Estimation of ash, moisture content and detection of coal lithofacies from well logs using regression and artificial neural network modelling

Abstract Coal core samples and well log data of five exploratory wells of Korba Coalfield (CF), India have been used for prediction of coal facies. The Indian non-coking coal lithofacies are generally classified by analyzing the variation of the geophysical log parameters or by defining the ranges of various proximate parameters (mainly ash % and moisture %) obtained from coal core samples. The objective is to classify each layer as coal, shaly coal and shale depending upon the content of ash % and moisture % of the corresponding layer in coaly horizon. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) is applied to classify the non-coal horizons and bands of identified coal seams of each well under the study area based on geophysical log responses: natural gamma ray (NG), high resolution density (HRD) and single point resistance (SPR). Hierarchical clustering separates the zones in a particular coal seam from five wells using the nature of the curve. These zones/clusters are further identified as coal, shaly coal, shale in three wells using regression and multilayer feed forward neural network. The log responses and coal core analyzed proximate parameters of these isolated bands/zones in two wells are used for establishing linear regression and neural network models. The observation shows very satisfactory fit ( R 2  = 0.84) between ash content and HRD and poor R 2 (

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