Abstract:
In order to investigate the competitive adsorption pattern of N
2/CH
4 gases in coal under thermal and displacement effects, the study is based on the macromolecular model of bituminous coal, the adsorption behaviors of methane molecules, water molecules and fracturing fluid molecules under heated nitrogen injection are simulated by molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods, to investigate the interaction energy between fracturing fluid and coal surface molecules, and the microscopic laws of different gas injection temperatures, water contents and pore diameters on the competitive adsorption of N
2/CH
4. The results show that: the interaction between fracturing fluid molecules and coal molecules is 18.469 kJ/mol, the van der Waals interaction force between the systems is 23.732 kJ/mol, the electrostatic interaction force is -598.125 kJ/mol, and the stability of the system between the fracturing fluid molecules and the coal molecules is poor, which provides conditions for the injection of heated nitrogen to increase the seepage of the de-blocking; in the process of heated nitrogen injection, along with the increase of temperature, the adsorption capacity of N
2 relative to CH
4 in the model is enhanced; the increase in water content leads to a significant decrease in the adsorption of both CH
4 and N
2, and the adsorption capacity of CH
4 remains stronger than that of N
2 in the model; pore size has a significant effect on N
2 adsorption, the dominance of CH
4 begins to decrease with the increase of pore size, and the effect of N
2 replacement to drive out CH
4 is obvious when the pore size is 4 nm.