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Record W4413423984 · doi:10.1016/j.jcou.2025.103204

CO2 utilization and sequestration potential in deep coal seams: A case study on Carboniferous coals from the Karaganda Basin, Kazakhstan

2025· article· en· W4413423984 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of CO2 Utilization · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicCoal Properties and Utilization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersNazarbayev UniversityAustrian Science Fund
KeywordsCarboniferousCoal miningCarbon sequestrationGeologyMining engineeringStructural basinCoal basinCoalGeochemistryPaleontologyArchaeologyGeographyChemistryCarbon dioxide

Abstract

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Kazakhstan is a major coal producer and emitter of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for CO₂ utilization and storage. The main goal of this work is to study the feasibility of CO 2 as a feedstock for enhanced coalbed methane recovery (CO 2 -ECBM), as well as the associated geological storage potential of the D6 coal seam in the Karaganda Basin. For this purpose, coal samples were investigated using elemental analysis, Rock-Eval pyrolysis (RE), organic petrography as well as low-pressure (LP: N 2 , CO 2 ), and high-pressure (HP: CO 2 , CH 4 ) sorption tests. Vitrinite reflectance values show that seam D6 reached the medium-volatile bituminous rank. Higher organic matter content significantly increases the LP CO 2 sorption capacity. The adsorption-desorption isotherms of CO 2 recorded under both LP and HP conditions show a hysteresis loop. This is probably due to interactions between CO 2 and functional groups leading to enhanced physisorption at LP and chemisorption and matrix swelling at HP conditions. This effect is favorable for storage purposes as it implies safe CO 2 trapping even at reduced reservoir pressure. The CBM potential of seam D6 is estimated at 9 billion m 3 initial gas and 360 million m 3 producible gas in place. Estimates of the adsorptive and total CO 2 storage capacity yielded 1.1 and 3.6 gigatons (Gt), respectively. With this considerable total storage capacity, Kazakhstan's current annual CO 2 emissions could be stored for 14 years. This study highlights how CO 2 can be effectively utilized as a feedstock to enhance methane recovery while achieving long-term CO 2 sequestration.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score0.631

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it