING;

ADSORPTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; FRACTURE APERTURE; PERMEABILITY; POROELASTICITY; SWELLING;

EID: 84860389752     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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