Natural Gas Hydrate: Recovery and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 405
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
Gas hydrate is composed of gas molecules (main component of natural gas: methane, propane, CO2, etc.) confined in a dense lattice of water molecules. In general, these lattices can hold more than one hundred times the number of gas molecules. In thermodynamics, gas hydrate can be stable under high pressure and low temperature conditions, and therefore natural gas hydrate sediments are under permanent frosts and shallow sediments of deep-sea continent, where are adequate sources of natural gas that are both biogenic by bioactivity in sediments and generated by deeper geological processes within the Earth. Once thought to be rare, gas hydrates are now abundant, and the recoverable sediments are estimated thousand trillions of cubic meters all over the world. The production from hydrate-containing sediments by thermal stimulation, depressurization, chemical injection or a combination of them will be an important way for energy supply worldwide. In addition, CO2 hydrate is one kind of gas hydrates and has a good application prospect on carbon capture and storage. We encourage submission of interdisciplinary manuscripts with topics focused on offshore and onshore (permafrost, subglacier, etc.) gas hydrate systems using geophysical remote sensing data, geochemical and laboratory analysis, borehole data, sediment cores, and modeling.
Dr. Lanlan Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Natural gas hydrate
- Sediment core
- CO2 hydrate
- Interdisciplinary analysis
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