Coalbed Methane: Scientific, Environmental and Economic Evaluation

M. Mastalerz, M. V. Glikson, Suzanne D. Golding (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

592 Seiten

1999
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-5698-1 (ISBN)

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Coalbed gas has been considered a hazard since the early 19th century when the first mine gas explosions occurred in the United States in 1810 and France in 1845. In eastern Australia methane-related mine disasters occurred late in the 19th century with hundreds of lives lost in New South Wales, and as recently as 1995 in Queensland's Bowen Basin. Ventilation and gas drainage technologies are now in practice. However, coalbed methane recently is becoming more recognized as a potential source of energy; rather than emitting this gas to the atmosphere during drainage of gassy mines it can be captured and utilized. Both economic and environmental concerns have sparked this impetus to capture coalbed methane. The number of methane utilization projects has increased in the United States in recent years as a result, to a large extent, of development in technology in methane recovery from coal seams. Between 1994 and 1997, the number of mines in Alabama, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia recovering and utilizing methane increased from 1 0 to 17. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that close to 49 billion cubic feet (Bet) of methane was recovered in 1996, meaning that this amount was not released into the atmosphere. It is estimated that in the same year total emissions of methane equaled 45. 7 Bcf. Other coal mines are being investigated at present, many ofwhich appear to be promising for the development of cost-effective gas recovery.

1. Coal seam gas in Queensland from there to where?.- 2. Developing a new coal seam gas regime for Queensland.- 3. The Fairview coal seam gasfield, Comet Ridge, Queensland, Australia.- 4. Cost benefit analysis of coalbed methane recovery activities in Australia and New Zealand — Implications for commercial projects and government policy.- 5. The use of Monte Carlo analysis to evaluate prospective coalbed methane properties.- 1. Defining coalbed methane exploration fairways: An example from the Piceance Basin, Rocky Mountain Foreland, Western United States.- 2. Improving coal gas recovery with microbially enhanced coalbed methane.- 3. Coalbed methane exploration in structurally complex terrain: A balance between tectonics and hydrogeology.- 4. Coalbed methane exploration results of the Liulin Permit in China.- 5. Residual gas content of coal in the light of observations from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland.- 1. Coal composition and mode of maturation, a determining factor in the quantifying hydrocarbon species generated.- 2. The relationship between gas in coal seams and artificial coalification gas under hydrothermal pressure systems.- 3. Coalbed gas content and gas undersaturation.- 4. Higher hydrocarbon gases in southern Sydney Basin coals.- 5. Source and timing of coal seam gas generation in Bowen Basin coals.- 6. The development of an understanding of the origins of the Sydney and Bowen Basin gases.- 7. Mineral-catalyzed formation of natural gas during coal maturation.- 1. The role of in-situ stress in coalbed methane exploration.- 2. Mechanical and thermal control of cleating and shearing in coal: Examples from the Alabama coalbed methane fields, USA.- 3. The microstructure of pore space in coals in different rank.- 4. Coalbed characteristics of the MistMountain Formation, Southern Canadian Cordillera: Effect of shearing and oxidation.- 5. Decrease in desorption intensity of coalbed methane due to hydraulic fracturing.- 1. Coal seam gas emissions from Ostrava-Karvina collieries in the Czech Republic during mining and after mines closure.- 2. Countermeasures and researches for prevention of methane emission into the atmosphere in a Japanese coal mine.- 1. Modeling the hydrothermal generation of coals and coal seam gas.- 2. Simulating the conductive and hydrothermal maturation of coal and coal seam gas in the Bowen Basin, Australia.- 3. Modelling of petroleum formation associated with heat transfer due to hydrodynamic processes.- 1. Floral influences on the petroleum source potential of New Zealand coals.- 2. The influence of depositional and maturation factors on the three-dimensional distribution of coal rank indicators and hydrocarbon source potential in the Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales.- 3. The physics and efficiency of petroleum expulsion from coal.- 4. Jurassic coals and carbonaceous mudstones: the oil source of the Junggar and Turpan-Hami Basins, China.- 1. Examples of the methane exchange between litho- and atmosphere: The coal bearing Ruhr Basin, Germany.- 2. Desorption as a criterion for the estimation of methane content in a coal seam.- 3. Grading of reserves and resources of coalbed gas in China.- 4. Anhydride theory: A new theory of petroleum and coal generation.- 5. Looking back on development history of coalbed methane in China.- 6. The study of the influence of pressure on coalbed permeability.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.1999
Zusatzinfo	IX, 592 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-7923-5698-5 / 0792356985
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-5698-1 / 9780792356981
Zustand	Neuware