Biochemical reaction and diffusion in seafloor gas hydrate capillaries: Implications for gas hydrate stability

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4278-4285

  Radich, J ^a   Rogers, R E ^a   French, W T ^a   Zhang, G ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Gas hydrate; Kinetics; Mathematical modeling; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC METHANE OXIDATIONS; BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; METHANOGENESIS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SEA FLOOR; SULFATE REDUCTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANE; SIMULATORS; STABILITY;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 68949098378     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.06.073     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Balut, Y.L. 2004. Marmara VT/Marmaracore 2. Cruise Report, Istanbul. 〈http://www.cdf.u-3mrs.fr/~henry/marmara/MarmaraVT.htm〉.
2. Bhatnagar G., Chapman W.G., Dickens G.R., Dugan B., and Hirasaki G.J. Generalization of gas hydrate distribution and saturation in marine sediments by scaling of thermodynamic and transport processes. American Journal of Science 307 (2007) 861-900
3. Bird R.B., Stewart W.E., and Lightfoot E.N. Transport Phenomena (2006), Wiley, New York
4. Chen D.-F., Zheng S., and Cathles L.M. Types of gas hydrates in marine environments and their thermodynamic characteristics. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 17 4 (2006) 723-737
5. Davie M.K., Zatsepina O.Y., and Buffett B.A. Methane solubility in marine hydrate environments. Marine Geology 203 (2004) 177-184
6. Dearman J.L. Gas Hydrate Formation in Gulf of Mexico Sediments (2007), Mississippi State University
7. Dearman, J.L., Wilson, W., Rogers, R.E., Zhang, G., 2008. Gas hydrate nucleating mechanism of near-surface sediments in the Gulf of Mexico.
8. Dickens G.R. Modeling the global carbon cycles with a gas hydrate capacitor: significance for the latest Paleocene thermal maximum. Geophysical Monograph 124 (2001) 19-38
9. Fogler H.S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (2005), Prentice-Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River
10. Formolo M.J., Lyons T.W., Zhang C., Kelley C., Sassen R., Horita J., et al. Quantifying carbon sources in the formation of authigenic carbonates at gas hydrate sites in the Gulf of Mexico. Chemical Geology 205 (2004) 253-264
11. 2 in gas from sediments of the Blake Outer Ridge. Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76 (1983)
12. Gering K.L. Simulations of methane hydrate phenomena over geologic timescales. Part I: effect of sediment compaction rates on methane hydrate and free gas accumulations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 206 (2003) 65-81
13. Hesselbo S.P., Grocke D.R., Jenkyns H.C., Bjerrum C.J., Farrlmond P., Morgans Bell H.S., et al. Massive dissociation of gas hydrate during a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event. Nature 406 (2000) 392-395
14. Hoehler T.A. Field and laboratory studies of methane oxidation in an anoxic marine sediment: evidence for a methanogen-sulfate reducer consortium. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 8 4 (1994) 451-463
15. Joye S.B., Boetius A., Orcutt B.N., Montoya J.P., Schulz H.N., Erickson M.J., et al. The anaerobic oxidation of methane and sulfate reduction in sediments from Gulf of Mexico cold seeps. Chemical Geology 205 (2004) 219-238
16. Kim Y.S., Lim B.D., Lee J.E., and Lee C.S. Solubilities of carbon dioxide, methane, and ethane in sodium chloride solution containing gas hydrate. Journal of Chemical Engineering Data 53 (2008) 1351-1354
17. Kniemeyer O., Musat F., Sievert S.M., Knittel K., Wilkes H., Blumenberg M., et al. Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons by marine sulphate-reducing bacteria. Nature 449 (2007) 898-902
18. Kuhs W.F., Klapproth A., Gotthardt F., Techmer K., and Heinrichs T. The formation of meso- and macroporous gas hydrates. Geophysical Research Letters 27 (2000) 2929-2932
19. Lahav N. Adsorption of sodium bentonite particles on Bacillus subtilis. Plant and Soil XVII (1962) 191-208
20. Lanoil B.D., Sassen R., Duc M.T., Sweet S.T., and Nealson K.H. Bacteria and Archaea physically associated with Gulf of Mexico gas hydrates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (2001) 5143-5153
21. Lapham, L., 2008. Personal Communication. Department of Energy Fellow at Florida State University (J. R. Radich, R. Rogers, G. Zhang Interviewers), Oxford, MS, February 27.
