Depositional environments, subsurface stratigraphy, and post-burn characterization of the Paleocene-Eocene Hanna formation at the Hanna, Wyo UCG site: Hanna III experiment. [Hanna III post mortem]
During the summer of 1981 the Laramie Energy Technology Center conducted a post-burn coring program at the Hanna III Underground Coal Gasification site, Hanna, Wyoming. Detailed geologic studies were conducted on the altered and unaltered overburden as well as an analysis of the burn cavity. The overburden consists of about 46m of Paleocene-Eocene Hanna formation above the Hanna No. 1 coal seam used in the burn. The overburden contains two basic lithologic units: Unit A consists of very fine-grained sandstones, siltstones, and claystones deposited as a lacustrine delta. Unit A is immediately above the Hanna No. 1 coal. Unit B is above Unit A and consists of carbonaceous shales and mudstones containing isolated lenticular and tabular sandstone bodies deposited in a meandering fluvial system. The Hanna No. 1 coal accumulated in a poorly drained swamp that was subject to clastic flooding from an adjacent fluvial system. A reactor cavity 26m x 16m x 15m was formed during the burn and partially filled with rubble and three types of pyrometamorphic rock: paralava, paralava breccia, and buchite. The lithology, thickness, and lateral continuity of Unit A had a definite influence on the success of the experiment as the growth of the reactor cavity was contained completely within the lithologic unit.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Laramie, WY (USA). Laramie Energy Technology Center
- OSTI ID:
- 6896882
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/LC/RI-83-1; ON: DE83005076
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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