Dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole-sealing apparatus and method thereof for coal seam gas pressure measurement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10794174-B2
Application number	US-201816475606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2018
Priority date	Nov 24, 2017
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

A dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus and method thereof for coal seam gas pressure measurement having a pressure measuring tube arranged in a borehole with one end of the pressure measuring tube provided with a pressure measuring unit. The pressure measuring tube is wrapped with an expansion airbag and provided with a pressure introducing hole communicating with the expansion airbag. On each side of the expansion airbag, the pressure measuring tube is wrapped with a front borehole inflatable sealing airbag and a rear borehole inflatable sealing airbag respectively. A gel injection chamber is reserved between the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag and between the expansion airbag and an inner side of the borehole. Gas from the pressure measuring tube expands the expansion airbag and squeezes sealing gel in the gel injection chamber into borehole fractures for dynamic pressurized sealing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement, comprising a pressure measuring tube arranged in a borehole, wherein one end of the pressure measuring tube is provided with a pressure measuring unit for measuring a gas pressure, an expansion airbag is surrounded and wrapped on the pressure measuring tube, a pressure introducing hole is opened on the pressure measuring tube, the pressure introducing hole communicates with the expansion airbag and with gas from the coal seam, both sides of the expansion airbag on the pressure measuring tube are surrounded and wrapped with a front borehole sealing airbag and a rear borehole sealing airbag respectively, a gel injection chamber is reserved between the three of the front borehole sealing airbag, the rear borehole sealing airbag and the expansion airbag and an inner wall of the borehole, the gel injection chamber is filled with a sealing gel body, the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag are connected to an inflating unit outside the borehole through an inflating pipe, and the gel injection chamber is connected to a gel injecting unit outside the borehole through a gel injection pipe, wherein, in response to receiving of the gas from the coal seam, the expansion airbag is configured to expand to squeeze the sealing gel body in the gel injection chamber to allow the sealing gel body to enter fracture-pores of a coal rock around the borehole, realizing dynamically pressurized sealing.

2. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein a side that is on the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag and faces the expansion airbag is provided with an annular baffle surrounding the pressure measuring tube respectively.

3. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein the other end of the pressure measuring tube is connected with a sieving tube and a plurality of sieve pores are opened on an end of the sieving tube.

4. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 3 , wherein an end of the sieving tube is provided with a cone-shaped cap covering the sieve pores.

5. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein a tube diameter of a part that is on the pressure measuring tube and surrounded and wrapped by the expansion airbag is less than the tube diameter of a part that is not surrounded and wrapped by the expansion airbag.

6. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein the part that is on the pressure measuring tube and surrounded and wrapped by the expansion airbag is provided with the pressure introducing hole.

7. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein the sealing gel body is formed by blending water glass gel and high water absorbent resin.

8. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , wherein one end of the pressure measuring tube is provided with a wooden stopper.

9. A dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing method for coal seam gas pressure measurement, the method being applied to the dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 1 , and comprising:
at step 1, communicating an expansion airbag with a pressure measuring tube through a pressure introducing hole, assembling a first baffle and a rear borehole sealing airbag at an inner side of the expansion airbag on the pressure measuring tube, assembling a second baffle and a front borehole sealing airbag at an outer side of the expansion airbag on the pressure measuring tube, connecting the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag to an inflating unit outside a borehole through an inflating pipe, connecting a gel injection chamber to a gel injecting unit outside the borehole through a gel injection pipe, connecting one end of the pressure measuring tube to a pressure measuring unit and the other end of the pressure measuring tube to a sieving tube and placing the pressure measuring tube in the borehole;
at step 2, performing sealing for the borehole by inflating the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag with the inflating unit, wherein inflation pressures of the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag are greater than an estimated gas pressure in the borehole; and injecting the sealing gel body into the gel injection chamber by the gel injecting unit, wherein a gel injection pressure of injecting the sealing gel body is greater than the estimated gas pressure in the borehole; and
at step 3, along with increasing gas pressure in the borehole, a predetermined amount of gas surges into the pressure measuring tube from the borehole, a part of the predetermined amount of gas enters the expansion airbag through the pressure introducing hole to expand the expansion airbag, and expansion of the expansion airbag continuously squeezes the sealing gel body in the gel injection chamber to allow the sealing gel body to enter fracture-pores of a coal rock around the borehole, realizing dynamically pressurized sealing.

10. The dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing method for coal seam gas pressure measurement according to claim 9 , wherein a step 4 that the sealing gel body is injected again into the gel injection chamber by the gel injecting unit when the pressure measuring unit monitors no visible change of the gas pressure in the borehole, is further included, wherein the gel injection pressure is greater than the gas pressure in the borehole.

Assignees

• Univ Shandong Science & Tech

Inventors

• Lu Wei
• Liu Zhen
• Qi Guansheng
• Li Jinliang
• Sun Dongling
• Cheng Weimin
• Wang Dong
• Qin Chuanrui

Classifications

• E21B47/06 Primary

  Measuring temperature or pressure · CPC title

• E21F17/00 Primary

  Methods or devices for use in mines or tunnels, not covered elsewhere (mine lighting F21, H05B) · CPC title

• E21B33/13

  Methods or devices for cementing, for plugging holes, crevices or the like · CPC title

• E21B33/1246

  inflated by down-hole pumping means operated by a pipe string · CPC title

• E21B33/12 Primary

  Packers; Plugs (used for cementing E21B33/134, E21B33/16) · CPC title