Characteristics of pore structure and fractal dimension of low-rank coal: A case study of Lower Jurassic Xishanyao coal in the southern Junggar Basin, NW China
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of laboratory experiments were performed to firstly analyze the characteristics of the pore structure in low-rank coal (R o 1000nm), with a poor development of mesopores (100-1000nm).
About: This article is published in Fuel.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 211 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fractal analysis & Fractal dimension.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simplified Sierpinski-like fractal model was proposed to further examine the evolution of the pore-fracture networks with higher measurement accuracy.
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