A Novel Damage-Based Permeability Model for Coal in the Compaction and Fracturing Process Under Different Temperature Co
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A Novel Damage‑Based Permeability Model for Coal in the Compaction and Fracturing Process Under Different Temperature Conditions Chonghong Ren1,5 · Bobo Li1,2,3 · Jiang Xu4 · Yao Zhang1 · Jianhua Li1 · Zheng Gao1 · Jin Yu5 Received: 29 January 2020 / Accepted: 24 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Before a coal mining operation, it is necessary to carry out coal-bed methane (CBM) pre-extraction to prevent coal and gas explosions, causing accidents. However, gas extraction and coal mining will lead to coal damage, which results in a change in the gas migration law. Especially, under deep mining conditions, the gas migration mechanism is more complicated owing to a high ground temperature. Coal permeability is the most important constituent that determines gas flow properties. Therefore, the coal permeability evolutionary law related to damage-induced conditions under different temperatures should be further researched. In this paper, a series of triaxial seepage experiments during the whole stress-induced process, and in the changing of the effective stress process were carried out. The results have shown that during the whole stress–strain process, with an increase in axial strain, coal permeability gradually decreases to a minimum value at first, then increases sharply, and finally keeps nearly constant. A higher temperature resulted in a lower elastic modulus, peak strain, and peak strength, but it caused higher thermal damage. When the coal fractures, coal permeability increases with the increase in temperature. During a change in the effective stress process, higher temperatures resulted in higher permeability. Under higher effective stress, the impact of temperature on permeability was not significant. Based on the above results, a novel damage-based permeability model was developed to describe the permeability evolutionary law caused by damage-induced conditions under compaction, and in a fracturing situation. In the proposed model, an exponential function has been used for the combination between permeability and damage variable. The damage variable is composed of thermal damage and mechanical damage. In addition, the damage variable has been modified by introducing a modified function of the initial damage. Finally, the proposed model has been applied to fit two sets of experimental data available. The fitting results showed that the proposed permeability model could well reflect the permeability behaviors of damage-induced coal at different temperatures. Keywords Compaction · Fracturing · Thermal damage · Damage-based permeability · Initial damage · Coal List of Symbols * Bobo Li [email protected] 1
College of Mining, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, People’s Republic of China
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Guizhou Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Utilization of Non-Metallic Mineral Resources, Guiyang 550025, People’s Republic of China
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National and Local Joint Laboratory of Engineering for Effective Utilization of Regional Mineral Resources From Karst Areas,
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