Scribd
Upload
5 views

GAS HYDRATES

Gas hydrates are crystalline solids made of water and methane, found in large quantities in marine sediments and permafrost. They are significant as a potential energy resource, a hazard to sea floor stability, and an environmental concern due to methane's greenhouse gas properties. Gas hydrates form under specific conditions of low temperature and high pressure, creating stable cage-like structures that trap gas molecules.

Uploaded by

Raveena R V
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
5 views

GAS HYDRATES

Gas hydrates are crystalline solids made of water and methane, found in large quantities in marine sediments and permafrost. They are significant as a potential energy resource, a hazard to sea floor stability, and an environmental concern due to methane's greenhouse gas properties. Gas hydrates form under specific conditions of low temperature and high pressure, creating stable cage-like structures that trap gas molecules.

Uploaded by

Raveena R V
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

GAS

HYDRATES
• Gas hydrates are a crystalline solid formed of water and gas.
• It looks and acts much like ice, but it contains huge amounts of
methane.
• It is known to occur on every continent, and it exists in huge quantities
in marine sediments in a layer several hundred meters thick directly
below the sea floor and in association with permafrost in the Arctic.
• It is not stable at normal sea-level pressures and temperatures, which is
the primary reason that it is a challenge to study.
• Gas hydrates are important for three reasons:
• They may contain a major energy resource.
• It may be a significant hazard because it alters sea floor sediment
stability, influencing collapse and land sliding
• The hydrate reservoir may have strong influence on the environment
and climate, because methane is a significant greenhouse gas.
• It is known that some polar
components between the sizes of
argon (0.35 nm) and ethyl
cyclohexane (0.9 - 1) can also
form hydrates.
• Natural gas hydrates commonly
called gas hydrates the crystalline
compounds formed when water
molecule and methane gas exist
together at the right temperature
and pressure. Methane hydrate is
stable at a temperature slightly
above or below 0˚C with high
pressure.
Gas hydrates deposits compared with other
fuel resources, units = 1015 g of carbon
• Hydrate deposits are generally found in waters deeper than 300 m
• Their zones of existence is from seafloor to a depth of few hundred
metres and this is also a function of the local thermal gradient.
• Based on research and investigation, huge amount of methane gas is
believed to be trapped in the hydrate deposits as well as the sediments
beneath these deposits.
• Exploration and development of gas hydrate reserves is the key
solution to unlimited supply of energy.
• This source of energy is pure and environmentally friendly.
• They are restricted to the shallow lithosphere(2000m – 4000m depth).
FORMATION OF GAS HYDRATES
• When water molecules come in contact with gas molecules at low
temperature and high pressure, different geometric structures
contrary to that of a hexagonal ice are formed.
• The water molecules serve as host molecules and create cage lattices
that can hold gas molecules as guest molecules.
• These cage-like crystalline structures are less dense than crystalline
water structure because of the presence of the gas molecules.
• The gas hydrate formed is held together by the hydrogen bonds of the
water molecules and also stabilized by Vander Waals forces holding
the gas and water molecules together.
• The Vander Waals force is responsible for the stable nature of the gas
hydrate and even makes the hydrate more stable than normal ice
formed by water.

You might also like

pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy