Pilecki, Z.; Hildebrandt, R.; Krawiec, K.; Pilecka, E.; Lubosik, Z.; Łątka, T. Assessment of Combustion Cavern Geometry in Underground Coal Gasification Process with the Use of Borehole Ground-Penetrating Radar. Energies2023, 16, 6734.
Pilecki, Z.; Hildebrandt, R.; Krawiec, K.; Pilecka, E.; Lubosik, Z.; Łątka, T. Assessment of Combustion Cavern Geometry in Underground Coal Gasification Process with the Use of Borehole Ground-Penetrating Radar. Energies 2023, 16, 6734.
Pilecki, Z.; Hildebrandt, R.; Krawiec, K.; Pilecka, E.; Lubosik, Z.; Łątka, T. Assessment of Combustion Cavern Geometry in Underground Coal Gasification Process with the Use of Borehole Ground-Penetrating Radar. Energies2023, 16, 6734.
Pilecki, Z.; Hildebrandt, R.; Krawiec, K.; Pilecka, E.; Lubosik, Z.; Łątka, T. Assessment of Combustion Cavern Geometry in Underground Coal Gasification Process with the Use of Borehole Ground-Penetrating Radar. Energies 2023, 16, 6734.
Abstract
In this study, the shape and size of a combustion cavity with a fracture zone in the gasified coal seam was determined with use control boreholes and a ground-penetrating radar (BGPR) test. The underground coal gasification (UCG) field-scale experiment was performed in Carboniferous strata in coal seam 501 at a depth of approx. 460 m in the Wieczorek hard-coal mine in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland. After the termination of the UCG reactor, five coring boreholes were drilled to identify the geometry of the resulting combustion cavity and the impact of the UCG process on the surrounding rock mass. Borehole ground-penetrating radar measurements were performed using a 100 MHz antenna in three boreholes with a length of about 40-50 m. This enabled the identification of the boundaries of the combustion cavity and the fracture zone in the coal seam. The fracture zones of rock layers and lithological borders near the control borehole were also depicted. As a result, the cavity was estimated to have a length of around 32 m, a width of around 7 m and a height of around 5 m. The analyses performed with the control boreholes and the BGPR provided sufficient information to determine the geometry of the combustion cavity and the fracture zone.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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