Experimental investigation of main controls to methane adsorption in clay-rich rocks

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2533-2545

  Ji, Liming ^a,b   Zhang, Tongwei ^b   Milliken, Kitty L ^b   Qu, Junli ^a   Zhang, Xiaolong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION EXPERIMENT; BET SURFACE AREA; DOMINANT PROCESS; DRY CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GAS ADSORPTION CAPACITY; HEAT OF ADSORPTION; ILLITE-SMECTITE; LANGMUIR CONSTANT; LINEAR CORRELATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; METHANE ADSORPTION; MIXED LAYER; MONTMORILLONITE CLAY; MUDROCKS; NATURAL LOGARITHMS; ROCK SAMPLE; SIZE RANGES; SORPTION CAPACITIES; STANDARD ENTROPY; SURFACE SITES; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ENTROPY; GAS ADSORPTION; KAOLINITE; METHANE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYSISORPTION; QUARRIES; ROCKS; SORPTION;

MINERALS;

ADSORPTION; CLAY MINERAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METHANE; MINE; ORGANIC MATTER; QUARRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84868532642     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.08.027     Document Type: Article

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