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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2011.44.2.171

Analyzing Effective Thermal Conductivity of Rocks Using Structural Models  

Cha, Jang-Hwan (Department of Geoenvironmental Sciences, Kongju National University)
Koo, Min-Ho (Department of Geoenvironmental Sciences, Kongju National University)
Keehm, Young-Seuk (Department of Geoenvironmental Sciences, Kongju National University)
Lee, Young-Min (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.44, no.2, 2011 , pp. 171-180 More about this Journal
Abstract
For 21 rock samples consisting of granite, sandstone and the effective thermal conductivity (TC) was measured with the LFA-447 Nanoflash, and mineralogical compositions were also determined from XRD analysis. The structural models were used to examine the effects of quartz content and the size of minerals on TC of rocks. The experimental results showed that TC of rocks was strongly related to quartz content with $R^2$ value of 0.75. Therefore, the proposed regression model can be a useful tool for an approximate estimation of TC only from quartz content. Some samples with similar values of quartz content, however, illustrated great differences in TC, presumably caused by differences in the size of minerals. An analysis from structural models showed that TC of rocks with fine-grained minerals was likely to fall in the region between Series and EMT model, and it moved up to ME and Parallel model as the size of minerals increased. This progressive change of structural models implies that change of TC depending on the size of minerals is possibly related to the scale of experiments; TC was measured from a disk sample with a thickness of 3 mm. Therefore, in case of measurements with a thin sample, TC can be overestimated as compared to the real value in the field scale. The experimental data illustrated that the scale effect was more pronounced for rocks with bigger size of minerals. Thus, it is worthwhile to remember that using a measured TC as a representative value for the real field can be misleading when applied to many geothermal problems.
Keywords
effective thermal conductivity; structural models; rocks; quartz content; scale effect;
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