Contribution of the Dusty Gas Model to Permeability/Diffusion Tests on Partially Saturated Clay Rocks
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- 作者：P. F. Boulin (123) pierre.boulin@ifpen.fr
R. Angulo-Jaramillo (24)
J. Talandier (1)
P. Berne (3)
J. F. Daian (2) - 关键词：Dusty Gas Model – ; Klinkenberg effect – ; Knudsen diffusion – ; Low permeability
- 刊名：Transport in Porous Media
- 出版时间：July 2012
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：69_01693913
- 类别：ch
- 卷：93
- 期：3
- 页码：609-634
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
Gas transfer experiments on claystone and numerical simulations have been conducted to enhance the knowledge of gas transport in nuclear waste repositories in the Callovo-Oxfordian clay formation in Bure, France. Laboratory Gas transfer experiments were performed with a specific device dedicated to very low permeability measurement (10−23 to 10−20 m2). Experiments were performed on both dry and close to saturation claystone. The Dusty Gas Model, based on multi-component gas transfer equations with Knudsen diffusion, was used to describe the experimental results. The parameters obtained are the effective permeability, the Knudsen diffusion (Klinkenberg effect) and molecular diffusion coefficients and the porosity accessible to gas. Numerical simulations were carried with various boundary conditions and for different gases (helium vs hydrogen) and were compared with experiments to test the reliability of the model parameters and to better understand the mechanisms involved in clays close to saturation. The numerical simulation fitted the experimental data well whereas simpler models cannot describe the complexity of the Knudsen/Klinkenberg effects. Permeabilities lie between 10−22 and 10−20 m2. Claystones close to saturation have an accessible porosity to gas transfer that is lower than 0.1–1%of the porosity. Analysis of the Klinkenberg effect suggests that this accessible pore network should be made of 50–200 nm diameter pores. It represents pore networks accessible at capillary pressure lower than 4 MPa.