Journal
JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 203-209Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S1003-9953(09)60079-7
Keywords
clathrate hydrate; methane; hydrogen; formation rate; storage capacity
Funding
- National 863 Program [2007AA03Z229]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2009ZM0185]
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Gas hydrate is a new technology for energy gas (methane/hydrogen) storage due to its large capacity of gas storage and safe. But industrial application of hydrate storage process was hindered by some problems. For methane, the main problems are low formation rate and storage capacity, which can be solved by strengthening mass and heat transfer, such as adding additives, stirring, bubbling, etc. One kind of additives can change the equilibrium curve to reduce the formation pressure of methane hydrate, and the other kind of additives is surfactant, which can form micelle with water and increase the interface of water-gas. Dry water has the similar effects on the methane hydrate as surfactant. Additionally, stirring, bubbling, and spraying can increase formation rate and storage capacity due to mass transfer strengthened. Inserting internal or external heat exchange also can improve formation rate because of good heat transfer. For hydrogen, the main difficulties are very high pressure for hydrate formed. Tetrahydrofuran (THF), tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) and tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) have been proved to be able to decrease the hydrogen hydrate formation pressure significantly.
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