The bubble mechanism for methane transport from the shallow sea bed to the surface: A review and sensitivity study

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2409-2428

  Leifer, Ira ^a   Patro, Ranjan Kumar ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric methane; Bubble; Gas seepage

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS SEEPAGE; METHANE;

EID: 0036849066     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00065-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (69)

1. Asher, W.E., Karle, L.M., Higgins, B.J., Farley, P.J., Leifer, I.S., Monahan, E.C., 1995. The effect of bubble plume size on the parameterization of air-sea water gas transfer velocities. In: Jähne, B., Monahan, E.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Air/Water Gas Transfer Meeting. Aeon Verlag, Hanau Germany, pp. 205-216.
2. Asher, W.E., Karle, L.M., Higgins, B.J., 1997. On the difference between bubble-mediated air-water transfer in freshwater and sea water. Journal of Marine Research 55 (5), 1-34.
3. Bischoff, F., Sommerfeld, M., Durst, F., 1991. The determination of mass transfer rates from individual small bubbles. Chemical Engineering Science 46 (12), 3115-3121.
4. Blanchard, D.C., 1989. The size and height to which jet drops are ejected from bursting bubbles in sea water. Journal of Geophysical Research 94 (10), 999-11002.
5. Brankovic, A., Currie, I.G., Martin, W., 1984. Laser-doppler measurements of bubble dynamics. Physics of Fluids 27, 348-355.
6. Calderbank, P.H., Johnson, D.S.L., Loudon, J., 1970. Mechanics and mass transfer of single bubbles in free rise through some Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquids. Chemical Engineering Science 25, 235-256.
7. Chen, R.C., Reese, J., Fan, L.-S., 1994. Flow structure in a three-dimensional bubble column and three-phase fluidized bed. Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering 40 (7), 1093-1104.
8. Clark, J.F., Washburn, L., Hornafius, J.S., Luyendyk, B.P., 2000. Dissolved hydrocarbon flux from natural marine seeps to the Southern California Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 11509-11522.
9. Clift, R., Grace, J.R. Weber, M.E., 1978. Bubbles, Drops, and Particles. Academic Press, New York, pp. 380.
10. Coantic, M., 1986. A model of gas transfer across air-water interfaces with capillary waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 91 (C3), 3925-3943.
11. Conrad, R., Seller, W., 1988. Methane and hydrogen in sea water (Atlantic Ocean). Deep-Sea Research 12, 1903-1917.
12. Datta, R.L., Napier, D.H., Newitt, D.M., 1950. The properties and behavior of gas bubbles formed at a circular orifice. Transaction of the Institute of Chemical Engineering 28, 14-26.
13. Detsch, R.M., 1990. Dissolution of 100-1000mm diameter air bubbles in reagent grade sea water. Journal of Geophysical Research 95 (C6), 9765-9773.
14. Duhkin, S.S., Miller, R., Loglio, G., 1998. Physico-chemical hydrodynamics. In: Mobius, D., Miller, R. (Eds.), Drops and Bubbles in Interfacial Research. Elsevier Science B.V, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 367-432.
15. Duineveld, P.C., 1994. Bouncing and Coalescence of Two Bubbles in Water. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
16. Duineveld, P.C., 1995. The rise velocity and shape of bubbles in pure water at high Reynolds number. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 292, 325-332.
17. Fan, L.-S., Tsuchiya, K., 1990. Bubble Wake Dynamics in Liquids and Liquid Solid Suspensions. Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, MA, USA.
18. Farmer, D.M., MacNeil, C.L., Johnson, B.D., 1993. Evidence for the importance of bubbles in increasing air-sea gas flux. Nature 361, 620-623.
19. Fdihla, R.B., Duineveld, P.C., 1996. The effect of surfactants on the rise of a spherical bubble at high Reynolds and Peclet numbers. Physics of Fluids 8, 310-321.
20. Frumkin, A.N., Levich, V.G., 1947. Effect of surface-active substances on movement at the boundaries of liquid phases. Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii 21, 1183-1204.
21. Fyrillas, M.M., Szeri, A.J., 1996. Surfactant dynamics and rectified diffusion of microbubbles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 311, 361-378.
