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A pulse-decay method for low (matrix) permeability analyses of granular rock media
Tao Zhang
Department of Earth and Environment Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, United States
National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, PR China
National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, PR China
Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resource, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, PR China
Behzad Ghanbarian
Porous Media Research Lab, Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, United States
Derek Elsworth
Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, G3 Center and EMS Energy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States
Zhiming Lu
The Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, United States
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Tight rock is essential to various emerging fields of energy geosciences such as EGS and CCUS, but its ultra-low permeability is not easily measurable as a rigorous and rapid theory-based measurement technique for sub-nanodarcy levels is lacking. For the first time, we resolve this by providing an integrated technique (termed gas permeability technique) with coupled theoretical development, experimental procedures, and a data interpretation workflow.
Tight rock is essential to various emerging fields of energy geosciences such as EGS and CCUS,...