Morphology of methane hydrate formation in porous media

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3364-3372

  Babu, Ponnivalavan ^a   Yee, Daryl ^b   Linga, Praveen ^a   Palmer, Andrew ^a   Khoo, Boo Cheong ^a   Tan, Thiam Soon ^a,c   Rangsunvigit, Pramoch ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYDRATE FORMATION; INTERCONNECTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL PORES; METHANE HYDRATES; SAND PARTICLES; WATER SATURATIONS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CRYSTALLIZERS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRATION; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICA SAND;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 84879329578     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef4004818     Document Type: Article

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