Abstract:
To investigate the occurrence characteristics of CH
4, CO
2, and H
2S in gas-fat coal, reveal their adsorption kinetic processes in gas-fat coal at different temperatures and the microscopic mechanism of competitive adsorption among the three gases under different volume fractions, the competitive adsorption of binary mixtures (CH
4/H
2S and CO
2/H
2S) in coal seams was studied using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) and molecular dynamics (MD) methods under conditions of 273.15-313.15 K and 0-3 MPa. The influences of volume fractions on gas adsorption capacity, isosteric heat of adsorption, energy distribution, selectivity coefficient, and probability density distribution were analyzed. The results show that the order of gas adsorption capacity in coal from high to low is H
2S > CO
2 > CH
4. The adsorption kinetics of CH
4, CO
2, and H
2S agree well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, with average fitting degrees of 0.993 0, 0.999 7, and 0.999 8, respectively. At adsorption equilibrium, the adsorption capacity gradually decreases with increasing temperature, while the second-order adsorption rate constant
k2 first decreases and then increases with rising temperature. When the volume fraction of CH
4 increases from 10% to 90%, the saturated adsorption capacity of CH
4 rises from 1.86 cm
3/g to 7.89 cm
3/g, while that of H
2S decreases from 41.54 cm
3/g to 28.71 cm
3/g. As the volume fraction of CO
2 increases from 10% to 90%, the saturated adsorption capacity of CO
2 increases from 6.64 cm
3/g to 26.66 cm
3/g, whereas that of H
2S decreases from 36.17 cm
3/g to 10.86 cm
3/g. The adsorption selectivity coefficients of the CH
4/H
2S and CO
2/H
2S binary systems decay exponentially with increasing equilibrium pressure: they decrease rapidly at first, then slowly, and finally tend to be stable.