Journal
FRACTALS-COMPLEX GEOMETRY PATTERNS AND SCALING IN NATURE AND SOCIETY
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X18400169
Keywords
Marine Shale; Continental Shale; Nitrogen Gas Adsorption-Desorption; Fractal Dimension; Methane Adsorption
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Fractal characterization offers a quantitative evaluation on the heterogeneity of pore structure which greatly affects gas adsorption and transportation in shales. To compare the fractal characteristics between marine and continental shales, nine samples from the Lower Silurian Longmaxi formation in the Sichuan basin and nine from the Middle Jurassic Dameigou formation in the Qaidam basin were collected. Reservoir properties and fractal dimensions were characterized for all the collected samples. In this study, fractal dimensions were originated from the Frenkel-Halsey-Hill (FHH) model with N-2 adsorption data. Compared to continental shale, marine shale has greater values of quartz content, porosity, specific surface area and total pore volume but lower level of clay minerals content, permeability, average pore diameter and methane adsorption capacity. The quartz in marine shale is mostly associated with biogenic origin, while that in continental shale is mainly due to terrigenous debris. The N-2 adsorption-desorption isotherms exhibit that marine shale has fewer inkbottle-shaped pores but more plate-like and slit-shaped pores than continental shale. Two fractal dimensions (D-1 and D-2) were obtained at P/P-o of 0-0.5 and 0.5-1. The dimension D-2 is commonly greater than D1, suggesting that larger pores (diameter >similar to 4 nm) have more complex structures than small pores (diameter
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