Brillian Surya Raharjani Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

RESEARCH OUTLINE of EHIMES STUDENT EXCHANGE Paper Title : Temporal Alteration of Fracture Permeability in Granite Under Hydrothermal Conditions and Its Interpretation by Coupled Chemo-Mechanical Model

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Introduction A. Purposes Examine the flow and the transport behavior in fractured rocks, because in particular the fluid within low permeability rock masses may cause hydraulic weakness. B. Hypothesis 1. The changes of temperature and stresses may affect the transport characteristics. 2. The increase of permeability may caused by mechanical dilatation affected mineral dissolution in fracture voids.

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Methodology A. Design of the experiment/trial 1. Rock samples were the Mizunami granite, cylindrical (30 mm x 60 mm) with the fracture due to Brazilian test. 2. Mizunamis granite chemical composition test 3. Water flow through experiments with various temperature of injected fluid and various confining stresses. Examine the correlation of various stresses, temperature, time, with flow rate and fracture apperture. 4. Chemical analysis to measure the pH and determine the concentration of chemical composition after the water-flow experiment with various thermal conditions 5. SEM-EDX experiment to examine the fracture surfaces B. Samples 1. Water flow experiments consist of 3 samples of granite cyllinder, with confining pressure 10 Mpa (ef-1), 5 MPa (ef-2), and 5 MPa (ef-3) with various temperatures and time of experiments.

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2. SEM-EDX experiment use 1 sample that under a confining pressure of 10 Mpa (ef-1). C. Procedures 1. The water flow experiments consist of 3 samples that conducted in various experiment conditions. The ef-1 takes 550 hours, ef-2 takes 760 hours, and the ef-3 takes 880 hours. 2. The experiment was representative due to the coupled chemo mechanical model it would validate the reproducibilty. 3. The temperature was increased till 90C, and kept constant throughout the rest of experiments, than calculate the hydraulic aperture from flow rate datas 4. The chemical analysis was detected the effluent concentration of fluid samples that taken from the flow outlet. 5. The SEM-EDX experiments was conducted in order to identify the chemical compositions. III. Experimental Result and Analysis A. Water Flow Experiments Water show experiment examine the evolutions of the fracture aperture. In ef-1, ef-2, and ef-3 experiments. B. Evolution of the effluent concentration for ef-1, ef-2, and ef-3 shown that the Si concentration were the most temperature dependent, and increased greater in room temperature than in 90C. C. Microstructure Observation Using SEM-EDX The two kinds of minerals composition CaCO3 and SiO2 were mainly revealed based upon the EDX analysis. D. The monotonic reduction in the fracture aperture was observed from the flow through experiments, and the process could be described by the previous developed models. IV. Study Plan A. Understand the fracture permeability in granite under hydrothermal conditions through after flow experiments. B. C. Understand the concentration of chemical compositions of the fluid samples after the water flow experiment. Understand the morphology and micro-structure of the sample after the confining pressure through SEM-EDX experiment.