Many large oil and gas fields in the most productive world regions happen to be fractured. The exploration and development of these reservoirs is a true challenge for many operators. These difficulties are due to uncertainties in geological fracture properties such as aperture, length, connectivity and intensity distribution. To successfully address these challenges, it is paramount to im...

The theory of coalbed methane distribution controlled by tectonism is a hot issue in the field geofluid-geotectonic interaction research. Taking geological structure scale range 1302 working face Guojiahe wellfield Yonglong mining area as background, this paper focuses on basic research problem influence control coal reservoir gas content and uses THM coupling model to analyze change characteri...

Hydrogen bonded poly(acrylic acid) (PAA)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer-by-layer assemblies are highly elastomeric, but more permeable than ionically bonded thin films. In order to expand the use of hydrogen-bonded assemblies to applications that require a better gas barrier, the effect of assembling pH on the oxygen permeability of PAA/PEO multilayer thin films was investigated. Altering the...

In this work we present measurements of permeability, effective porosity and tortuosity on a variety of rock samples using NMR/MRI of thermal and laser-polarized gas. Permeability and effective porosity are measured simultaneously using MRI to monitor the inflow of laser-polarized xenon into the rock core. Tortuosity is determined from measurements of the time-dependent diffusion coefficient us...

A modified polarographic method with inert gas for determination of the oxygen permeability in polymers immersed in liquids is described. Owing to the stream of an inert gas towards polymer from the cathode side, lateral oxygen diffusion (edge effects) is minimized. Unlike the standard Fatt method, the method with inert gas is suitable also for thick samples and, therefore, for high-permeable m...

The transport properties of the ceramic based refractory coating to allow proper permeation of degradation products during the pyrolysis of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam in Lost Foam Casting (LFC) have an important influence on the success of the casting process. This paper proposes a new apparatus to evaluate the permeability of the refractory coatings in a relatively large differential pres...

In vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process, fiber preform defects result very often from inappropriate placement at edge regions when the fiber preform has three-dimensional shape. The unintentional permeability variation is difficult to detect by viewing through the transparent vacuum bag. In this paper, a method was proposed for detecting the local permeability variation of the...