Journal
KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 33, Issue 7, Pages 2050-2062Publisher
KOREAN INSTITUTE CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11814-016-0039-0
Keywords
Gas Hydrates; Methane Hydrate; Morphology; Hollow Silica; Gas Storage
Funding
- National University of Singapore [R-279-000-420-750, R-261-508-001-646, R-261-508-001-733]
- GEOSCAPE project of NGRI under the 12th Five Year Scientific Program of CSIR
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Methane hydrates are studied extensively as a prospective medium for storing and transporting natural gas due to their inherent advantages, including high volumetric energy storage density, being environmentally benign and extremely safe method compared to conventional compression and liquefaction methods. Enhanced formation kinetics of methane hydrates has been reported in hollow silica due to the increased gas/liquid contact surface area available for efficient conversion of water to hydrates. This work elucidates the mechanism of methane hydrate formation in light weight hollow silica. Hollow silica-to-water ratio was varied and its effect on the methane hydrate formation/dissociation morphology was observed. There exists a critical hollow silica-to-water ratio (1 : 6) beyond which the hydrates preferentially crystallize on the top of the bed by drawing water from the interstitial pores, whereas below this ratio the hydrate formation occurs within the bed between inter-particular spaces of hollow silica. Due to the very low bulk density, a small fraction of hollow silica was observed to be displaced from the bed during the hydrate formation above the critical hollow silica to water ratio.
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