Coalbed methane (CBM) drainage in underground coal mining is of significance to
guarantee mining process safety and bring valuable environmental benefits, as the drainage …

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 …

Microwave heating contributes to coal fracturing and gas desorption. However, problems of
low penetration depth, local overheating and fracture closure exist. Coal demineralisation by …

As a clean energy resource, coalbed methane (CBM) has drawn worldwide attention.
However, the CBM reservoir has strong adsorption capacity and low permeability and thus …

Using the density functional theory (DFT) and grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC)
simulation, the adsorptions of each of an individual gas molecule (CH 4, CO 2, H 2 O or N 2) …

Coal has a complex pore network, which affects the reserves and production capacity of
coalbed methane. To analyze the feasibility of coal seam heat injection mining and improve …

Based on the advantages of steam in applications of coal gasification, drying of low-rank
coals, and heavy oil recovery, steam is considered to have great potential in the recovery of …

The aims of this research are to quantitatively evaluate the complexity of the pore structure in
coal frozen with liquid nitrogen (LN 2) and then study the influence of the modified pore …

Realized by the conversion of the electromagnetic energy into thermal energy, microwave
heating can be a sound method to enhance coalbed methane (CBM) recovery. Although the …

Heat injection is an effective technique to enhance unconventional oil and gas recovery. As
an excellent heat transfer medium, steam has a great potential for coalbed methane (CBM) …