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Modeling of Bulk Kerogen Porosity: Methods for Control and Characterization
Abstract
Shale gas is an unconventional source of energy, which has attracted a lot of attention during the last years.Kerogen is a prime constituent of shale formations and plays a crucial role in shale gas technology. Significant experimental effort in the study of shales and kerogen has produced a broad diversity of experimentally determined structural and thermodynamicproperties even for samples of the same well. Moreover, proposed methods reported in the literature for constructing realistic bulk kerogen configurations have not been thoroughly investigated. One of the most important characteristics of kerogens is their porosity, due to its direct connection with their transport properties and its potential as discriminating and classifying metricbetween samples. In this study, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to study the porosity of model kerogens. Theporosity is controlled effectively with systematic variations of the number and the size of dummy LJ particles that are used during the construction of system’s configuration. The porosity of each sample is characterized with a newly proposed algorithm for analyzing the free space of amorphous materials. It is found that, with moderately sized configurations, it is possible to construct percolated pores of interest in the shale gas industry.

Authors
Manolis Vasileiadis, Loukas D. Peristeras, Konstantinos D. Papavasileiou, and Ioannis G. Economou

Journal
Energy Fuels, 2017, 31, 6004−6018

Link
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00626

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