Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering
>> 2009,
Volume 3,
Issue 1
doi:
10.1007/s11705-009-0138-0
RESEARCH ARTICLE
A multi-scale model for CO
1. School of Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld 4072, Australia; 2. School of Resources and Geoscience, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou221008, China
Available online: 2009-03-05
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Abstract
This paper presents a multi-scale model to simulate the multicomponent gas diffusion and flow in bulk coals for CO sequestration enhanced coalbed methane recovery. The model is developed based on a bi-dispersed structure model by assuming that coal consists of microporous micro-particles, meso/macro-pores and open microfractures. The bi-disperse diffusion theory and the Maxwell-Stefan approach were incorporated in the model, providing an improved simulation of the CH —CO /CH —N counter diffusion dynamics. In the model, the counter diffusion process is numerically coupled with the flow of the mixture gases occurring within macro-pores or fractures in coal so as to account for the interaction between diffusion and flow in gas transport through coals. The model was validated by both experimental data from literature and our CO flush tests, and shows an excellent agreement with the experiments. The results reveal that the gas diffusivities, in particular the micro-pore diffusivities are strongly concentration-dependent.
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