Methane hydrates bearing synthetic sediments-Experimental and numerical approaches of the dissociation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4089-4100

  Tonnet, Nicolas ^a   Herri, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE SPIN   (France)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Heat and mass transfer; Methane hydrate; Sediment core

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESERVES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HYDRATE PHASE; ICE PHASE; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; INITIAL PERMEABILITY; LIMITING STEP; METHANE GAS; METHANE HYDRATE; METHANE HYDRATES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERMEABILITY CHANGE; POROUS MEDIUM; SAND PACK; SEDIMENT CORE; THERMAL TRANSFER;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CAPILLARITY; DISSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRATION; MASS TRANSFER; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 68049123094     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.05.043     Document Type: Article

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