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Digital Quantitative Study on Fracture Gas Storage Space for a Three-Layer Composite Residual Mining Area

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  • Guorui Feng

    (College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Key Laboratory of Shanxi Province for Mine Rock Strata Control and Disaster Prevention, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Shanxi Province Coal-Based Resources Green and High-Efficiency Development Engineering Center, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Weichao Fan

    (College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Key Laboratory of Shanxi Province for Mine Rock Strata Control and Disaster Prevention, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Shanxi Province Coal-Based Resources Green and High-Efficiency Development Engineering Center, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Zhen Li

    (Key Laboratory of Shanxi Province for Mine Rock Strata Control and Disaster Prevention, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Shanxi Province Coal-Based Resources Green and High-Efficiency Development Engineering Center, Taiyuan 030024, China
    College of Safety and Emergency Management Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Zhiwei Wang

    (College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Key Laboratory of Shanxi Province for Mine Rock Strata Control and Disaster Prevention, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Shanxi Province Coal-Based Resources Green and High-Efficiency Development Engineering Center, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Yidie Zhang

    (College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Key Laboratory of Shanxi Province for Mine Rock Strata Control and Disaster Prevention, Taiyuan 030024, China
    Shanxi Province Coal-Based Resources Green and High-Efficiency Development Engineering Center, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Yanqun Yang

    (Shanxi Coking Coal Group Co., Ltd., Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Xiaohong Yang

    (Shanxi Coking Coal Group Co., Ltd., Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Xiangming Zhang

    (College of Safety and Emergency Management Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China)

  • Gan Feng

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource & Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China)

Abstract

Quantifying the fracture gas storage space is the key to improving the coalbed methane (CBM) extraction efficiency in residual mining areas (RMAs). In this paper, a new digital quantitative description method of fractures is proposed when using a digital image correlation (DIC) system to monitor strata displacement, which improves the accuracy of fracture statistical data. The results show that with the evolution of RMA from single to three layers, the rock strata area with displacement greater than 3.5 mm increases radially and the maximum fracture rate of the uppermost RMA increases by 64.26%. The fracture rate increases exponentially from top to bottom in a long-distance composite RMA and distributes parabolically in the horizontal partition. The area with the highest average fracture rate (12.65%) in the close-distance composite RMA is defined as the concentrated growth area. The longitudinal fracture rate of a cross-layer fracture area in the three-layer RMA exceeds 60%. The cross-layer fracture area connecting the composite RMA at the open-cut side is a favorable extraction location for surface drilling. The research results will provide theoretical support for the safe and sustainable exploitation of CBM and residual coal in composite RMA.

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  • Guorui Feng & Weichao Fan & Zhen Li & Zhiwei Wang & Yidie Zhang & Yanqun Yang & Xiaohong Yang & Xiangming Zhang & Gan Feng, 2023. "Digital Quantitative Study on Fracture Gas Storage Space for a Three-Layer Composite Residual Mining Area," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-19, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:8:p:6348-:d:1118119
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