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Sorption of CH4 and CO2 on Belgium Carboniferous Shale Using a Manometric Set-up

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Shale gas resources are globally abundant and the development of these resources can increase CH4 production. It is of interest to study the possibility of enhancing CH4 production by CO2 injection (Enhanced Gas Recovery—EGR). Some studies indicate that, in shale, five molecules of CO2 can be stored for every molecule of CH4 produced. The technical feasibility of Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) needs to be investigated in more detail. The amount of extracted natural gas from shale has increased rapidly over the past decade. A typical shale gas reservoir combines an organic-rich deposition with extremely low matrix permeability. One important parameter in assessing the technical viability of (enhanced) production of shale gas is the sorption capacity. Our focus is on the sorption of CH4 and CO2. Therefore we have chosen to use the manometric method to measure the excess sorption isotherms of CO2 at 318 K and of CH4 at 308, 318 and 336 K and at pressures up to 105 bar on Belgium dry black shale from a depth of 745 m. The shale was obtained from a former coal mine in Zolder in the Campina Basin (North Belgium), which contains Westphalian coal and coal associated sediments of Northwest European origin. We derive the equations for excess sorption in the manometric set-up. Only a few measurements have been reported in the literature for high-pressure gas sorption on shales, and interest is largely focused on shales occurring outside Europe. The excess sorption isotherm shows an initial increase to a maximum value of 0.175 ± 0.004 mmol/g for CO2 and then starts to decrease until it becomes zero at 82 bar and subsequently the excess sorption becomes negative. Similar behaviour was also observed for other shales and coal reported in the literature. The experiments on CH4 show, as expected, decreasing sorption for increasing temperature. We apply an error analysis based on Monte-Carlo simulation. It shows that the error is increasing with increasing pressure, but that the manometric set-up can be used to determine the sorption capacity of CO2 and CH4 on the black shale with sufficient accuracy.

Published in: International Journal of Coal Geology volumes 128–129, 1 August 2014, pp. 153–161.

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Abbreviations

EGR:

Enhance Gas Recovery

TOC:

Total Organic Carbon

CCS:

Carbon Capture and Storage

EOS:

Equation of State

SEM:

Scanning Electron Microscope

XRF:

X-Ray Fluorescence, the elemental composition analysis

XRD:

X-Ray Diffraction, the mineral composition analysis

T :

Temperature

P :

Pressure

P f :

filling pressure

\( \rho \) :

Density of the gas

\( \rho_{eq}^{N - 1} \) :

Equilibrium density of gas in step N-1

\( \rho_{eq}^{N} \) :

Equilibrium density of gas in step N

\( \rho_{f}^{N} \) :

Density of the gas filled in the reference cell step N

\( V_{r} \) :

Volume of reference cell

\( V_{v} \) :

Void volume

\( V_{v}^{N} \) :

Void volume measured in step N

\( V_{v}^{0} \) :

Void volume measured by Helium prior to the gas sorption experiment

\( m_{ads}^{N - 1} \) :

Sorbed mass in step N-1

\( m_{ads}^{N} \) :

Sorbed mass in step N

\( {\Delta}V_{sw}^{N} \) :

The changes in void volume of the sample due to its swelling in step N

\( {\Delta}V_{ads}^{N} \) :

The changes in void volume of the sample due to the sorption in step N

\( {\Delta}V_{react}^{N} \) :

The changes in void volume of the sample due to the reaction in step N

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Khosrokhavar, R. (2016). Sorption of CH4 and CO2 on Belgium Carboniferous Shale Using a Manometric Set-up. In: Mechanisms for CO2 Sequestration in Geological Formations and Enhanced Gas Recovery. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23087-0_4

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