Advances in the Study of Gas Hydrates

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Modeling of Hydrates

   1. Towards a Full Dynamic Model of CO2 Hydrate Formation in Aqueous Solutions: Phase Field Theory of Nucleation and Growth

      • L. Gránásy, T. Pusztai, G. Tegze, T. Kuznetsova, B. Kvamme

      Pages 3-18

   2. Statistical Thermodynamic Model of Clathrate Hydrates with Multiple Filling of Cages

      • A. A. Pomeransky, V. R. Belosludov

      Pages 19-25

   3. Phenomenological Modeling of Hydrate Formation and Dissociation

      • Maria Carolina Gonzalez Chacin, Richard G. Hughes, Faruk Civan, Charles E. Taylor

      Pages 27-41

   4. Effect of Conductive and Convective Heat Flow on Gas Production from Natural Hydrates by Depressurization

      • Mehran Pooladi-Darvish, Huifang Hong

      Pages 43-65

   5. An Application Used For Correcting Thermal Gradients Below Permafrost Using An Empirical Diffusion Model

      • K. E. Newsham, R. Sigal, J. T. Kwan

      Pages 67-81

   6. Gas Production from Class 1 Hydrate Accumulations

      • George J. Moridis, Timothy S. Collett

      Pages 83-97

3. Detection of Hydrates

   1. A Project Update of Methane Hydrate Production from Alaskan Permafrost

      • Keith Millheim, Jonathan Kwan, Williams Maurer, William MacDonald, Tom Williams, Ali Kadaster et al.

      Pages 101-116

   2. Seismic Detection and Quantification of Gas Hydrates using Rock Physics and Inversion

      • Haibin Xu, Jianchun Dai, Fred Snyder, Nader Dutta

      Pages 117-139

   3. Experiment and Modeling of Hydrate Equilibrium Line in Gas, Gas Condensate, Black Oil, and Drilling Completion Fluids

      • Keshawa Shukla, Aftab Khokhar, Bayram Kalpakci

      Pages 141-154

4. Laboratory Studies of Hydrates

   1. Solubility Measurements for CO2 and Methane Mixture in Water and Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions near Hydrate Conditions

      • Ying Irene Zhang, Pallav Jain, Roger Chen, Douglas Elliot, Kyoo Song, Walter Chapman et al.

      Pages 157-171

   2. Nucleation Mechanisms of Clathrate Hydrates

      • A. A. Pomeransky, V. R. Belosludov, T. M. Inerbaev

      Pages 173-184

   3. The MSU Micellar-Solution Gas Hydrate Storage Process for Natural Gas

      • Rudy E. Rogers, Yu Zhong, John A. Etheridge, Larry E. Pearson

      Pages 185-198

   4. Enhancement in the Storage of Methane in Hydrates

      • Charles E. Taylor, Dirk D. Link, Heather A. Elsen, Edward P. Ladner

      Pages 199-211

   5. Strength and Acoustic Properties of Ottawa Sand Containing Laboratory-Formed Methane Gas Hydrate

      • William J. Winters, William F. Waite, David H. Mason

      Pages 213-226

   6. Investigating Methane Hydrate in Sediments using X-Ray Computed Tomography

      • Barry M. Freifeld, Timothy J. Kneafsey

      Pages 227-238

   7. Methane Hydrate Studies: Delineating Properties of Host Sediments to Establish Reproducible Decomposition Kinetics

      • Devinder Mahajan, Phillip Servio, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, William J. Winters

      Pages 239-250

5. Back Matter

   Pages 251-254

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This book had its genesis in a symposium on gas hydrates presented at the 2003 Spring National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The symposium consisted of twenty papers presented in four sessions over two days. Additional guest authors were invited to provide continuity and cover topics not addressed during the symposium. Gas hydrates are a unique class of chemical compounds where molecules of one compound (the guest material) are enclosed, without bonding chemically, within an open solid lattice composed of another compound (the host material). These types of configurations are known as clathrates. The guest molecules, u- ally gases, are of an appropriate size such that they fit within the cage formed by the host material. Commonexamples of gas hydrates are carbon dioxide/water and methane/water clathrates. At standard pressure and temperature, methane hydrate contains by volume 180 times as much methane as hydrate. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has estimated that there is more organic carbon c- tained as methane hydrate than all other forms of fossil fuels combined. In fact, methane hydrates could provide a clean source of energy for several centuries. Clathrate compounds were first discovered in the early 1800s when Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday were experimenting with chlorine-water mixtures.

• bonding
• Chlor
• Diffusion
• electrolyte
• energy
• Ethan
• flow
• kinetics
• material
• methane
• molecule
• natural gas
• pressure
• water
• X-ray

• U.S. DOE/NETL, Pittsburgh

  Charles E. Taylor

• Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman

  Jonathan T. Kwan

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