Two phase relative permeabilities for gas and water in selected European coals

Sevket Durucan; Mustafa Ahsan; Ji Quan Shi; Amer Syed; Anna Korre

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2014.05.040

Two phase relative permeabilities for gas and water in selected European coals

Sevket Durucan^*, Mustafa Ahsan, Ji Quan Shi, Amer Syed, Anna Korre

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Gas-water relative permeability behaviour of seven European coals of different ranks was characterised in order to enhance the scientific understanding of the fundamental processes of two-phase flow taking place within the macrostructure of coal. Laboratory experiments were carried out on cylindrical coal samples using the unsteady state method to measure gas-water relative permeabilities due to its operational simplicity. The impact of factors such as wettability and overburden pressure on coal relative permeabilities were assessed. Considerable variation in the shapes of the relative permeability curves for different rank coals was observed, which was attributed to the heterogeneous nature of coal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	226-236
Number of pages	11
Journal	Fuel
Volume	134
Early online date	1 Jun 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2014.05.040
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2014

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Coalbed methane
Enhanced coalbed methane
Laboratory experiments
Relative permeability

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