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A Uniaxial Compression Experiment with CO2-Bearing Coal Using a Visualized and Constant-Volume Gas-Solid Coupling Test System
Published on: June 12, 2019
Analysis of influence mechanism of CO2-water coupling fracturing sandstone
Hongjian Li1,2, Guangzhe Deng1,2
1Key Laboratory of Western Mine Exploitation and Hazard Prevention Ministry of Education, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shanxi Province, China.
Abstract:
The existence of hard rock layers has a serious impact on coal seam mining, in order to explore the acidification and crushing mechanism of hard sandstone rock layers, this paper adopts the self-developed CO2-water-rock coupling test device to carry out the testing of mechanical properties and internal structural characteristics of rock samples before and after the coupling action of the three sandstones, and analyzes the influencing factors of sandstone CO2 coupling crushing. The study shows that: the lower the temperature of CO2-water-rock coupling, the higher the pore pressure, the higher the volume fraction of CO2 in the coupling fracturing fluid, and the longer the coupling time, the greater the decrease in the mechanical strength of the rock samples, and the more complicated the splitting damage pattern is, and the CO2-water-rock coupling makes the pore and fracture volume fraction and fractal dimension of three kinds of sandstone samples increase to varying degrees, whereas the volume fraction of minerals and the fractal dimension decrease, and the CO2-water-rock coupling results in a decrease in the volume fraction of minerals and fractal dimension, and a decrease in the volume fraction of minerals and fractal dimension. The pore volume fraction and fractal dimension of the three sandstone samples increased to different degrees, while the mineral volume fraction and fractal dimension decreased, and the pore volume fraction and fractal dimension of the three sandstone samples decreased. The damage pattern of sandstone samples after coupling is affected by both chemical and mechanical damages. When using coupling fracturing fluid with 8 % CO2, the degree of mineral dissolution and dissolution is the largest, and the dissolution effect is larger than the precipitation effect, which has the most significant effect on the morphology type and connectivity of microscopic pore cracks, and the study in this paper has certain theoretical and practical value for the chemical softening of sandstone.
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