Estimating methane content of bituminous coalbeds from adsorption data

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• Personal Author:
  Kim, Ann G.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  "The Bureau of Mines estimated the methane content of a coal, which depends primarily upon rank and pressure, from the adsorption equation V = kpn, where k and n are constants related to rank. By incorporating corrections for moisture, ash, and temperature, and estimating pressure and temperature as a function of depth, the methane content of coal in place can be estimated from the following equation: V = (100--% moisture--% ash)/100, (0.75 [ko (0096h)no-- 0.14(1.8H/100 + 11)]. Values calculated with this equation generally are in reasonable agreement with direct determinations. By assuming a standard moisture and ash content, and using the hydrostatic head to estimate pressure, a graph of rank and depth versus gas content was constructed. Although estimated values were consistently high for several high-volatile bituminous coals from an area where the pressure is known to be less than hydrostatic, the estimated methane content for most coals shows reasonable agreement with values determined by the direct method." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 10000612
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10000612
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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