Modeling of thermal pressurization in tight claystone using sequential THM coupling: Benchmarking and validation against in-situ heating experiments in COx claystone

Xu, Hao; Rutqvist, Jonny; Plúa, Carlos; Armand, Gilles; Birkholzer, Jens

doi:10.1016/j.tust.2020.103428

Title: Modeling of thermal pressurization in tight claystone using sequential THM coupling: Benchmarking and validation against in-situ heating experiments in COx claystone

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2020.103428· OSTI ID:1756366

Xu, Hao ^[1]; Rutqvist, Jonny ^[1]; Plúa, Carlos ^[2]; Armand, Gilles ^[2]; Birkholzer, Jens ^[1]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
ANDRA Centre de Meuse/Haute-Marne, Bure (France)

We apply thermoporoelasticity and a sequentially coupling technique for modeling thermally-driven coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) processes in tight claystone. A THM benchmark case with a corresponding analytic solution for thermoporoelasticity under a constant heat loading verifies the model. Thereafter, two in situ heating experiments are simulated for model validation: a smaller-scale heating experiment (TED experiment) and a larger-scale experiment (ALC experiment) in Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone at the Meuse/Haute-Marne underground research laboratory in France. The model exhibits good performance to match the observed temperature and pore pressure evolution for the smaller-scale TED experiment. For the larger-scale ALC experiment, general trends of thermal-pressurization are captured in the modeling, but pressure is underestimated at some monitoring points during cool-down. This indicates that the THM response in the field may be affected by the variability of rock's properties or irreversible or time-dependent mechanical processes that are not included in the current thermoporoelastic model. The main contributions of this work are as follows: (1) we verify and validate the numerical simulator, TOUGH-FLAC, to be a valuable coupled THM modeling tool; (2) prove that the laboratory determined material parameters can be used as reference values for upscaling experiments. However, to better identify and quantify THM processes with modeling of in situ tests, more emphasize should be dedicated to obtaining high-quality mechanical deformation data.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1756366

Journal Information:: Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 103; ISSN 0886-7798

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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