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Study on Hydraulic Fracturing in Transverse Isotropic Rock Using Bonded Particle Model

입자결합모델을 이용한 횡등방성 암석에서의 수압파쇄 특성 연구

  • 정재웅 (서울대학교 공과대학 에너지시스템공학부) ;
  • 허찬 (서울대학교 공과대학 에너지시스템공학부) ;
  • 전석원 (서울대학교 공과대학 에너지시스템공학부)
  • Received : 2013.11.18
  • Accepted : 2013.12.16
  • Published : 2013.12.31
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Abstract

Hydraulic fracturing is used as a method for promoting the fluid flow in the rock and, in the energy field such as geothermal development and the development of sales gas, many studies has been actively conducted. In many cases, hydraulic fracturing is not performed in isotropic rock and especially in the case of sedimentary rocks, hydraulic fracturing is conducted in the transverse isotropic rock. The direction of the crack growth on hydraulic fracturing does not necessarily coincides with the direction of maximum principal stress in the transverse isotropic rock. Therefore, in this study, bonded particle model with hydro-mechanical coupling analysis was adopted for analyzing the characteristics of hydraulic fracturing in transverse isotropic rock. In addition, experiments of hydraulic fracturing were conducted in laboratory-scale to verify the validity of numerical analysis. In this study, the crack growth and crack patterns showed significant differences depending on the viscosity of injection fluid, the angle of bedding plane and the influence of anisotropy. In the case of transverse isotropic model, the shear crack growth due to hydraulic fracturing appeared prominently.

수압파쇄는 암반에서 유체의 흐름을 촉진시키기 위한 방법으로 사용되며 지열개발, 세일가스의 개발 등 최근 에너지 분야에서 그 어느 때 보다 활발한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 수압파쇄의 대상이 되는 암반은 등방성을 갖지 않는 경우가 대부분이며 일부 퇴적암층에서는 횡등방성 암반에서 수압파쇄가 이루어진다. 횡등방성 암반에서는 수압파쇄에서 발생하는 균열의 성장 방향이 반드시 최대주응력 방향과 일치하지 않으며 이방성 구조에 따라 변화하게 된다. 그러므로 이 연구에서는 입자결합모델을 이용하여 횡등방성 암석에서의 수압파쇄 특성을 고찰하고 분석하고자 하였다. 또한 실험실 규모의 수압파쇄 실험을 실시하여 수치해석 결과의 타당성을 분석하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 가압되는 유체의 점도 및 층리면의 각도 그리고 이방성에 의한 영향으로 균열의 성장 및 균열 패턴에 큰 차이를 보였으며, 횡등방성 모델의 경우 전단균열에 의한 수압파쇄 균열의 성장이 우세한 것으로 나타났다.

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