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@ARTICLE{Bahadur:843901,
author = {Bahadur, Jitendra and Ruppert, Leslie F. and Pipich,
Vitaliy and Sakurovs, Richard and Melnichenko, Yuri B.},
title = {{P}orosity of the {M}arcellus {S}hale: {A} contrast
matching small-angle neutron scattering study},
journal = {International journal of coal geology},
volume = {188},
issn = {0166-5162},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-01428},
pages = {156 - 164},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Neutron scattering techniques were used to determine the
effect of mineral matter on the accessibility of water and
toluene to pores in the Devonian Marcellus Shale. Three
Marcellus Shale samples, representing quartz-rich,
clay-rich, and carbonate-rich facies, were examined using
contrast matching small-angle neutron scattering (CM-SANS)
at ambient pressure and temperature. Contrast matching
compositions of H2O, D2O and toluene, deuterated toluene
were used to probe open and closed pores of these three
shale samples. Results show that although the mean pore
radius was approximately the same for all three samples, the
fractal dimension of the quartz-rich sample was higher than
for the clay-rich and carbonate-rich samples, indicating
different pore size distributions among the samples. The
number density of pores was highest in the clay-rich sample
and lowest in the quartz-rich sample. Contrast matching with
water and toluene mixtures shows that the accessibility of
pores to water and toluene also varied among the samples. In
general, water accessed approximately $70–80\%$ of the
larger pores (>80 nm radius) in all three samples. At
smaller pore sizes (~5–80 nm radius), the fraction of
accessible pores decreases. The lowest accessibility to both
fluids is at pore throat size of ~25 nm radii with the
quartz-rich sample exhibiting lower accessibility than the
clay- and carbonate-rich samples. The mechanism for this
behaviour is unclear, but because the mineralogy of the
three samples varies, it is likely that the inaccessible
pores in this size range are associated with organics and
not a specific mineral within the samples. At even smaller
pore sizes (~<2.5 nm radius), in all samples, the fraction
of accessible pores to water increases again to
approximately $70–80\%.$ Accessibility to toluene
generally follows that of water; however, in the smallest
pores (~<2.5 nm radius), accessibility to toluene
decreases, especially in the clay-rich sample which contains
about $30\%$ more closed pores than the quartz- and
carbonate-rich samples. Results from this study show that
mineralogy of producing intervals within a shale reservoir
can affect accessibility of pores to water and toluene and
these mineralogic differences may affect hydrocarbon storage
and production and hydraulic fracturing characteristics.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-1},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106},
pnm = {6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for
Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS1-20140101 / EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS3-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000428831300013},
doi = {10.1016/j.coal.2018.02.002},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/843901},
}