"Advances in the Study of Gas Hydrates" ed. by Charles E. Taylor, Jonathan T. Kwan

This volume is dedicated to gas hydrates: in fact, methane hydrates could provide a clean source of energy for several centuries.

Gas hydrates are a unique class of chemical compounds where molecules of one compound (the guest material) are enclosed, without bonding chemically, within an open solid lattice composed of another compound (the host material). These types of configurations are known as clathrates. The guest molecules, u- ally gases, are of an appropriate size such that they fit within the cage formed by the host material. Commonexamples of gas hydrates are carbon dioxide/water and methane/water clathrates. At standard pressure and temperature, methane hydrate contains by volume 180 times as much methane as hydrate.

Contents
Preface
Section I: Modeling of Hydrates
1 Towards a Full Dynamic Model of Hydrate Formation in Aqueous Solutions: Phase Field Theory of Nucleation and Growth
2 Statistical Thermodynamic Model of Clathrate Hydrates with Multiple Filling of Cages
3 Phenomenological Modeling of Hydrate Formation and Dissociation
4 Effect of Conductive and Convective Heat Flow on Gas Production from Natural Hydrates by Depressurization
5 An Application Used For Correcting Thermal Gradients Below Permafrost Using An Empirical Diffusion Model Anadarko's Hot Ice #1 Gas Hydrates Case Study
6 Gas Production from Class 1 Hydrate Accumulations

Section II: Detection of Hydrates
7 A Project Update of Methane Hydrate Production from Alaskan Permafrost
8 Seismic Detection and Quantification of Gas Hydrates using Rock Physics and Inversion
9 Experiment and Modeling of Hydrate Equilibrium Line in Gas, Gas Condensate, Black Oil, and Drilling Completion Fluids

Section III: Laboratory Studies of Hydrates
10 Solubility Measurements for C02 and Methane Mixture in Water and Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions near Hydrate Conditions
11 Nucleation Mechanisms of Clathrate Hydrates
12 The MSU Micellar-Solution Gas Hydrate Storage Process for Natural Gas
13 Enhancement in the Storage of Methane in Hydrates
14 Strength and Acoustic Properties of Ottawa Sand Containing Laboratory-Formed Methane Gas Hydrate
15 Investigating Methane Hydrate in Sediments using X-Ray Computed Tomography
16 Methane Hydrate Studies: Delineating Properties of Host Sediments to Establish Reproducible Decomposition Kinetics
Author Index
Keyword Index