Simulation test method for gas extraction from tectonically-deformed coal seam in-situ by depressurizing horizontal well cavity

A simulation test method for gas extraction from a tectonically-deformed coal seam in-situ by depressurizing a horizontal well cavity, wherein a coal series stratum structure reconstruction and similar material simulation subsystem simulates an actual tectonically-deformed coal reservoir;

• a horizontal well drilling and reaming simulation subsystem constructs a U-shaped well in which a horizontal well adjoins a vertical well, and performs a reaming process on a horizontal section of the horizontal well;
• a horizontal well hole-collapse cavity-construction depressurization excitation simulation subsystem performs pressure-pulse excitation and stress release on the horizontal well, and hydraulically displaces a coal-liquid-gas mixture such that the mixture is conveyed towards the vertical well along a depressurizing space;
• a product lifting simulation subsystem further pulverizes the coal and lifts the mixture to a wellhead of the vertical well;
• a gas-liquid-solid separation simulation subsystem separates the coal, liquid and gas;
• and a monitoring and control subsystem detects and controls operation and execution processes of test equipment in real time, so as to collect, display, process, and analyze test data, wherein specific steps are as follows:
• 1) according to actual geological characteristics of the tectonically-deformed coal reservoir and based on a similarity principle, configuring similar simulation materials with corresponding physical and mechanical characteristics, disposing the similar simulation materials in a triaxial stress-tight stereo support, and arranging a stress sensor, a temperature sensor, and a strain gauge;
• preheating the triaxial stress-tight stereo support in a constant temperature room to reach a test design temperature;
• and
• starting an air compressor and a gas booster pump, injecting gas into a similar material coal seam, starting an X-direction servo loading system, a Y-direction servo loading system, and a Z-direction servo loading system, increasing a three-way confining pressure to a test design pressure for the triaxial stress-tight stereo support, checking airtightness of the triaxial stress-tight stereo support;
• and if the airtightness meets a requirement, performing a next step;
• or if the airtightness does not meet a requirement, repeating step 1);
• 2) arranging various devices, and using an existing drilling tool and processing technology to construct a vertical well section and kick-off sections of the vertical well and the horizontal well to the similar material coal seam;
• 3) replacing the drilling tool with a reciprocating drilling and reaming tool and lowering the reciprocating drilling and reaming tool to a kick-off section of the horizontal well, performing three-stage reaming and large-diameter well completion on the similar material coal seam, and forming a horizontal well section that runs through the vertical well, to achieve open-hole cavity-constructing completion;
• 4) removing the reciprocating drilling and reaming tool from the horizontal well, and lowering an underground injection device and a copper strip connected to a high level end of a power supply to a starting point of the horizontal section of the horizontal well, lowering gas-liquid-coal mixture lifting and production devices, namely, a pulverization disturbance device and a hydraulic jet pump to the vertical well, and connecting the wellhead of the vertical well to a coal-liquid-gas separation device;
• 5) starting a plunger pump, injecting high-pressure high-speed fluids into the horizontal section of the horizontal well at a specified frequency, to cut and pulverize a coal rock and form a depressurization cavity, then accelerating water into high-velocity jet flows, to further pulverize and flush coal powder, and conveying a formed gas-liquid-coal mixture to a bottom of the vertical well;
• 6) starting the underground pulverization disturbance device and the hydraulic jet pump, further pulverizing the coal powder that flows into the bottom of the vertical well, and then lifting the coal powder to the ground to enter the coal-liquid-gas separation device;
• 7) separating the mixture that enters the coal-liquid-gas separation device, and allowing coal seam gas, an excitation liquid, and coal powder that are separated to respectively enter a gas collection bottle, a wastewater collection and treatment device, and a coal powder storage device;
• and
• 8) starting a return water pump and transferring the treated excitation liquid to a water tank for recycling, wherein
• the monitoring and control simulation subsystem collects corresponding related data such as a time, pressure, a temperature, stress-strain, saturation, a voltage/current, sedimentation solid mass, produced liquid mass, and a produced gas flow while controlling the foregoing respective steps, and records the data as a data file.