Gas Hydrates in Marine Environments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 7502
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas hydrate; methane hydrate; CH4-CO2 exchange; flow assurance; marine environment; offshore technology; oil and gas equipment
Interests: natural gas hydrate; CO2 hydrate; thermodynamics; kinetics; numerical modeling; reservoir simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural gas hydrate has been considered as a potential clean energy resource for the future due to its large resource volume and high energy density with more than 97% identified at marine settings. Other types of gas hydrates (e.g. CO2 hydrate, semi-clathrates) could play an important role in long-term carbon storage to achieve the world’s most urgent mission—carbon neutrality by 2050. Thus, the interactions between gas hydrate and environments comprise an extremely viral research topic, which is the key scope of this Special Issue. The geological phenomena of gas hydrate are intriguing and the technological applications of gas hydrate has gained ever-increasing research interests.
This Special Issue aims to solicit the most innovative studies covering chemical, physical, geological, geochemical, geomechanical, environmental, economic aspects of gas hydrates and hydrate-bearing sediments. In particular, experimental and numerical studies on the thermodynamics and kinetics of gas hydrate processes in relation to the marine environment are highly sought. Potential topics include energy recovery from CH4 hydrate (including both novel production techniques and numerical/reservoir models), environmental impact and geohazards from CH4 hydrate production and CH4 seepage, hydrate-based CO2 capture and separation, long-term CO2 hydrate sequestration onshore and offshore, novel CO2-CH4 exchange method for energy recovery, hydrate inhibition technologies in offshore pipelines, deep sea oil and gas blowout with hydrate formation and transport, etc. The Special Issue welcomes both reviews and original research papers.
Prof. Dr. Daoyi Chen
Dr. Zhenyuan Yin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural gas hydrate
- CH4 hydrate
- CO2 hydrate
- CO2-CH4 exchange
- geohazard
- marine environment
- numerical/reservoir models
- carbon storage
- flow assurance
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