Molecular simulation and experimental characterization of the nanoporous structures of coal and gas shale

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-128

  Firouzi, Mahnaz ^a   Rupp, Erik C ^a   Liu, Corey W ^b   Wilcox, Jennifer ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; Coal; Gas adsorption isotherm; Molecular modeling; NMR cryoporometry; Shale

Indexed keywords

CARBON BASED MATERIALS; CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATIONS; CHARACTERIZATION OF COAL; CRYOPOROMETRY; ENHANCED METHANE RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; ISOTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CARBON CAPTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; EXPERIMENTS; FREEZING; GAS ADSORPTION; MOLECULAR MODELING; POROUS MATERIALS; SHALE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

ADSORPTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COAL; GAS; METHANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC MATTER; SHALE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84890808402     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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