Currently, natural gas hydrates (NGHs) have been proposed as promising and environmentally friendly carbon-based energy sources that are beneficial for mitigating the traditional crises [...]

The high-pressure structural behavior of the noble gas (Ng) clathrate hydrates $\mathrm{Ar}\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi{}6.5\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O}$ and $\mathrm{Xe}\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi{}7.2\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O}$ featuring cubic structures II I, respectively, was investigated by neutron powder diffra...

Проведен анализ современного состояния экспериментальных и теоретических исследований упругих свойств гидратосодержащих пористых сред. Сделан вывод о том, что во всех экспериментах установлена связь скоростей волн с содержанием гидрата в поровом пространстве, а именно, наблюдается рост увеличением гидратонасыщенности. В области созданы математические модели модулей сред, позволяющие качественно...

Vast quantities of methane are trapped in oceanic hydrate deposits, and there is concern that a rise in the ocean temperature will induce dissociation of these hydrate accumulations, potentially releasing large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. The recent discovery of active methane gas venting along the landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) on the shallow continental sl...

margins contain vast reserves of gas hydrate, a frozen form of natural gas that is embedded in cold, near-seafloor strata. Published estimates suggest that the energy represented by gas hydrate may exceed the energy available from conventional fossil fuel by a factor of 2 or more. Understanding marine hydrate systems has become critical for long-term worldwide energy planning. Groups in several...

Researchers at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have been investigating the formation of synthetic gas hydrates, with an emphasis on rapid and continuous hydrate formation techniques. The investigations focused on unconventional methods to reduce dissolution, induction, nucleation and crystallization times associated with natural and synthetic hydrates studies conducted in the...

It is established that late-twentieth and twenty-first century ocean warming has forced dissociation of gas hydrates with concomitant seabed methane release. However, recent dating of methane expulsion sites suggests that gas release has been ongoing over many millennia. Here we synthesize observations of ∼1,900 fluid escape features--pockmarks and active gas flares--across a previously glaciat...

[1] The climate response to a massive release of methane from gas hydrates is simulated in two 2500-year-long numerical experiments performed with a three-dimensional, global coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean model of intermediate complexity. Two different equilibrium states were used as reference climates; the first state with preindustrial forcing conditions and the second state with a four ti...