22. MacDonald I.R., Guinasso J.N., Sassen R., Brooks J.M., Lee L., and Scott K.T. Gas hydrate that breaches the sea floor on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico. Geology 22 (1994) 699-702
23. Milkov A.V., and Sassen R. Economic geology of offshore gas hydrate accumulations and provinces. Marine Petroleum Geology 19 (2002) 1-11
24. Milkov A.V., and Sassen R. Preliminary assessment of resources and economic potential of individual gas hydrate accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico continental slope. Marine Petroleum Geology 20 (2003) 111-128
25. Milkov A.V., Claypool G.E., Lee Y., and Sassen R. Gas hydrate systems at hydrate ridge offshore Oregon inferred from molecular and isotopic properties of hydrate-bound and void gases. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69 (2005) 1007-1026
26. Mills H.J., Hodges C., Wilson K., MacDonald I.R., and Sobecky P.A. Microbial diversity in sediments associated with surface-breaching gas hydrate mounds in the Gulf of Mexico. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 46 (2003) 39-52
27. Mills H.J., Martinez R.J., Story S., and Sobecky P. Characterization of microbial community structure in Gulf of Mexico gas hydrates: comparative analysis of DNA- and RNA-derived clone libraries. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 (2004) 3235-3247
28. Nauhaus K., Boetius A., Kruger M., and Widdel F. In vitro demonstration of anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulphate reduction in sediment from a marine gas hydrate area. Environmental Microbiology 4 (2002) 296-305
29. Nihous G.C., and Masutani S.M. Notes on the dissolution rate of gas hydrates in undersaturated water. Chemical Engineering Science 61 (2006) 7827-7830
30. Orcutt B.N., Boetius A., Lugo S.K., MacDonald I.R., Samarkin V.A., and Joye S.B. Life at the edges of methane ice: microbial cycling of carbon and sulfur in Gulf of Mexico gas hydrates. Chemical Geology 205 (2004) 239-251
31. Radich, J.G., Rogers, R.E., French, W.T., Zhang, G., 2008. Microbial and sediment effects on the kinetics of gas hydrate formation. American Chemical Society, Philadelphia.
32. Rogers R.E., Kothapalli C., Lee M.S., and Woolsey R. Catalysis of gas hydrates by biosurfactants in seawater saturated sand/clay. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 81 (2003) 973-980
33. Sassen R., Joye S., Sweet S.T., DeFreitas D.A., Milkov A.V., and MacDonald I.R. Thermogenic gas hydrates and hydrocarbon gases in complex chemosynthetic communities, Gulf of Mexico continental slope. Organic Geochemistry 30 (1999) 485-497
34. Sassen R., MacDonald I.R., Requejo A.G., Guinasso J.N., Kennicutt J.M., Sweet S.T., et al. Organic geochemistry of sediments from chemosynthetic communities, Gulf of Mexico slope. Geo-Marine Letters 14 (1994) 110-119
35. Sassen R., Roberts H., Carney R., Milkov A.V., DeFreitas D.A., Lanoil B., et al. Free hydrocarbon gas, gas hydrate, and authigenic minerals in chemosynthetic communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: relation to microbial processes. Chemical Geology 205 (2004) 195-217
36. Servio P., and Englezos P. Effect of temperature and pressure on the solubility of carbon dioxide in the presence of gas hydrate. Fluid Phase Equilibria 190 (2001) 127-134
37. Servio P., and Englezos P. Measurement of dissolved methane in water in equilibrium with its hydrate. Journal of Chemical Engineering Data 47 (2002) 87-90
38. Sloan E. Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases. second ed (1998), Dekker, New York
39. Sun R., and Duan Z. An accurate model to predict the thermodynamic stability of methane hydrate and methane solubility in marine environments. Chemical Geology 244 (2007) 248-262
40. van Dongen B.E., Roberts A.P., Schouten S., Jiang W., Florindo F., and Pancost R.D. Formation of iron sulfide nodules during anaerobic oxidation of methane. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (2007) 5155-5167
41. Volzone C., and Ortiga J. O2, CH4, and CO2 gas retentions by acid smectites before and after thermal treatment. Journal of Materials Science 35 (2000) 5291-5294
42. Waseda A. Organic carbon content, bacterial methanogenesis, and accumulation processes of gas hydrates in marine sediments. Geochemical Journal 32 (1998) 143-157
43. Woods C.E. Examination of the Effects of Biosurfactant Concentration on Natural Gas Hydrate Formation in Seafloor Porous Media (2004), Mississippi State University
44. Zhang C.L., Pancost R.D., Sassen R., Qian Y., and Macko S.A. Archaeal lipid biomarkers and isotopic evidence of anaerobic methane oxidation associated with gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. Organic Geochemistry 34 (2003) 827-836
45. Zhang G., Rogers R.E., French W.T., and Lao W. Investigations of microbial influences on gas-hydrate formation. Marine Chemistry 103 (2007) 359-369
46. Zhang Y., Holder G.D., and Warzinski R.P. Phase equilibrium in two-phase, water-rich-liquid, hydrate systems: experiment and theory. Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research 47 (2008) 459-469