Hydraulic Fracturing and Microseismicity for Applications of CO2 Storage: The Role of Rock Properties and Fluid Viscosity [Hardcover]

1. Introduction 2.?Fracturing Mechanism Depending on Rock Properties 3.?Fracturing Mechanism Depending on Viscosity of Fracturing Fluid 4.?Numerical Simulation Using Distinct Element Method for Hydraulic Fracturing Considering Fluid Viscosity and Particle Size Distribution 5.?Carbon Dioxide Fracturing Experiment in Laboratory 6.?Small-Scale Field Water Refracturing Experiments 7.?Small-Scale Field Carbon Dioxide Fracturing Experiments 8.?Conclusions

This book?explores the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) as a method for geologic sequestration and demonstrates that CO2 can induce three-dimensional, sinuous cracks with numerous secondary branches, creating ideal pathways for heat and oil and gas recovery.?

Tsuyoshi Ishida has been involved in Acoustic Emission (AE) and Micro-seismicity (MS) monitoring for various laboratory and small-scale field experiments on hydraulic fracturing (HF) for nearly 40 years. He obtained his B.E. (1977) and M.S. (1979) degrees in the Department of Mineral Science and Technology from Kyoto University. From 1980 to 1991, he worked at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, where he conducted rock mechanics research related to the construction of various power generation facilities, such as large underground powerhouse caverns, dams, nuclear power stations, and feasibility studies on high-level radioactive nuclear waste disposal. During this research, he began monitoring AE and MS associated with rock fracturing. He received his Ph.D. (1989) from Kyoto University for his dissertation titled Study on In-situ Stress State in Rock .

From 1991 to 2006, he was a faculty member at Yamaguchi University, where he initiated laboratory HF experiments with AE monitoring. During this period, he also stayed at the University of Minnesota from April 1993 to March 1994 and at the Unló