Formation and dissociation kinetics of methane hydrates in seawater and silica sand

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2708-2716

  Mekala, Prathyusha ^a,b   Babu, Ponnivalavan ^a   Sangwai, Jitendra S ^b   Linga, Praveen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRATION; KINETICS; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; SALTS; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CONSTANT PRESSURES; DISSOCIATION KINETICS; HYDRATE FORMATION; METHANE GAS HYDRATES; METHANE HYDRATE FORMATION AND DISSOCIATIONS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; THERMAL STIMULATION; THERMODYNAMIC INHIBITORS;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 84899001435     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef402445k     Document Type: Article

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