Abstract
Gas hydrates are crystalline solids that form from mixtures of water and light natural gas such as methane, carbon dioxide, ethane, propane and butane. They are of considerable interest for their potential as an energy resource and for their role in global warming. From an energy resource point of view, the enormous amounts of methane hydrate under the ocean and beneath arctic permafrost represent an estimate 53% of all fossil fuel (coal, oil, natural gas) reserves on earth, about 10,000 gigatons. The difficulty with recovering this source of energy is that the fuel is in solid form and is not amenable to conventional gas and oil recovery techniques.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 151-154 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry, Preprints |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - 26 Mar 2000 |