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A Comparative Study on the Formation of Methane Hydrate Using Natural Zeolite and Synthetic Zeolite 5A

천연 제올라이트와 합성 제올라이트 5A를 이용한 메탄 하이드레이트의 생성에 대한 비교 연구

  • 박성식 (제주대학교 에너지공학과) ;
  • 박윤범 (제주국제대학교 자동차기계공학과) ;
  • 김남진 (제주대학교 에너지공학과)
  • Received : 2012.04.17
  • Accepted : 2012.06.12
  • Published : 2012.06.25
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Abstract

Natural gas hydrates have a high potential as the 21st century new energy resource, because it have a large amount of deposits in many deep-water and permafrost regions of the world widely. Natural gas hydrate is formed by physical binding between water molecule and gas mainly composed of methane, which is captured in the cavities of water molecules under the specific temperature and pressure. $1m^3$ methane hydrate can be decomposed to the methane gas of $172m^3$ and water of $0.8m^3$ at standard condition. Therefore, there are a lot of practical applications such as separation processes, natural gas storage transportation and carbon dioxide sequestration. For the industrial utilization of methane hydrate, it is very important to rapidly manufacture hydrate. However, when methane hydrate is artificially formed, its reaction time may be too long and the gas consumption in water becomes relatively low, because the reaction rate between water and gas is low. So in this study, hydrate formation was experimented by adding natural zeolite and Synthetic zeolite 5A in distilled water, respectively. The results show that when the Synthetic zeolite 5A of 0.01 wt% was, the amount of gas consumed during the formation of methane hydrate was higher than that in the natural zeolite. Also, the natural zeolite and Synthetic zeolite 5A decreased the hydrate formation time to a greater extent than the distilled water at the same subcooling temperature.

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