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Experimental Study of Fracture Propagation: The Application in Energy Mining

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  • Yuxiang Cheng

    (Construction Engineering College, Jilin University, Ximinzhu Street, Changchun 130000, China)

  • Yanjun Zhang

    (Construction Engineering College, Jilin University, Ximinzhu Street, Changchun 130000, China)

Abstract

Hydraulic fracturing has been widely used in recent years as a key technology to improve energy mining efficiency in petroleum and geothermal industries. Laboratory hydraulic fracturing experiments recently were completed in six large-scale 300 × 300 × 300 mm rock specimens to better understand this complex process of hydraulic fracturing. When injection flow rate increases from 5 to 30 mL/min. The fracture initiation pressures and breakdown pressures increase, the propagation times and post-fracturing pressures decrease. The fracture geometries are observed and analyzed, mean injection power is proposed and results show that it could be used to roughly estimate the fracture total lengths. Moreover, the fracture permeabilities based on the pressure data are calculated and linearly ascend with the increase of injection flow rates. These results can provide some reasonable advice for implementing hydraulic fracturing reservoir simulations and improving energy production efficiency on application to field-scale operation.

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  • Yuxiang Cheng & Yanjun Zhang, 2020. "Experimental Study of Fracture Propagation: The Application in Energy Mining," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-31, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:6:p:1411-:d:333789
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