Abstract:
In the process of injecting CO
2 to enhance coalbed methane development, the change of coal reservoir permeability is affected by the coupling of effective stress change, coal matrix swell/shrinkage caused by gas adsorption/desorption, and gas slippage effect. Therefore, the steady-state method is used to conduct CH
4 and CO
2 seepage experiments to study the influence of coal adsorption strain and gas slippage effect on the CH
4 and CO
2 seepage process under different stress environments. The results show that the maximum adsorption strain produced by coal adsorbing CO
2 under the same stress environment is 1.01 to 2.39 times of CH
4, making the permeability of CH
4 in coal always higher than CO
2 . At the same time, as the buried depth increases, the external stress increases, the adsorbed strain decreases. In a low-stress environment, the permeability changes in a V shape with the decrease of the gas pressure, with the external stress increases, the permeability and the gas pressure are negatively related. In addition, the increase of external stress will strengthen the influence of gas slippage effect, making it dominate the evolution of permeability earlier.