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Methane desorption and migration in thermodynamic inequilibrium coal beds

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The paper discusses issues of methane desorption and migration from the standpoint of physics of a coal bed, destruction of a rock mass and the experience gained in the field of coal mine degasation, with an emphasis laid upon man-induced impact on a thermodynamic inequilibrium rock mass and enhancement of methane desorption.

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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 1, pp. 61–68, January–February, 2010.

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Kurlenya, M.V., Serdyukov, S.V. Methane desorption and migration in thermodynamic inequilibrium coal beds. J Min Sci 46, 50–56 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10913-010-0007-8

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