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Analyzing slippage coefficients and intrinsic permeabilities of dissimilar Indian coals considering their pore-size distributions: implications to CO2 storage in coal seams
  • Manab Mukherjee,
  • Santanu Misra
Manab Mukherjee
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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Santanu Misra
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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Abstract

Gas transport in dominantly microporous rocks such as coal, shale is significantly controlled by Klinkenberg or slippage effect at low reservoir pressures. Pore size fractions of the concerned reservoir rock control the degree of Klingenberg effect. This study tries to assess the differences in Klinkenberg effect in dissimilar coals owing to their difference in pore-size distributions. We report apparent permeabilities of three Gondowana coal samples from the Bokaro, Jharia, and Bansgara coalfields at room temperature and constant isostatic stress (6.2 MPa). The linear plots of apparent permeability versus inverse pore pressure were modelled using the Klinkenberg equation, and non-linear plots by the Ashrafi equation to determine the slippage coefficient and intrinsic permeabilities. Ashrafi model reports lower values of slippage corrected permeability compared to the Klinkenberg model. The slippage coefficient and intrinsic permeability obtained from N2 and CO2 is different for the Bansgara sample. The trends between transport parameters and pore-size parameters were examined. The slippage coefficient decreased with interconnected porosity and total specific pore volume. Intrinsic permeabilities showed an opposite trend to that of the slippage coefficient. The Bansgara sample having larger volumetric proportion of micropores in the pore volume gamut with open ended interconnected pore network resulted in the lowest slippage coefficient and highest intrinsic permeabiliity. Reporting the slippage coefficients and intrinsic permeabilities with corresponding pore size distributions of coal samples from different global basins will lead to statistically significant empirical relationships between pore size parameters and slippage coefficients.