There has been a long history of using X-rays to visualize coal and its transitions during
various treatments. Advances and improved availability has allowed the application of X-ray …

Microwave heating is a promising non-aqueous technology in coal seam enhancement.
Recently, it has been considered as an alternative technology to hydraulic fracturing and …

Diffusion coefficient is one of the key parameters determining the coalbed methane (CBM)
reservoir economic viability for exploitation. Diffusion coefficient of coal matrix controls the …

Pores in coal and their connectivity are important properties of coal, providing network or
channels for gas storage and migration within coal, eg during the coalbed methane (CBM) …

Understanding porosity in rock specimens on a range of length scales is critical for
assessment of geophysical properties relevant to petroleum and geothermal resources …

Pore network extraction, which is defined as the transformation from irregular pore space to
a simplified network in the form of pores connected by throats, is significant to microstructure …

In order to quantify the anisotropic characteristics of coal swelling deformation during the
process of methane adsorption, the inner mesoscopic structures of coal are scanned with …

A partial-bounce-back lattice Boltzmann model has been used to simulate flow on a lattice
consisting of cubic voxels with a locally varying effective percolating fraction. The effective …

Micropores are the primary sites of methane adsorption in coal, and the heterogeneous
mesostructures of coal create the non-uniform distribution of the micropores in coal. Using a …

This paper outlines the data-constrained microstructure modelling (DCM) approach to
determine microscopic distributions of pores (voids), quartz and calcite in sandstone. The …