Theoretical and experimental validation of mining-enhanced permeability for simultaneous exploitation of coal and gas

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5951-5962

  Xie, Heping ^a   Xie, Jing ^a   Gao, Mingzhong ^a   Zhang, Ru ^a   Zhou, Hongwei ^b   Gao, Feng ^c   Zhang, Zetian ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coal and gas exploitation; Mining enhanced permeability; Permeability; Volumetric strain

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL MINES; DISASTER PREVENTION; ENERGY RESOURCES; FLOW OF GASES; GASES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METAL RECOVERY; METHANE;

COAL AND METHANES; COAL PERMEABILITIES; ENHANCED PERMEABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GAS EXPLOITATION; PERMEABILITY ENHANCEMENT; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84939968363     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4113-4     Document Type: Article

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