Environmentally Friendly CO2 Storage in Hydrate Reservoirs Benefits From Associated Spontaneous Methane Production
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Abstract
Abstract Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of core plug experiments shows that CO2 storage in gas hydrates in porous rock results in spontaneous production of methane, with no associated water production. Exposing methane hydrate to liquid CO2 causes methane production from the hydrate that indicates an exchange of methane molecules with CO2 molecules within the hydrate; without addition of heat. Thermodynamic simulations based on Phase Field theory support this assumption and predict similar methane production rates observed in several reproduced experiments. 3D-visualizations of the formation of hydrates in the porous rock and the methane production improve the interpretation of the experiments. Sequestering a greenhouse gas while simultaneously producing the freed natural gas may offer access to the significant amount of energy bound in hydrates and may offer an attractive potential for CO2 storage. Relative to the potential danger of catastrophic dissociation of hydrate structures, and corresponding collapse of geological formations, the increased thermodynamic stability of the CO2 hydrate relative to the natural gas hydrate is also a positive issue related to the combined CO2 storage and gas exploitation strategy. Introduction Storage of CO2 in natural gas hydrate reservoirs by replacing the CH4 in the hydrate with CO2 may have some significant attractive potential as this would provide free natural gas and establish a thermodynamically more stable hydrate accumulation. From an energy perspective natural gas hydrates may represent an enormous energy potential as the total energy corresponding to natural gas entrapped in hydrate reservoirs might be more than twice the energy of all known energy sources of coal, oil and gas 1. The abundance and locations of the natural gas hydrate reserves covers all continents. The source of the methane can be either the microbial degradation of organic matter in shallower sediments or deeper-seated thermogenic methane accumulations. Thermodynamic stability of the hydrate is sensitive to local temperature and pressure but all components in the hydrate have to be in equilibrium with the surroundings if the hydrate is to be thermodynamically stable. Natural gas hydrate accumulations are therefore rarely in a state of complete stability in a strict thermodynamic sense. More typically the hydrate is trapped between clay layers or other structures of low permeability that keeps the system in a state of very slow dynamics. Gas hydrate exposed towards the seafloor will dissociate more rapidly due to very low content of hydrocarbons in the surroundings, as can be observed many places around the world. Even though some of the released methane will be consumed by biological and chemical ecosystems the net flux of methane reaching the surface represents an environmental concern since methane is a more aggressive (~ 25 times) greenhouse gas than CO2. Although different ecosystems (biological, inorganic, organic) will consume some of the released methane the total flux of methane leaking to the atmosphere is a concern. However, a more serious concern is related to the stability of these hydrate formations.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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