Kerogen Swelling and Confinement: Its implication on Fluid Thermodynamic Properties in Shales

Pathak, Manas; Kweon, Hyukmin; Deo, Milind; Huang, Hai

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12982-4

Title: Kerogen Swelling and Confinement: Its implication on Fluid Thermodynamic Properties in Shales

Journal Article · 02 October 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12982-4 · OSTI ID:1469361

^[1]; Kweon, Hyukmin ^[1];

^[1]; Huang, Hai ^[2]

Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Type I kerogen was isolated from Green River Shale and characterized using SEM, TGA, DSC, and nitrogen adsorption. The swelling behavior of this kerogen with decane was analyzed using traditional test-tube swelling experiment and Dynamic Light Scattering. The TGA and DSC were used to analyze the thermodynamic behavior of decane that was sorbed in the kerogen and show that kerogen suppresses the boiling point of decane due to the effect of confinement. However, the suppression is larger when oil (a multicomponent mixture) was used, possibly due to the combined effect of differential uptake of components by kerogen (kerogen prefers and sorbs polars and aromatics more than saturates, leading to splitting of oil into a sorbed and a free phase) and confinement in nano pores. Test-tube swelling, TGA, and DSC experiments were also performed on pyridine(polar-aromatic)-swelled kerogen. The combined and individual contributions from the two effects (the effect of confinement and differential uptake of hydrocarbon components) on properties of liquid in contact with kerogen, are studied in this work. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations revealed the variation in the swelling of type II kerogen in the presence of same amount of different liquids (differential swelling of kerogen).

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Research Organization:: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC07-05ID14517

OSTI ID:: 1469361

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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