22. Gal-Or, B., Waslo, S., 1968. Hydrodynamics of an ensemble of drops (or bubbles) in the presence or absence of surfactants. Chemical Engineering Science 23, 1431-1446.
23. Haberman, W.L., Morton, R.K., 1953. An Experimental Investigation of the Drag and Shape of Air Bubbles Rising in Various Liquids. Report 802, Navy Dept., David W. Taylor Model Basin. 68 Washington, DC.
24. He, Z., Maldrelli, C., Dagan, Z.J., 1991. The size of stagnant caps of bulk soluble surfactants on the interface of translating fluid droplets. Journal of Colloidal Interface Science 146, 442-451.
25. Jähne, B., Münnich, K.O., Bösinger, R., Dutzi, A., Huber, W., Libner, P., 1987. On the parameters influencing air-water gas exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research 92 (C2), 1937-1949.
26. Jakobsen, H.A., Sannaes, B.H., Grevskott, S., Svendsen, H.F., 1997. Modeling of vertical bubble-driven flows. Industrial Engineering Chemical Research 36, 4052-4074.
27. Joia, I.A., Ushijima, T., Perkins, R.J., 1997. Numerical study of bubble and particle motion in a turbulent boundary layer using proper orthogonal decomposition. Applied Science Research 57, 263-277.
28. Judd, A., Davies, G., Wilson, J., Holmes, R., Baron, G., Bryden, I., 1997. Contributions to atmospheric methane by natural seepages on the UK continental shelf. Marine Geology 137, 165-189.
29. Keeling, R.F., 1993. On the role of large bubbles in air-sea gas exchange and supersaturation in the ocean. Journal of Marine Research 51, 237-271.
30. Kim, I., Perlstein, A.J., 1990. Stability of the flow past a sphere. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 211, 73-93.
31. Kim, S.D., Kang, Y., 1997. Heat and mass transfer in three-phase fluidized-bed reactors - An overview. Chemical Engineering Science 52 (21/22), 3639-3660.
32. Lapin, A., Lübbert, A., 1994. Numerical simulation of the dynamics of two-phase gas-liquid flows in bubble columns. Chemical Engineering Science 49 (21), 3661-3674.
33. Leifer, I.S., 1995. A Validation Study of Bubble Mediated Air-Sea Gas Transfer Modeling. Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
34. Leifer, I.S., Patro, R.K., Bowyer, P., 2000a. A study on the temperature variation of rise velocity for large clean bubbles. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 17 (10), 1392-1402.
35. Leifer, I., Clarke, J.F., Chen, R.F., 2000b. Modifications of the local environment by natural hydrocarbon seeps. Geophysical Research Letter 27 (22), 3711-3714.
36. Levich, V.G. 1962. Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics. Prentice Hall Inc., New York/NY, 390pp.
37. Liss, P.S., 1973. Process of gas exchange across an air-water interface. Deep-Sea Research 20, 221-238.
38. Liss, P.S., Watson, A.J., Bock, E.J., Jähne, B., Asher, W.E., Frew, N.M., Hasse, L., Korenowski, G.M., Merlivat, L., Philips, L.F., Schluessel, P., Woolf, D.K., 1997. Report Group 1 - Physical processes in the microlayer and the air-sea gas exchange of trace gases. In: Liss, P., Duce, R. (Eds.), The Sea Surface and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 1-33.
39. Mackay, D., Shiu, W.Y., 1981. A critical review of Henry's law constants for chemicals of environmental interest. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 10, 1175-1199.
40. Marks, C.H., 1973. Measurements of the terminal velocity of bubbles rising in a chain. Transaction of ASME. Series 1. Journal of Fluid Engineering 95, 17-22.
41. Masliyah, J.H., Epstein, N., 1972. Numerical solution of heat and mass transfer from spheroids in steady axisymmetric flow. Progress in Heat Mass Transfer 6, 613-632.
42. Memery, L., Merlivat, L., 1983. Gas exchange across an air-water interface: Experimental results and modeling of bubble contribution to transfer. Journal of Geophysical Research 88 (C1), 707-724.
43. Memery, L., Merlivat, L., 1985. Modelling of gas flux through bubbles at the air-water interface. Tellus 37B, 272-285.
44. Miyagi-Kogakuhakusi, O., 1927. The motion of an air bubble in rising water. Tohoku Imp. Univ. Tech. Reports V-VI, pp. 135-171.
45. Monahan, E.C., 1986. The ocean as a source for atmospheric particles. In: Buat-Menard, P. (Ed.), The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. D. Reidel Pub. Co., Dordrecht, Holland, pp. 129-163.
