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2-D Modeling of Underground Coal Gasification(UCG)S. Srikantiah1, G. Samdani1 , S. Mahajani1, A. Ganesh1, P. Aghalayam2
17th October 2013
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India2 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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Agenda•What is UCG?
•Model Geometry
•Reactions and Governing Equations
•COMSOL Modeling
•Results and Discussions
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What is UCG and Why UCG?
Schematic of the UCG process - CRIP geometry
Advantages Disadvantages
Environmental
Transportation
Deep Coals
CCS
Complexity
Subsidence
Contamination
Exploration
The successful application of such a process would provide a low to medium heating gas(80-250 kJ/mol), depending on whether air or a mixture of oxygen - steam is used.
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What is UCG and Why UCG?UCG can help meet the rising energy demand by utilizing coal resources that otherwise would be too deep, or of poor quality, or simply not economical to mine.
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Why modeling of UCG? A cavity is formed; grows three dimensionally
Complex process; simplified process model needed
Develop a two-dimensional model of the cavity
Analyse cavity growth and product gas composition
This model can foresee the growth of the cavity even after it has hit the overburden, which is the reality for the UCG of thin coal seam.
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Agenda•What is UCG?
•Model Geometry
•Reactions and Governing Equations
•COMSOL Modeling
•Results and Discussions
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UCG Process Model Geometry
Figure 2 2-D Geometry of UCG process (COMSOL model)
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Agenda•What is UCG?
•Model Geometry
•Reactions and Governing Equations
•COMSOL Modeling
•Results and Discussions
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Reactions in UCGOxidation of Char - + → ( )Steam gasification of Char -+ → + ( )Boudouard reaction -+ → ( )Water-gas shift reaction -+ ↔ + ( )Oxidation of Hydrogen gas- + ⁄ → ( )Oxidation of Carbon monoxide-+ ⁄ → ( )
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Governing Equations1) Brinkman’s Equation (Modified Darcy’s Law) . ( ) + + . =.
Where, = 2) Mass balance of Solid Char . =.
Where, = − − −
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Governing Equations3) Mass balance of Gas phase species . + . − + . =.
- , , , ,4) Heat transfer in the porous media .( ) + . ( , ) = . − + (∆ ∗ )
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Agenda•What is UCG?
•Model Geometry
•Reactions and Governing Equations
•COMSOL Modeling
•Results and Discussions
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COMSOL Modeling• Add Physics
o Chemical Species Transport – ‘Transport of Dilute Species’ o Fluid flow – ‘Porous Media and Sub surface Flow’ – ‘Brinkman’o Heat Transfer – ‘Heat Transfer in Porous Media’
• Mesho ‘User Controlled’ sequence typeo Maximum and Minimum element size of 0.03cm and 1.6e-4cm each
• 2 Study Stepso Stationary – Fully coupled PARDISO solver; Brinkman Equationso Time Dependent – Segregated PARDISO solver; All models
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Agenda•What is UCG?
•Model Geometry
•Reactions and Governing Equations
•COMSOL Modeling
•Results and Discussions
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Figure 3 : Concentration of Char (Cavity growth) from time = 0 to 24 hours during UCG
Results and Discussion
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Results and Discussion
Figure 4 Concentration of Oxygen(O2 ) at time = 2, 6, 11 and 24 hours during UCG
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Results and Discussion
Figure 5 Conc. of Carbon dioxide(CO2) at time = 2, 6, 11 and 24 hours during UCG
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Side and Top view of the Cavity
Figure 6 Shape of cavity in top and side view at t=24 hours
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Conclusion & Future Work• Detailed 2-D model for the UCG process has been developed• Six (post drying and pyrolysis) reactions have been
considered• Predicted Cavity shape matches with experimental results• The two 2-D model results provide a 3-D perspective
• Parametric analysisoSteam to Oxygen ratiooFlow rate at inlet
• The effect of geometry scale up is being analysed so as to study the possibility of extrapolation to any size of coal bed and inlet/outlet well positions during UCG
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Conclusion & Future WorkThis complete UCG COMSOL model is the 2-D top view and
side view models with all reactions, parameters, geometry, scales and meshes
The model can verify experimental results and substantiate the MATLAB process model.
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Thank You
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Back-up Slides (Q&A)
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Reactions Kinetics+ → (i)+ → + (ii)+ → (iii)These three are heterogeneous reactions, i.e. solid – gas reactions representing various oxidation and gasification reactions.
The rates for Eq.(i)-(iii) are influenced by 3 mechanisms: • Mass-transport limitation from bulk-gas to solid surface • Limitation in mass-transport in any internal particle porosity/ash
layer • Kinetic-limitations for reactions at solid surface
Here, the latter two are lumped into one effective chemical rate expression. Otherwise, intra-particle balances would need to be written.
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Reaction KineticsEq.(i) –(iii)• Total rate can thus be obtained by taking the external
transport in series with the lumped(kinetic+internal transport) rate = 1(1 (1 − ) + 1 )
• - effective chemical rate evaluated using gas compositions of bulk gas
• - mass-transfer rate of limiting reactant
Standard form of the effective chemical rate -= ∗ exp − ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 1 − 3.74( )Standard form of mass transfer rate -= ∗
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Reaction Kinetics+ ↔ + (iv)This is the water-gas shift reaction which is reversible and occurs only in the gas phase.= − = −
+ ⁄ → (v)+ ⁄ → (vi)
If < , ; = =If > , ; = ∗
; = ∗Where, = ∗ , for > 650
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Rates of all reactions
Figure 6 Rates of all 6 reactions at time = 11 hours