Recovery of methane from a variable-volume bed of silica sand/hydrate by depressurization

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2947-2955

  Haligva, Cef ^a   Linga, Praveen ^a   Ripmeester, John A ^b   Englezos, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; DEPRESSURIZATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FREEZING POINT; GAS RECOVERY; HYDRATE FORMATION; INITIAL RATE; INTERSTITIAL SPACE; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; METHANE GAS; METHANE HYDRATES; METHANE RECOVERY; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SAND PARTICLES;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRATION; METHANE; RECOVERY; SILICA; SILICA SAND; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 77952727072     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef901220m     Document Type: Article

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