CH4/H2O/CO2在煤大分子中自扩散的分子模拟

    Molecular simulation of self-diffusion of CH4, H2O and CO2 in coal macromolecule

    • 摘要: 通过巨正则蒙特卡罗和分子动力学方法,计算不同系综条件下CH4、CO2、H2O在煤分子中的扩散系数,并考察了温度和压力的影响。结果表明:在NPT系综下,随着温度的升高,CH4和CO2的扩散系数逐渐增大,H2O的扩散系数呈现波动式增加;在每个温度下,H2O扩散系数均大于CH4和CO2;扩散活化能表现为E(\mathrmH_2\mathrmO)<E(\mathrmCO_2) < E(\mathrmCH_4) ,表明CH4的扩散最难发生,CO2的扩散更容易发生;随着压力的升高,各种气体分子的溶胀率逐渐越大;高压时,分子溶胀作用显著,预示着H2O和CO2吸附在提高煤层气采收率过程中可以引起显著的煤基质溶胀,从而导致气体传输通道变窄,不利于煤层气的产出;CH4、H2O和CO2扩散活化能均随着压力的升高而逐渐升高,且增幅有增大的趋势,预示着在压力较高时激活CH4、H2O和CO2扩散需要克服更高的分子结构能垒,CO2应以较快的速度注入煤体中,从而提高煤层气采收率。

       

      Abstract: In this paper, the self-diffusion coefficients (SDC) of CH4/CO2/H2O in coal molecules under different ensemble conditions and the effects of temperature and pressure are calculated by grand canonical Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics (MD) methods. Results indicated that the self-diffusion coefficients of CH4 and CO2 gradually increase with the increasing temperature under the NPT ensemble. The SDC of H2O increases undulatory and it is higher than that of CH4 and CO2 at each temperature, where the diffusion activation energy followed the order of E(\mathrmH_2\mathrmO)<E(\mathrmCO_2)< E(\mathrmCH_4) , indicating that the CH4 diffusion was the most difficult to occur, and the diffusion of CO2 is more easy to occur. With the increase of pressure, the swelling rate of various gas molecules gradually increases. At high pressure, the molecular swelling effect is significant, indicating that the adsorption of H2O and CO2 in the enhanced coalbed methane recovery process can cause significant coal matrix swelling, resulting in narrow gas transmission channels, which is not conducive to the production of coalbed gas. The diffusion activation energies of CH4, H2O and CO2 all increase gradually with the increase of pressure, and the increase trend is increasing, indicating that the self-diffusion of CH4, H2O and CO2 needs to overcome the higher molecular structure energy barrier when the pressure is high. CO2 should be injected into coal body at a faster rate, so as to improve the recovery rate of coalbed methane.

       

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