2022
DOI: 10.1029/2021jb023000
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Hydro‐Mechanical Measurements of Sheared Crystalline Rock Fractures With Applications for EGS Collab Experiments 1 and 2

Abstract: Geothermal energy is attractive because it helps secure energy supply, mitigate climate change, and comply with future green energy policies. The GeoVision study estimates a potential 26-fold increase from 2019 geothermal energy production levels to 60 GW by 2050 in the United States (Bromley et al., 2010;Dobson et al., 2017;Fan, 2020;Hamm, 2019). To expand geothermal energy production, enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is a key candidate technology (Tester et al., 2006). Hydraulic fracturing is a stimulation m… Show more

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“…When the confining pressure is decreased from 10 to 4 MPa, the permeability is only recovered to approximately 50% of its starting value. Such hysteretic behavior has also been observed for other types of rock (e.g., crystalline rock [39]). The same trend, both qualitatively and quantitatively, also applies to Sample 16 (Figure 7), representing a micro-fractured shale sample of comparatively low permeability.…”
Section: Reversibility Of Permeability Upon Unloadingsupporting
confidence: 61%
“…When the confining pressure is decreased from 10 to 4 MPa, the permeability is only recovered to approximately 50% of its starting value. Such hysteretic behavior has also been observed for other types of rock (e.g., crystalline rock [39]). The same trend, both qualitatively and quantitatively, also applies to Sample 16 (Figure 7), representing a micro-fractured shale sample of comparatively low permeability.…”
Section: Reversibility Of Permeability Upon Unloadingsupporting
confidence: 61%
“…Injecting solid proppant particles such as sand or bauxite grains is hoped to sustain fracture permeability in the long-term even after the release of injection pressure (Liang et al 2016). Moreover, proppant eliminates the necessity of fracture sliding (i.e., shearing) during hydraulic stimulation which would rely on having the Goldilocks mix of multiple suitably weak, suitably oriented, sufficiently permeable (but not too permeable), appropriately positioned preexisting fractures and adequate in-situ shear stress to mobilize these fractures without inadvertently inducing an earthquake (Meng et al 2022). However, proppant is not without its own limitations.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This fracture self-propping by asperities is considered an effective means of permanently enhancing permeability (Kc and Ghazanfari, 2021;Meng et al, 2022). Furthermore, new cracks can be created because shear slip increases the stress intensity at the tips of preexisting fractures, potentially leading to fracture propagation and/or generating fracture networks (Bunger et al, 2013;Evans et al, 2005;Rahman et al, 2002;Willis-Richards et al, 1996).…”
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confidence: 99%