Journal
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2022.106145
Keywords
Salt rock; Loading and unloading; Damage; Dissipated energy
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Funding
- Scientific and tech- nological research projects in Sichuan province [2022YFSY0007, 2021YFH0010]
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The gas injection, water-soluble excavation, and gas recovery process in the gas storage salt cavern can be studied by conducting triaxial loading and unloading tests on salt rock samples. Several findings are presented, including the influence of confining pressure on the failure mode of rock samples, the stress loss during the unloading-reloading process, the variation of dissipative energy difference with increasing strain, and the effect of confining pressure on the initial damage degree of the samples.
The gas injection, water-soluble excavation, and gas recovery process in the gas storage salt cavern can be regarded as the loading and unloading process of the surrounding rock stress. By conducting triaxial loading and unloading tests on salt rock samples, several findings are presented: 1) The failure formed in the rock sample is a shear failure mode when confining pressure is below 15 MPa, and after confining pressure exceeds 15 MPa, it is bulging in the middle part of sample. The scientific strain is proved to be more suitable for describing the deformation of salt rock sample than the engineering strain. 2) During the unloading-reloading process, the produced stress difference is small at the beginning of unloading, while the rock undergoes more stress loss in the post-peak stage than that in other stages. 3) When the strain increases to reach a specific value, the dissipative energy difference increases with higher confining pressure. 4) Higher confining pressure improves the initial damage degree to the sample. But under different confining pressures, the damage variable has a similar evolution trend, which reaches a steady growth stage with the loading/unloading cycles gradually.
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