Recovery of Methane by CO2 in Clathrate Hydrate.

Accession number;02A0335455
Title;Recovery of Methane by CO2 in Clathrate Hydrate.
Author; NORIKYO ITSUO (Hokuriku Electr. Power Co.,) KAWAMURA KAZUSHIGE (Chiyoda Corp.) MURATSUBAKI RYOJI (Sugino Machine Ltd.)
Journal Title;Program and Abstracts of Papers. High Pressure Conference of Japan
Journal Code:L1222A
ISSN:0917-6373
VOL.42nd;NO.;PAGE.37(2001)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;"Injection of liquid CO2 in hydrate layers of natural gas is a promising technique to recover CH4 simultaneously segregating CO2 from the biosphere. This work examined the rate of the conversion of CH4-hydrate immersed in liquid CO2 to CO2-hydrate in a temperature range of 274-281K and the pressure range of 4-10 MPa. The recovery rate as the temperature increased, it decreased as the total pressure increased. At 10 MPa,281K, about 17% of the methane by CO2 was recovered after 300 hours and continues for long time. The configuration of the system should be investigated in a feasibility study, including the recovery system for methane [disposal of CO2, methane hydrate, CO2 hydrate,displacement]" (author abst.)