• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.519-523
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• 2007

Gas(or methane) hydrates are solid solutions when water molecules are linked through hydrogen bonding and create host lattice cavities that can enclose a large variety of guest gas molecules. The natural gas hydrate crystal may exist at low temperature above the normal freezing point of water and high pressure greater than about 30 bars. A lot of quantities of natural gas hydrates exists in the earth and many production schemes are being studied. In the present investigation, depressurization method was considered to predict the production of gas and the simulation of the two phase flow - gas and water - in porous media is being carried out. The simulation show about the fluid flow in porous media have a variety of applications in industry. Results provide the appearance of gas and water production, the pressure profile, the saturation of gas/ water/ hydrates profiles and the location of the pressure front.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.615-617
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• 2005

[ $^{13}C$ ] NMR spectra were obtained for pure $CH_4$ hydrate in order to identify hydrate structure and cage occupancy of guest molecule. The NMR technique can provide both qualitative and quantitative hydrate characteristics. The moles of methane captured into pure $CH_4$ hydrate per mole of water were found to be similar to the full occupancy value. The overall results drawn from this study can be usefully applied to storage and transportation of natural gas.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 개선된 view cell 실험 장치를 통하여 가스 하이드레이트 생성 과정을 관찰하고 이의 동특성을 고찰하였다. 순수한 물과 촉진제로 음이온계 계면활성제를 미량 첨가한 물에 천연가스를 넣어 가스 하이드레이트를 생성 과정을 관찰하였다. 본 실험에서 사용한 276.65 K, 6 MPa 조건 상태에서는 충분한 지체 지연 시간이후 물에 순간 교반을 줌으로써 형성자 생성을 쉽게 유도할 수 있었다. 가스 하이드레이트 필름의 생성은 정적상태에서 가스와 접촉된 물의 표면에 생성되었다. 이는 육안으로 구분하기 어려운 매우 얇은 막이 수초 안에 물의 표면 전체를 덮는 선행과정과 이후 다시 육안관찰이 쉬운 필름층이 재생성되었다. 순수한 물에는 짧고 굵은 섬유 다발의 형태로 끝 부분이 둥글게 말려서 결정이 형성된 모습인 반면 촉진제를 넣은 경우 작은 섬유 다발 형태로 길게 생성되었고 다른 다발과 접촉되어 엉킨 결정 상상을 보였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.597-599
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• 2007

Studies on the hydrocarbons in shallow sediments of the East Sea of Korea have been carried out by the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) since 2000. 4946 L-km of 2D multichannel reflection seismic data, 3250 L-km of high-resolution Chirp profiles and 16 selected piston cores were analyzed to determine the presence of hydrocarbons in shallow sediments of the western deep-water Ulleung Basin. The seismic data show a number of blanking zones that probably reflect widespread fluid and gas venting. The blanking zones are often associated with velocity pull-up structures. These upwelling structures are interpreted to be the result of high-velocity natural gas hydrate. There are also several bottom-simulating reflectors that are associated with free gas and probably overlying gas hydrate. Numerous pockmarks were also observed in the Chirp profiles. They are seafloor depressions caused by the removal of near-seafloor soft sediments by escaping of fluid and gas. In piston cores, cracks generally oriented parallel to bedding suggest significant gas content some of which may have been contained in gas hydrate in situ.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.192-195
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• 2008

Conventional gas deposits consist of pressurized gas held in porous and permeable reservoir rocks and its recovery takes place where the natural pressure of the gas reservoir forces gas to the surface. But gas hydrate is a crystalline solid, its prospects require reservoir rock properties approprate porosity, permeability with mapping of temperature and pressure conditions to define the hydrate stability zone. In this study, we have carried out to investigate the dissociation characteristics of methane hydrates and the productivities of dissociated gas and water with depressurization scheme. Also, it has been conducted the flowing behavior of the dissociated gas and water in porous rock and the efficiency of the production.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2006

In Japan, research and development were undertaken on gas hydrate-side industrial processes associated with power generation system connections that may particularly be necessary to develop gas hydrated technology-based industrial systems. In so doing, data and engineering technologies useful n formulating guidelines on design of practical process were accumulated. In addition, basic research into theoretical evidence were carried out to promote and support the development of technological elements for those processes. In basic research designed to promote and support the research and development of elemental technologies, microanalyses were conducted to understand the decomposition mechanism of mixed gas hydrate. Moreover, measurement technologies that can be applied in industrial processes, such as numerical analyses and concentration measurement, were examined. Japan has developed a highly efficient gas hydrate formation process using micro-bubbles with a tubular reactor. Higher formation rate over conventional systems has been obtained by the process. As mentioned above, the technical problems were clarified and the economics were studied from a view point of the NGH technology in this study. The results can be applied for utilization and must contribute to popularization of gas hydrate production.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.511-514
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• 2007

