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Resistivity Monitoring of Saturated Rock Cores at Room Temperature

수포화 암석코어의 상온 전기비저항 모니터링

  • Lee, Sang Kyu (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)) ;
  • Lee, Tae Jong (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)) ;
  • Yi, Myeong-Jong (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
  • Received : 2015.07.09
  • Accepted : 2015.07.27
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

A long-term resistivity monitoring system has been developed for saturated cores in room temperature and humidity condition. A 3-channel water-pump continuously drops the water onto the top of saturated core sample surrounded by shrinkable tube as well as on the paper filters of the electrodes at both sides of the core sample, by which one can monitor the resistivity changes with maintaining full saturation of the rock core for a week or longer. Monitoring the resistivity changes has been performed with 3 kinds of rock samples including biotite gneiss, andesitic tuff, and shale for 9 days using the system. Consequently, it is proposed two hypothesis that conversion speed of temperature coefficient has close relation to the thermal properties of the rock sample and that the ratio of resistance between dry and saturated conditions for a rock sample can be related to the effective porosity of the sample. The ratio between dry and saturated resistance for the three rock types are 48, 705, and 2, while effective porosity was 3.7%, 3.3%, and 13.0%, respectively.

상온 상습 환경에서 수포화 암석코어의 전기비저항을 장시간 모니터링 할 수 있는 장치를 구현하였다. 양쪽 금속망 전극에 덧댄 종이필터와 암석코어를 감싼 열수축튜브의 상부 중앙 외피면에 3-채널 펌프로 물을 충분히 공급하면서 전기저항을 측정하면 암석코어의 수포화 상태를 유지하면서 일주일 이상 전기비저항을 모니터링 할 수 있다. 이 장치를 이용하여 흑운모 편마암, 안산암질 응회암, 셰일의 3종류 암석코어의 수포화 전기저항을 9일간 모니터링 한 결과 다음과 같은 2가지 가설을 제시할 수 있었다. 즉, 전기비저항 온도계수의 수렴 속도는 열물성과 관련이 있을 것이라는 것과 건조 저항을 수포화 때의 평균 저항으로 나눈 건조/수포화 저항비는 유효공극률과 상관될 것이라는 것이다. 실제로, 3가지 암석의 건조/수포화 저항비는 각각 48, 705, 2로 나타났고 이때 각각의 유효공극률은 3.7%, 3.3%, 13.0%이었다.

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