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Gas Hydrates in Man-Made Environments: Applications, Economics, Challenges and Future Directions

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This chapter expands on the exciting applications of gas (or clathrate) hydrates in advanced gas storage, transportation, separation and refrigeration systems. The global hydrate research community has expanded considerably since the early 2000s, delivering new insight as to the exploitative potential and cross-interactions between hydrate thermodynamics, kinetics and transport behaviour. Of the many developments, one consistent lesson continues to emerge around the exploitation of functional chemistry—which itself must be developed with a knowledge of how chemical moieties affect performance—to exert control of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the application. Future research into hydrate-based storage and transportation, the array of gas separation applications and the significant potential around industrial refrigeration will continue to grow through these functional chemistries, which also carry the potential to significantly reduce the safety and operating constraints on future generations of natural gas production systems.

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  1. Centre for Long Subsea Tiebacks, School of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

    Asheesh Kumar & Zachary Aman

  2. Upstream and Wax Rheology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India

    Asheesh Kumar

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Hari Prakash Veluswamy

  4. School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

    Prashant Jadhawar

  5. Hydrates Flow Assurance & Phase Equilibria Group, Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Antonin Chapoy

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Kumar, A., Veluswamy, H.P., Jadhawar, P., Chapoy, A., Aman, Z. (2022). Gas Hydrates in Man-Made Environments: Applications, Economics, Challenges and Future Directions. In: Joshi, S.J., Sen, R., Sharma, A., Salam, P.A. (eds) Status and Future Challenges for Non-conventional Energy Sources Volume 1. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4505-1_9

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