Sentences with phrase «form gas hydrates»

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Gas hydrates naturally form along the coasts of continents and in Arctic permafrost, places where water and gas mix at relatively high pressure and low temperatuGas hydrates naturally form along the coasts of continents and in Arctic permafrost, places where water and gas mix at relatively high pressure and low temperatugas mix at relatively high pressure and low temperature.

«If the decomposition of the methane hydrate phase is fast enough, which depends on temperature, the methane gas in the aqueous phase forms nanobubbles,» said Saman Alavi, one of the lead researchers on the project.

«The gas hydrate pingos in permafrost are formed because of the low temperatures.

Naturally - occurring methane hydrates, hidden deep under the sea floor or tucked under Arctic permafrost, contain substantial natural gas reserves locked up in a form that is difficult to extract.

A crew of a dozen sailors, a geophysics professor, and two graduate students, we were combing the ocean floor for buried methane hydrate, an ice - like form of natural gas estimated to be more abundant than fossil fuels.

The key ingredient is gas hydrate, a substance that forms when hydrocarbon gases like methane and ethane come into contact with water at the right temperature and pressure.

When methane hydrates «melt,» they release the methane trapped inside the ice, but because the methane was first trapped under pressure when the hydrate was formed, one cubic metre of solid methane hydrate will release 160 cubic metres of methane gas.

Permafrost was known to contain gas hydrates — icelike mixtures of water and organic gases first identified in deep - sea sediments which form only at very high pressures and low temperatures.

The gas - phase results are consistent with the spontaneous hydrolysis of PaO2 + in aqueous solution, this in contrast to heavier actinide dioxides of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium; the heavier actinide dioxides form stable hydrates in both solution and gas phase.

However, if the seafloor is already saturated with gas and the process takes place very quickly, the released gases make their way to the seafloor, without forming new hydrates,» says Dr. Karstens.

«You release a hydrate and then form a hydrate, which is pretty cool,» he says, especially given that methane gas hydrates represent the most abundant global natural carbon resource.

Gas clathrate hydrates are ice - like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are trapped inside crystalline frameworks formed by water moleculGas clathrate hydrates are ice - like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are trapped inside crystalline frameworks formed by water moleculgas molecules or atoms are trapped inside crystalline frameworks formed by water molecules.

Nor do we adequately understand the relative contributions of microbes (i.e., biogenic methanogenesis), fossil sources, and the dissociation of gas hydrates (an ice - like substance formed by methane and water under pressure).

The most likely explanation is the mass release of methane from sediments on the sea floor, where the gas was sequestered, as it is now, in a solid form as methane hydrate.

In one study, Mao and colleagues subjected a mixture of hydrogen and water to a pressure of about 220 megapascals (2,000 times atmospheric pressure) at room temperature (300 K or 80 °F), which formed a clathrate hydrate — a cage - like framework of water molecules enclosing molecules of gas.

Basically, free gas co-exists with gas hydrate and a brine, and no additional gas hydrate can form, because the pore water is too salty.

In Siberian permafrost, large deposits of methane gas are trapped in ice, forming what is called a gas hydrate.

The lakes may also be storing large volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane, frozen in a form called methane hydrates.

Ice sheets are heavy and cold, providing pressure and temperatures that contain methane in form of ice - like substance called gas hydrate.

Methane release from stores of so - called gas hydrates, that can form on land or under the sea, is not new to researchers.

Researchers at Southern Methodist University will conduct numerical modeling, field data collection, and extensive laboratory analyses to characterize the state of the upper boundary of pressures and temperatures where gas hydrates are in a stable form on the Alaskan Beaufort continental slope.

The USGS, which announced the discovery, estimates there is about 700,000 tcf of gas hydrate worldwide, most of it below the ocean floors, where hydrates form under high pressure and cold temperatures.

Globally, gas hydrate — an icelike substance formed mainly of methane and water — is thought to be more abundant than oil, coal and conventional natural gas combined.

R&D ers have been talking up natural gas extraction from methane hydrates — a solid form of the greenhouse gas, found tucked away beneath the sea floor where low temperature and high pressure keep it stable.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.

Improvements in our understanding of clathrate chemistry and sedimentology have revealed that hydrates form in only a narrow range of depths (continental shelves), at only some locations in the range of depths where they could occur (10 - 30 % of the Gas hydrate stability zone), and typically are found at low concentrations (0.9 — 1.5 % by volume) at sites where they do occur.

Methane hydrates are believed to form by migration of gas from deep along geological faults, followed by precipitation or crystallization, on contact of the rising gas stream with cold sea water.

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The extra pressure from the glacier could have allowed a regional layer of gas hydrate to form at about 100 meters depth.

Government support will prioritize research into five types of renewables and energy forms: biomass fuels and biomass power, wind power, solar power, hydrogen energy and fuel cells, and natural gas hydrates, of which there is a large reserve in the South China Sea and which China recently succeeded in tapping.

Hydrates can form with almost any gas and consist of a «cage» of water molecules surrounding the gas.