Identification of conditions for increased methane storage capacity in sII and sH clathrate hydrates from Monte Carlo simulations Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 Elsevier Ltd The current study utilizes Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations in order to calculate the amount of methane gas that can be stored inside hydrate structures sII and sH. The temperature and pressure conditions examined include those of interest to the industrial methane transportation, and the storage of methane in industrial settings or naturally-occurring hydrate deposits. To this purpose, the amount of methane stored in the different type of cages that form the hydrate structures is presented as Langmuir-type absorption isotherms, which are functions of pressure, temperature and hydrate structure. The obtained expressions are subsequently used in order to identify conditions (i.e., pressure temperature, hydrate promoter molecular weight, and cage fraction occupied by the hydrate promoter) where the considered hydrate structures can have storage capacities that are higher than the storage capacity of the more common sI methane hydrate. The results are also discussed in the context of storage capacities of natural hydrates that are under conditions of existing hydrate-bearing sediments.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Papadimitriou, N. I., Tsimpanogiannis, I. N., Economou, I. G., & Stubos, A. K.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • Papadimitriou, Nikolaos I||Tsimpanogiannis, Ioannis N||Economou, Ioannis G||Stubos, Athanassios K

publication date

  • February 2018