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Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Loading and Unloading on Coal Permeability with Different Sediment Beddings

Authors :
Chaojun Fan
Haiou Wen
Hao Sun
Lijun Zhou
Xinpeng Zhang
Chun Zhu
Weiwei Su
Source :
Lithosphere, Vol 2022, Iss Special 10 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
GeoScienceWorld, 2022.

Abstract

AbstractThe sediment bedding direction and loading-unloading have significant effect on permeability of coal sample. The coal samples taken from Zhangcun Coal Mine in Shanxi were used to measure coal permeability with different sediment beddings under the effect of loading and unloading by the triaxial coal-rock seepage experimental apparatus. The influence of gas pressure, loading-unloading, and sediment bedding direction on the permeability of coal samples was analyzed, and the functional relationship among these parameters was recovered by fitting. The results show that the permeability of all vertical, dip, and horizontal bedding coal samples decreases exponentially with the increase of effective stress during stress loading, while the permeability of three kinds of bedding coal samples increases exponentially with the decrease of effective stress during stress unloading. Under the same gas pressure, the fracture space of coal samples with vertical and dip bedding is more likely to be compressed and closed at the initial stage of loading, resulting in great decrease of the permeability. In the initial stage of unloading, the microcracks and natural beddings in coals gradually expand and connect. Due to the well development of fractures, the permeability of vertical bedding coal samples increases greatly, while the permeability of dip and horizontal bedding coal samples increases slightly. In the loading process, the permeability of coal sample is vertical bedding > dip bedding > horizontal bedding in order. For the tested samples, the permeability of vertical bedding coal samples is 1.3 to 2.8 times that of dip or horizontal bedding coal samples. In the unloading process, the permeability of the vertical bedding coal samples was 2.8 to 3.3 times that of the dip or horizontal bedding coal samples.

Subjects

Subjects :
Geology
QE1-996.5

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19474253 and 19418264
Volume :
2022
Issue :
Special 10
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Lithosphere
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.6d64efdc3bc5409ba71ba8afd5f0bed7
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/9949201