Influence of burial conditions on the seepage characteristics of uranium bearing loose sandstone

Autor: Quan Jiang, Mingtao Jia, Yihan Yang, Qi Xu, Chuanfei Zhang, Xiangxue Zhang, Meifang Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol 56, Iss 4, Pp 1357-1371 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1738-5733
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2023.11.040
Popis: To investigate the influence of different burial conditions on the seepage characteristics of loose sandstone in the leaching mining of sandstone uranium ore, this study applied different ground pressures and water pressures to rock samples at different burial depths to alter the rock's seepage characteristics. The permeability, pore distribution, and particle distribution characteristic parameters were determined, and the results showed that at the same burial depth, ground pressure had a greater effect on the reduction in permeability than water pressure. The patterns and mechanisms are as follows: under the influence of ground pressure, increasing the burial depth compresses the pores in the rock samples, decreases the proportion of effective permeable pores, and causes particle fragmentation, which blocks pore channels, resulting in a decrease in permeability. Under the influence of water pressure, increasing the burial depth expands the pores but also causes hard clay particles to decompose and block pore channels. As the burial depth increases, the particles eventually decompose completely, and the permeability initially decreases and then increases. In this experiment, the relationships between permeability and the proportion of pores larger than 0.15 μm and the proportion of particles smaller than 59 μm were found to be the most significant.
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