The SFB1313-Team is pleased to announce the first SFB 1313 public milestone
presentation by Simon Scholz, IWS
Title: Developing and calibrating a numerical model for Microbially Enhanced Coal-Bed Methane (MECBM) Production
Advisor: apl. Prof. Holger Class
Time: Monday, 25 June 2018, 16:30
Place: Pfaffenwaldring 61, 1.002 (Seminarraum 2)
Abstract
Microbially enhanced coal-bed methane (MECBM) production is an innovative idea to stimulate biogenic coal-bed methane (CBM) production by providing methanogens and nutrients to the coal and, thus, enhancing the microbial conversion of coal to gas. However, little is known about the environmental conditions favourable to CBM production, or the details of interactions of microbes and nutrients that promote CBM production. The milestone presentation has its focus on the development of a numerical model for simulating MECBM-related processes into the Open-Source numerical simulator DuMux. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the relevant processes of MECBM and their interactions to formulate a conceptual model, including flow and transport of fluids as well as micro-biological, chemical, and adsorption/desorption processes. We present a conceptual food-web that is calibrated and validated using batch experiments. An outlook towards column studies and the extension to reactive flow- and transport-processes is given.