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标题：Experimental Study on the Fracture Behaviors Effect of Stress Conditions on the Fracture of Shale by Super-Critical Carbon Dioxide
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作者：Guojun Liu ; Yuan Zhao ; Yugang Cheng 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Energy Research
电子版ISSN：2296-598X
出版年度：2021
卷号：9
DOI：10.3389/fenrg.2021.763052
语种：English
出版社：Frontiers Media S.A.
摘要：This paper examines the fracture propagation problems of supercritical carbon fracturing in low permeability shale. Acoustic emission monitoring and computerized tomography (CT) scanning methods were used to study the influence of initial stress ratios on crack initiation and propagation crack in fracturing experiments. The results show that crack initiation pressure and crack morphology are very different under different stress conditions. Under the condition of constant confining pressure, when the initial stress ratio λ = 1, cracks are mainly in a horizontal direction; while for an initial stress ratio of λ < 1, cracks are mainly in a vertical direction. With the decrease of λ, crack initiation pressure, reopening pressure, and fracturing liquid volume also decrease, and crack propagation is not as obvious. According to CT scanning results, the crack propagation direction is the same as the maximum principal stress, and fewer cracks are initiated with a smaller initial stress ratio. Based on the acoustic emission characteristics, the fracturing process (including crack initiation, propagation, and closure), can be divided into three stages: 1) the pressure accumulation in the wellbore, 2) Pump Closure; and 3) crack reopening. This study provides the basis for a reasonable selection of shale gas fracturing formation and geo-sequestration of greenhouse gas CO2.