46. Moore, D.W., 1963. The boundary layer on a spherical gas bubble. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 16, 161-176.
47. Motarjemi, M., Jameson, G.J., 1978. Mass transfer from very small bubbles - The optimum bubble size for aeration. Chemical Engineering Science 33, 1415-1423.
48. Okazaki, S., 1964. The velocity of ascending air bubbles in aqueous solutions of a surface active substance and the life of the bubble on the same solution. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 37, 144-150.
49. Park, W.C., Klausner, J.F., Mei, R., 1995. Unsteady forces on spherical bubbles. Experiment in Fluids 19, 167-172.
50. Patro, R.K., Leifer, I., Bowyer, P., 2001. Better bubble process modeling: Improved bubble hydrodynamics parameterisation. In: Salzman, E.S., Donelan, M., Drennan, W., Wanninkhof, R. (Eds.), Gas Transfer and Water Surfaces. American Geophysical Union Monograph, Vol. 127, pp. 315-320.
51. Quintana, G.C., 1992. The effect of surfactants on flow and mass transport to drops and bubbles. In: Chhabra, R.P., Kee D, De. (Eds.), Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops, and Particles. Hemisphere Pub. Corp., New York, pp. 87-113.
52. Raymond, D.R., Zieminski, S.A., 1971. Mass transfer and drag coefficients of bubbles rising in dilute aqueous solutions. Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering 17 (1), 57-65.
53. Rowland, F.S., 1985. Methane and chlorocarbons in the earth's atmosphere. Origins of Life 15, 279-297.
54. Sadhal, S., Johnson, R.E., 1983. Stoke's flow past bubbles and drops partially coated with thin films. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 126, 237-250.
55. Sakugawa, H., Handa, N., 1985. Chemical studies on dissolved carbohydrates in water samples collected from the North Pacific and Bering Sea. Ocean Acta 8, 185-196.
56. Sam, A., Gomez, C.O., Finch, J.A., 1996. Axial velocity profiles of single bubbles in water/froth. International Journal of Mineral Processing 47 (3), 177-196.
57. Schügerl, K., 1997. Three-phase-biofluidization-application of three-phase fluidization in the biotechnology - A review. Chemical Engineering Science 52 (21/22), 3661-3668.
58. Thorpe, S.A., 1982. On the clouds of bubbles formed by breaking wind-waves in deep water and their role in air-sea gas transfer. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 304 (A), 155-210.
59. Tikuisis, P., Ward, C.A., 1992. Rate of gas absorption by liquids and "surface resistance". In: Chhabra, R.P., Kee, D.D. (Eds.), Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops, and Particles. Hemisphere Pub. Corp., New York, pp. 114-132.
60. 2 bubbles in a pressurized liquid flowing downward and its simulation in seawater. Chemical Engineering Science 52 (21/22), 4119-4126.
61. Tsuge, H., Hibino, S.I., 1977. The onset conditions of oscillatory motion of single gas bubbles rising in various liquids. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan 10, 66-68.
62. Wanninkhof R., 1992. Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research 97 (C5), 7373-7382.
63. Wanninkhof, R., Ledwell, J.R., Broecker, W.S., 1987. Gas exchange on Mono Lake and Crowley Lake, California. Journal of Geophysical Research 92 (C13), 14567-14580.
64. Woolf, D.K., 1993. Bubbles and the air-sea transfer velocity of gases. Atmosphere-Ocean 31 (4), 517-540.
65. Woolf, D.K., 1997. Bubbles and their role in gas exchange. In: Liss, P.S., Duce, R.A. (Eds.), Sea Surface and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, pp. 174-205.
66. Woolf, D.K., Thorpe, S.A., 1991. Bubbles and the air-sea exchange of gases in near saturation conditions. Journal of Marine Research 49, 435-466.
67. Yount, D.E., 1982. Bubble nucleation in aqueous media: Implications for diving physiology. Applied Science Research 38, 37-44.
68. Zutic, V.B., Cosovic, B., Marcenko, E., Bihari, N., 1981. Surfactant production by marine phytoplankton. Marine Chemistry 10, 505-520.
69. Zvonaric, V., Zutic, V.B., 1979. Cruises of RV "Vila Velebita" in the Kvarner region of the Adriatic Sea. VI. Electrochemical determination of dissolved surfactants. Thalassia Jugoslavia 15, 113-121.