Abstract:
Based on displacing coalbed methane by the natural CO
2 injection in Yaojie coalfield, coal samples and gas samples are taken continuously at different distances away from CO
2 injection points. Infrared spectroscopy analysis is done for series of coal samples; the results show that the absorption peaks change significantly in the spectra wavenumbers of 2 800~3 000 cm
-1, 2 270~2 413 cm
-1, and 1 000~1200 cm
-1. Then, the coal samples before and after supercritical CO
2 treatment are analyzed from another coal mines, The above-mentioned wavenumbers of the absorption peak intensity also change, and treated coal sample absorption peak intensity is lower. These experiments demonstrate that injection of supercritical CO
2 can extract the aliphatic aromatic hydrocarbons and part of the minerals from the coal matrix during the migration path.