To
accurately and quantitatively characterize the evolution of
coal microstructures before and after supercritical CO2 treatment, this paper proposes a microstructural analysis for coal-rock
based on low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LNMR) technology, the
L-weighing method. The experimental results of the L-weighing method
and the LNMR method were compared and analyzed. The results showed
that there were differences between the experimental results of the
L-weighing method and the LNMR method, but the overall laws were basically
the same. The L-weighing method quantitatively characterizes the water
content in coal and determines water consumption and microscopic component
extraction in coal with supercritical CO2, while the LNMR
method only determines the dissolution of H-containing substances
in the coal by supercritical CO2. According to the combined
analysis with the L-weighing method and the LNMR method, after the
supercritical CO2 entered the coal, it consumed 0.33 g
of water from the coal and extracted 0.32 g of microscopic components
from the coal, reacted chemically with both water and microscopic
components in the coal, and provided effective water consumption and
extraction of the coal. The supercritical CO2 increased
the saturable water in the coal by 0.71 g, the porosity by 1.57%,
and the pore seepage volume by a factor of 1.10, which expanded the
volume and increased the permeability of the coal. After the reaction
with supercritical CO2, the centrifugal water loss of the
coal increased by 0.16 g, the T
2 cutoff
(T
2C) of the coal had shifted to the left
by 0.31 ms, and the free water volume of the coal had increased by
a factor of 1.15, which enhanced the pore connectivity in the coal.
The water consumption, extraction, volume expansion, permeability
increase, and pore connectivity increase were primarily responsible
for the changes in the coal microstructure effected by supercritical
CO2.