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Innovative Technologien für die Erkundung, Löschung und Beobachtung von Kohlebränden - Phase B -
(2011)
Aufbauend auf den Erkenntnissen der Phase A, die sich auf das grundlegende Verständnis von Kohlebränden, sowie der Voraussetzung und des prinzipiellen Ablaufs der physikalischchemischen Brandprozesse konzentriert haben, erfolgte in Phase B eine Fokussierung auf Methoden zur Vermeidung von Kohlebränden, sowie der Löschung und Überwachung von Kohlebrandzonen, um einen Beitrag zur Verminderung von C02-Emissionen und zum Erhalt der nutzbaren Energieressourcen leisten zu können. Diese Arbeiten erfolgten insbesondere mit Bezug zu den „Clean Development Mechanisms“ (CDM), die im Rahmen des Kyoto-Protokolls entwickelt worden sind.
Eine Zertifizierung von Löschaktivitäten im Rahmen des Kyoto-Protokolls setzt dabei eine nachvollziehbare Ermittlung der kohlebrandbezogenen C02-Emissionen und eine belastbare Abschätzung der durch die Löschung verringerten Emissionsmengen voraus. Wesentliche Arbeiten konzentrierten sich auf die Entwicklung von Verfahren, die eine solche Abschätzung gewährleisten können. Dazu wurden unterschiedliche Ansätze entwickelt und anhand der erhobenen Felddaten überprüft. Die untersuchten Ansätze konzentrierten sich dabei auf Verfahren, die eine Ermittlung des vorhandenen Kohlevolumens, die Erfassung der emittierten Gase und die durch die Kohlebrände verursachten Temperaturanomalien an der Tagesoberfläche ermöglichen. Die direkten Arbeiten zum Thema CDM wurden dabei in einem Arbeitspaket unter Federführung der BGR gebündelt.
Die deutsche Initiative zur Erforschung der Kohlenbrände in der V.R. China leistete zweifelsfrei signifikante Beiträge zu den oben genannten Zielen. Durch die inventiven Ansätze im Bereich der Brandbewältigung konnte darüber hinaus auch in Teilen die ökonomischen Chancen für ein Engagement deutscher Unternehmen aufgezeigt werden.
Uncontrolled burning or smoldering of coal seams, otherwise known as coal fires, represents a worldwide natural hazard. Efficient application of fire-fighting strategies and prevention of mining hazards require that the temporal evolution of fire propagation can be sufficiently precise predicted. A promising approach for the investigation of the temporal evolution is the numerical simulation of involved physical and chemical processes.
In the context of the Sino-German Research Initiative Innovative Technologies for Detection, Extinction and Prevention of Coal Fires in North China, a numerical model has been developed for simulating underground coal fires at large scales. The objective of such modelling is to investigate observables, like the fire propagation rate, with respect to the thermal and hydraulic parameters of adjacent rock. In the model, hydraulic, thermal and chemical processes are accounted for, with the last process complemented by laboratory experiments.
Numerically, one key challenge in modelling coal fires is to circumvent the small time steps resulting from the resolution of fast reaction kinetics at high temperatures. In our model, this problem is solved by means of an operator-splitting approach, in which transport and reactive processes of oxygen are independently calculated. At high temperatures, operator-splitting has the decisive advantage of allowing the global time step to be chosen according to oxygen transport, so that time-consuming simulation through the calculation of fast reaction kinetics is avoided. Also in this model, because oxygen distribution within a coal fire has been shown to remain constant over long periods, an additional extrapolation algorithm for the coal concentration has been applied.
In this paper, we demonstrate that the operator-splitting approach is particularly suitable for investigating the influence of hydraulic parameters of adjacent rocks on coal fire propagation. A study shows that dynamic propagation strongly depends on permeability variations. For the assumed model, no fire exists for permeabilities k < 10-10 m2, whereas the fire propagation velocity ranges between 340 m a-1 for k = 10-8 m2, and drops to lower than 3 m a-1 for k = 5 × 10-10 m2. Additionally, strong temperature variations are observed for the permeability range 5 × 10-10 m2 < k < 10-8 m2.
High-accuracy film thickness measurements in the range below 100 nm can be made by various complex methods like spectral ellipsometry (SE), scanning force microscopy (SFM), grazing incidence X-ray reflectometry (GIXR), or X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF). The measurement results achieved with these methods are based on different interactions between the film and the probe. A key question in nanotechnology is how to achieve consistent results on a level of uncertainty below one nanometre with different techniques.
Two different types of thickness standards are realised. Metal film standards for X-ray techniques in the thickness range 10 to 50 nm are calibrated by GIXR with monochromatised synchrotron radiation of 8048 eV. The results obtained at four different facilities show excellent agreement. SiO2 on Si standards for SE and SFM in the thickness range 6 to 1000 nm are calibrated by GIXR with monochromatised synchrotron radiation of 1841 eV and with a metrological SFM. Consistent results within the combined uncertainties are obtained with the two methods. Surfaces and interfaces of both types of standards are additionally investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
SCM potential in Africa
(2012)
We present a synchrotron X-ray tomographic study on the morphology of carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layer (GDL) material under compression. A dedicated compression device is used to provide well-defined compression conditions. A flat compression punch is employed to study the fiber geometry at different degrees of compression. Transport relevant geometrical parameters such as porosity, pore size and tortuosity distributions are calculated. The geometric properties notably change upon compression which has direct impact on transport conditions for gas and fluid flow. The availability of broad 3D paths, which are most important for the transport of liquid water from the catalyst layer through the GDL, is markedly reduced after compression. In a second experiment, we study the influence of the channel-land-pattern of the flow-field on shape and microstructure of the GDL. A flow-field compression punch is employed to reproduce the inhomogeneous compression conditions found during fuel cell assembly. While homogenously compressed underneath the land the GDL is much less and inhomogeneously compressed under the channel. The GDL material extends far into the channel volume where it can considerably influence gas and fluid flow. Loose fiber endings penetrate deeply into the channel and form obstacles for the discharge of liquid water droplets.
Minimum ignition temperature of dust clouds (MITC) was studied experimentally and theoretically in different atmospheres. Three carbonaceous dusts were tested in both air and O2/CO2 atmospheres with CH4 mole fraction from 0 to 2%. Results showed that the ignition risk of the three dusts significantly increases (decrease of MITC by ~100 ℃) with increasing XO2 from 21% to 50%, but significantly decreases replacing N2 in air with CO2. The inhibition effect of CO2 on MITCs could be diminished by increasing XO2 or adding CH4. The addition of small amount of CH4 has different effects on the MITCs of different dust samples, following the opposite order of volatile matter content: anthracite>bituminous coal>starch. Two modified steady-state ignition models, considering the density of mixture gas and dust cloud, XO2 and its diffusivity, were developed to interpret the experimental observations. The analysis revealed that the global heterogeneous ignition model suits well for the hybrid mixtures of anthracite or bituminous coal dusts. In contrast, the proposed global homogeneous ignition model was found to be only valid for the pure starch dust, and the extra CH4 addition could strongly affect the ignition process of starch, particularly in O2/CO2 atmospheres with higher XO2.