Author:
Li Tao,Zhang Qiang,Yin Qian,Dai Wanli,Gu Jiayu
Abstract
AbstractTo understand the influence of temperature on the flow characteristics of fractured granite, high-temperature cyclic thermal treatment and flow tests on the fractured rock sample with different joint roughness coefficients and intact rock samples were conducted. The larger confining pressure and larger joint roughness coefficient will increase the resistance of fluid flow and affect the flow characteristics of the fluid. With the temperature increasing, the aperture of the fractures, the number of micro-fractures, and micropores increase which forms a large number of new connected hydraulic channels in the matrix. Forchheimer's law and Izbash equation can well describe the nonlinear flow characteristics, and the fitting coefficients are greater than 0.99. As the increasing temperature, the slope of the curve between the volumetric flow rate and pressure gradient gradually decreases, and the coefficients in Forchheimer's law and the Izbash equation decrease. The transmissivity decrease with the increasing Reynolds number and the change range of that increase with the increasing temperature. When the temperature is at the lower level (T = 200 ~ 600 °C), the contribution of split fracture to the permeability is greater than that of the matrix. When the temperature continuously increases to 800 °C, the contribution of the matrix to the permeability gradually rises and then exceeds that of split fracture. The results indicate that 400 °C is the critical temperature, after which the flow characteristics of fractured granite after high-temperature cycling change more obviously.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Economic Geology,General Energy,Geophysics,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Cited by
3 articles.
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