Modeling the mechanical response of gas hydrate reservoirs in triaxial stress space

被引:62
作者
Wu, Yang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Li, Neng [1 ]
Hyodo, Masayuki [3 ]
Gu, Meixiang [1 ]
Cui, Jie [1 ]
Spencer, Billie F. [4 ]
机构
[1] Guangzhou Univ, Sch Civil Engn, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[2] Minist Land & Resources, Key Lab Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[3] Yamaguchi Univ, Grad Sch Sci & Technol Innovat, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
[4] Univ Illinois, Newmark Civil Engn Lab, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
基金
日本学术振兴会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Gas hydrate; Mechanical property; Bonding stress; Constitutive model; Hydrate saturation; UNDRAINED SHEAR-STRENGTH; METHANE-HYDRATE; BEARING SAND; HYDROGEN-PRODUCTION; CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; BEHAVIOR; DILATANCY; FINES; DISSOCIATION; SEDIMENTS;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.08.119
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Exploitation of gas from deep-sea methane hydrate-bearing layers might lead to some geological disasters, including marine landslides and excessive settlement of marine ground. The first offshore gas production tests for methane hydrate-bearing sediments were carried out in eastern Nankai Trough. However, knowledge on mechanical behavior of gas hydrate reservoirs with similar gradation and minerology component to the marine sediment is still insufficient. Consequently, proper modeling of geomechanical properties of methane hydrate-bearing sediments is crucial for reservoir simulation and deep ocean ground stability analysis for long-term gas production in the future. This study conducted a series of triaxial shear tests to examine the shear response of methane hydrate-bearing sediments with a similar grading curve and minerology components to the hydrate-rich sediments in Nankai Trough. The test results demonstrated that the presence of hydrate mass between sand grains altered the stress-strain pattern from strain-hardening to postpeak strain-softening. A simple constitutive model based on several empirical relationships of granular materials is proposed to describe the stress-strain relationship of methane hydrate-bearing sediments under triaxial stress condition. This model can reproduce the enhancement of shear strength, initial stiffness, and dilation behavior of methane hydrate-bearing sediments containing different amounts of fines content with a rise in the methane hydrate saturation at a wide range of effective confining pressures. The numerical results indicate that the parameter A associated with initial stiffness of stress-strain curve and the parameter related with dilation properties are jointly governed by the confining pressure, fines content, and hydrate saturation. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:26698 / 26710
页数:13
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