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INL/CON-06-11830 PREPRINT A Permeability Model for Coal and Other Fractured, Sorptive- Elastic Media Society of Petroleum Engineers Eastern Regional Meeting Eric P. Robertson Richard L. Christiansen October 2006 This is a preprint of a paper intended for publication in a journal or proceedings. Since changes may be made before publication, this preprint should not be cited or reproduced without permission of the author. This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, or any of their employees, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for any third party’s use, or the results of such use, of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use by such third party would not infringe privately owned rights. The views expressed in this paper are not necessarily those of the United States Government or the sponsoring agency. A Permeability Model for Coal and Other Fractured, Sorptive-Elastic Media Eric P. Robertson, SPE, Idaho National Laboratory and Richard L. Christiansen, SPE, Colorado School of Mines 5 6 in 1990, Seidle and Huitt in 1995, Palmer and Mansoori in 7 in 2003, and Shi and Durucan8 in 1998, Pekot and Reeves 2003. These models were derived to mimic field conditions and assume a matrix-block geometry described as a bundle of Abstract vertical matchsticks under a uniaxial stress regime.6,9 This paper describes the derivation of a new equation that can However, in the laboratory, permeability is typically meas- be used to model the permeability behavior of a fractured, ured using hydrostatic biaxial core holders, which apply a sorptive-elastic media, such as coal, under variable stress con- single confining pressure to all external points of the core in-