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Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1848217102
ISBN13: 9781848217102
Publisher: Wiley-Iste
Published: Jan 11 2016
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a new fracturing technique that should be considered as a potential alternative, or a companion technique, to hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs and low permeability rock masses. As opposed to hydraulic fracturing which generates a few numbers of large cracks, electro-hydraulic fracturing induces diffuse micro-cracking and fragmentation of rocks. Laboratory tests demonstrate that increases of permeability by two orders of magnitude can be reached, without major cracking in tested specimens. This book discusses the principles of this new technique, reports experiments which have been developed is order to prove the concept and finally describes the numerical model from which the potentialities of this technique in representative reservoir conditions can be assessed.

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