Recovery of methane from hydrate formed in a variable volume bed of silica sand particles

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5508-5516

  Linga, Praveen ^a   Haligva, Cef ^a   Nam, Sung Chan ^b   Ripmeester, John A ^c   Englezos, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; DECOMPOSITION OF METHANE; DIFFERENT SIZES; HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; INTERSTITIAL SPACE; METHANE RECOVERY; MICROPOROUS; PORE DIAMETERS; SAND PARTICLES; SIMULATED DATA; THERMAL STIMULATION; TWO STAGE; VARIABLE VOLUME;

HYDRATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METHANE; SILICA; SILICA SAND;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 73249134405     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef900543v     Document Type: Article

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