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Dynamic seepage of nitrogen through coal briquettes |
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Dynamic seepage of nitrogen through coal briquettes Author: M. Wierzbicki
This paper concerns the phenomenon of nitrogen seepage through coal briquettes, made from coal dust of grain size smaller than 0.2 mm. The porosity of the briquettes was from 20% to 30%. Seepage took place under average pressures of 0.2-1 MPa. The experiments revealed an existing relationship between the average seepage pressure and the seepage coefficient according to Darcy's Law. To preserve the relationship between the seepage parameters and the seepage conditions, two elements were applied in the form of a non-linear, phenomenological equation. A new equation, with two coefficients, which describe the coal briquette/nitrogen seepage process is presented. The coefficients, in the conditions being studied, are inter-connected and for this reason the equation presented becomes a singled parameter equation. The paper describes the dynamic seepage of nitrogen through coal briquettes, earlier saturated with gas. Seepage was caused by reducing the gas pressure in the space in front of the briquette face. The pressure fell down from pore pressure to atmospheric pressure. The rate of decrease of nitrogen pressure at the front of the briquettes was not constant over the whole series of experiments. The equation described the course of dynamic seepage related to its form in stationary conditions. Good conformity between the experimental results and the phenomenological solution in both stationary and non stationary conditions was observed. The values of the parameters of the equation used fitted the process under stationary and dynamic conditions. In both cases very similar values were obtained.
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2011