SEAN RIGBY sean.rigby@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Pore structural evolution of shale following thermochemical treatment
Rigby, Sean P.; Jahan, Hosne; Stevens, Lee; Uguna, Clement; Snape, Colin; Macnaughton, Bill; Large, David J.; Fletcher, Robin S.
Authors
Hosne Jahan
LEE STEVENS LEE.STEVENS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Senior Research Fellow
CLEMENT UGUNA clement.uguna@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
COLIN SNAPE COLIN.SNAPE@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Chemical Technology & Chemical Eng
Bill Macnaughton
DAVID LARGE David.Large@nottingham.ac.uk
Abbott Professor of Geoscience
Robin S. Fletcher
Abstract
Shales experience heat treatment concurrent with the presence of water or steam during reservoir engineering interventions, such as high pressure water fracking and in-situ combustion of hydrocarbons. This work utilises a novel technique, which is a combination of gas sorption overcondensation and integrated mercury porosimetry experiments, not used before for any type of porous material, to study the pore structure of a shale rock, and its evolution following thermal treatment in the presence of water. Overcondensation allows the extension of gas sorption beyond the limits of conventional experiments to enable direct study of macroporosity. Scanning curve experiments, initiated from the complete boundary desorption isotherm, that can only be obtained for macropores by overcondensation experiments, has revealed details of the relative pore size spatial disposition within the network. In particular, it has been found that the new large voids formed by treatment are shielded by relatively much narrower pore windows. Use of a range of different adsorbates, with differing polarity, has allowed the chemical nature of the pore surface before and after treatment to be probed. Integrated rate of gas sorption and mercury porosimetry experiments have determined the level of the particular contribution to mass transport rates of the newly introduced porosity generated by thermal treatment. Combined CXT and mercury porosimetry have allowed the mapping of the macroscopic spatial distribution of even the new mesoporosity, and revealed the degree of pervasiveness of the new voids that leads to a thousand-fold increase in mass transport on thermal treatment.
Citation
Rigby, S. P., Jahan, H., Stevens, L., Uguna, C., Snape, C., Macnaughton, B., …Fletcher, R. S. (2020). Pore structural evolution of shale following thermochemical treatment. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 112, Article 104058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104058
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 23, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 26, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2020-02 |
Deposit Date | Oct 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 27, 2020 |
Journal | Marine and Petroleum Geology |
Print ISSN | 0264-8172 |
Electronic ISSN | 1873-4073 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 112 |
Article Number | 104058 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104058 |
Keywords | Shale; Pyrolysis; In-situ combustion; Pore network; Gas sorption; Mercury porosimetry; X-ray tomography |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2837801 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817219304878 |
Contract Date | Oct 15, 2019 |
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