| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L23444/01 |
| Title: |
THE EFFECT OF BIOLOGICAL GAS PRODUCTION ON SOIL BEHAVIOUR |
| Principal Investigator: |
Sills, Professor G |
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| Department: |
Engineering Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
07 April 1997 |
Ends: |
06 April 2000 |
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144,822
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| Ground Engineering |
Oil & Gas Extraction |
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Current research has shown that gas can be produced biogenically in the laboratory in reconstituted soils recovered from the Slufter in the Netherlands. It appears that the amount of the gas and the corresponding soil structure can be controlled by temperature. It is proposed to study the effect of the gas in two ways. The first is to examine the structure using X-ray methods of radiography and transmission, for comparision of the structure with the same soil without gas, and with sampes from the original site. The comparision would also be made with soils made artificially gassy using the zeolite technique developed at Oxford and used as the basis for a geotechnical assessment of gassy seabed soils. The second component of the programme is a consolidation study of the naturally gassy soil, under conditions of a steadsily increasing load with a proportional back pressure increase, providing the effect of increasing depth, thereby improving the simulation of the in situ conditions. Again, the results would be compared with the bahaviour of the saturated soil and with samples made gassy by the zeolite method.
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