Methanol incorporation in clathrate hydrates and the implications for oil and gas pipeline flow assurance and icy planetary bodies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8437-8442

  Shin, Kyuchul ^a,b   Udachin, Konstantin A ^a   Moudrakovski, Igor L ^a   Leek, Donald M ^a   Alavi, Saman ^a   Ratcliffe, Christopher I ^a   Ripmeester, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flow assurance; Molecular dynamics simulation; NMR spectra; Outer planets; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

CLATHRATE HYDRATE; METHANE; METHANOL; OIL; TETRAHYDROFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GAS PRESSURE GAUGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN BOND; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OIL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VAPOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84878165182     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302812110     Document Type: Article

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