Gas hydrate has a unique property that can store a large volume of gas in water as a solid form. Even though investigations for natural gas storage technology have been carried out for several decades, there are still a lot of unsolved problems due to complex formation process, low formation speed, high energy consumption and so on. So, lots of experiments were conducted to overcome these weaknesses and to develop artificial NGH formation technology applicable to industrial-scale storage and commercial transport. In this study, some series of experiments were performed to analyze both stirred and unstirred system especially about the influences of several gas hydrate formation factors such as agitation speed, system temperature, SDS concentration, etc. As a result, optimum range of SDS concentration and temperature that could enhance the storage capacity and shorten the formation time were found. And it is obviously presented that SDS such a kind of surfactant promotes gas hydrate formation dramatically and the quantity of stored gas are proportional to agitation speed in stirred system.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.415-418
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• 2006

In Japan, research and development were undertaken on gas hydrate-side industrial processes associated with power generation system connections that may particularly be necessary to develop gas hydrated technology-based industrial systems. In so doing, data and engineering technologies useful n formulating guidelines on design of practical process were accumulated. In addition, basic research into theoretical evidence were carried out to promote and support the development of technological elements for those processes. In basic research designed to promote and support the research and development of elemental technologies microanalyses were conducted to understand the decomposition mechanism of mixed gas hydrate. Moreover, measurement technologies that can be applied in industrial processes, such as numerical analyses and concentration ion measurement, were examined. Japan has developed a highly efficient gas hydrate formation process using micro-bubbles with a tubular reactor. Higher formation rate over conventional systems has been obtained by the process. As mentioned above, the technical problems were clarified and the economics were studied from a view point of the NGH technology in this study. The results can be applied for utilization and must contribute to popularization of gas hydrate production.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.769-775
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• 2011

Methane hydrate is formed by physical binding between water molecules and methane gas, which is captured in the cavities of water molecules under the specific temperature and pressure. $1m^3$ hydrate of pure methane 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 hydrate, it is very important to rapidly manufacture hydrate. So in this study, hydrate formation was experimented by adding THF and oxidized carbon nanotubes in distilled water, respectively. The results show that when the oxidized carbon nanofluids of 0.03 wt% was, the amount of gas consumed during the formation of methane hydrate was higher than that in the THF aqueous solution. Also, the oxidized carbon nanofluids decreased the hydrate formation time to a greater extent than the THF aqueous solution at the same subcooling temperature.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.165-176
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• 2005

심해저 퇴적물에 분포하는 천연가스는 물리, 화학적인 조건에 따라서 세 가지 상(phase)으로 존재한다. 즉, 공극수에 녹아있는 가스의 농도가 용해도 이하이면 용존 가스 형태로 존재할 것이며, 용해도 이상이면 자유가스가(free gas) 형성될 것이며, 자유가스를 포함하는 해저 퇴적물이 저온 고압 조건인 하이드레이트 안정 지역이라면 가스 하이드레이트로 존재한다. 심해저 퇴적물내의 가스의 농도를 정확히 파악할 수 있다면 천연가스와 하이드레이트의 형성과 분포를 예측할 수 쳐다. 그러나, 해저 퇴적물 내에 포함되어 있는 가스의 양을 정확히 측정하는 것은 매우 어렵다. 심해저 퇴적층에서 가스를 채취하는 방법으로 널리 이용되는 공기층 가스 기법을 이용하여 퇴적물내의 가스의 양을 가늠하는 것은 천부 퇴적층에서만 가능하고 심부 지층에서 채취한 가스는 코어 회수와 시료 채취 과정에서 대부분의 가스가 유실되고 극히 일부만 정량 분석된다. 압력 코어(Pressure Core Sampler PCS)는 길이 $1{\cal}m$, 반경 $4.32{\cal}cm$ 규격으로 총 $1,465cm^3$의 퇴적물을 68.9 Mpa 압력 하에서 채취하는 장비이다. ODP Leg 204 시추 동안에 총 6개 지점(site) 에서 압력 코어를 사용하여 각 시추 지점에서 심도에 따른 퇴적물내의 가스의 양과 가스 하이드레이트의 분포를 측정하였다. 분석 결과 시추 위치에 따라서 가스 농도 및 분포 특성이 서로 다르게 나타났다. 하이드레이트 릿지(Hydrate Ridge)의 정상 주변에는 해저면 퇴적물에 메탄가스가 과포화되어 있고 정상 측면 및 분지지역에는 일부 심도의 퇴적물에서만 과포화되어 있었다. 하이드레이트 릿지의 가스 하이드레이트 분포는 압력 코어에 의해서 측정한 현장(in-situ)의 가스 농도 특성과 매우 밀접한 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다.