Experimental study on carbon isotopic fractionation of methane flow
Received date: 2021-03-15
Revised date: 2021-07-23
Online published: 2021-11-30
Supported by
The National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2016ZX05060)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41690133)
The transport of shale gas through porous media can be affected by diffusion, advection, and adsorption-desorption, and the isotopic molecules of methane (13CH4, 12CH4) are different in adsorption affinity and diffusion coefficients, so carbon isotope fractionation occurs with these processes. In order to clarify the mechanism of carbon isotope fractionation in methane transport, one-dimensional flow-through experimental device and on-line isotope monitoring method are developed. By means of the carbon isotope fractionation comparison experiment of methane passing through illite-packed column and the empty column, the diffusion effect caused by concentration gradient in the process of methane flow being the important factor of isotopic fractionation are demonstrated. An analytical solution of coupled advection-diffusion equation is developed to fit well the carbon isotope data and interpret the results from each experiment of empty column. In the experiments of illite packed column, it is found that the carbon isotopes of methane in the initial stage are significantly negative shift compared with the original value, and then the carbon isotope compositions of methane rapidly become heavier, and the maximum relative value relative to the original value can reach 5‰. After then the carbon isotopes of methane becomes lighter gradually to the original values. It is found that the curve of isotope composition change shows an obvious inflection point, which are affected by the combination result of diffusion and adsorption-desorption. It also reveals that methane acts on the adsorption sites of solid molecular sieves in the process of flow, showing obvious reverse isotope effect. This is the result of the interaction of diffusion and adsorption-desorption, and it reveals that methane has an obvious inverse isotope effect over the adsorption sites of molecular sieves in the transport.
Cheng TAO , Jie WANG , Baojian SHEN , Lingjie YU , Huamin YANG . Experimental study on carbon isotopic fractionation of methane flow[J]. Natural Gas Geoscience, 2021 , 32(11) : 1709 -1713 . DOI: 10.11764/j.issn.1672-1926.2021.07.015
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