Improvements in Measuring Sorption-Induced Strain and Permeability in Coal
Total worldwide CBM in-place reserves estimates are between 3500 Tcf and 9500 Tcf. Unminable coal beds have been recommended as good CO2 sequestration sites as the world prepares to sequester large amounts of greenhouse gases. In the U.S., these coal seams have the capacity to adsorb and sequester roughly 50 years of CO2 emissions from all the U.S. coal-fired power plants at today’s output rates. The amount and type of gas ad-sorbed in coal has a strong impact on the permeability of the coal seam. An improved mixed gas adsorption iso-therm model based on the extended-Langmuir theory is discussed and is applied to mixed gas sorption-induced strain based on pure gas strain data and a parameter accounting for gas-gas interactions that is independent of the coal substrate. Advantages and disadvantages of using freestanding versus constrained samples for sorption-induced strain measurements are also discussed. A permeability equation used to model laboratory was found to be very accurate when sorption-induced strain was small, but less accurate with higher strain gases.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE - FE
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-99ID-13727
- OSTI ID:
- 941738
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-08-14637; TRN: US200825%%692
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Petroleum Engineers 2008 Eastern Regional Meeting,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,10/11/2008,10/15/2008
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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