gas hydrates
...molecules such as methane and ethane - A clump of gas hydrates look much like a snowball…you could set it on fire and watch it burn with a clean blue flame! Where is it found? - NB: It is the source of natural gas that is abundant in its reserves; double those of all other known fossil fuel reserves - deposits are found beneath certain parts of the ocean and under many regions of permafrost - most stable in areas with high pressure and low temp - when they are stable, methane molecules are eventually trapped in icy crystalline cages - large deposits have been found off the shore of Japan, the US eastern seaboard, and along the continental margins of Vancouver and New Zealand General - we use methane to provide us with 25% of the energy we use - @ STP, one volume of saturated methane hydrate will contain as much as 189 volumes of methane gas - this large gas storage capacity of gas hydrates may provide an important source of natural gas - we use 7 trillion cubic feet/month of gas - 1 trillion cubic feet= 30 soccer fields each having the dimensions 30x30x30 Gas Hydrates What are they? Q: Anyone ever heard of gas hydrates? Know what they are? - Well, they are simply, CH4 + H2O trapped Gas hydrate (show on board) - Scientifically, they are small cage-like structures of ice or really, hollow crystals (tight lattice work) of water molecules with a single molecule of methane inside -can only hold small gas molecules such as methane and ethane - A clump of gas hydrates look much like a snowball…you could set it on fire and watch it burn with a clean blue flame! Where is it found? - NB: It is the source of natural gas that is abundant in its reserves; double those of all other known fossil fuel reserves - deposits are found beneath certain parts of the ocean and under many regions of permafrost - most stable in areas with high pressure and low temp - when they are stable, methane molecules are eventually trapped in icy crystalline cages - large deposits have been found off the shore of Japan, the US eastern seaboard, and along the continental margins of Vancouver and New Zealand General - we use methane to provide us with 25% of the energy we use - @ STP, one volume of saturated methane hydrate will contain as much as 189 volumes of methane gas - this large gas storage capacity of gas hydrates may provide an important source of natural gas - we use 7 trillion cubic feet/month of gas - 1 trillion cubic feet= 30 soccer fields each having the dimensions 30x30x30 Gas Hydrates What are they? Q: Anyone ever heard of gas hydrates? Know what they are? - Well, they are simply, CH4 + H2O trapped Gas hydrate (show on board) - Scientifically, they are small cage-like structures of ice or really, hollow crystals (tight lattice work) of water molecules with a single molecule of methane inside -can only hold small gas molecules such as methane and ethane - A clump of gas hydrates look much like a snowball…you could set it on fire and watch it burn with a clean blue flame! Where is it found? - NB: It is the source of natural gas that is abundant in its reserves; double those of all other known fossil fuel reserves - deposits are found beneath certain parts of the ocean and under many regions of permafrost - most stable in areas with high pressure and low temp - when they are stable, methane molecules are eventually trapped in icy crystalline cages - large deposits have been found off the shore of Japan, the US eastern seaboard, and along the continental margins of Vancouver and New Zealand General - we use methane to provide us with 25% of the energy we use - @ STP, one volume of saturated methane hydrate will contain as much as 189 volumes of methane gas - this large gas storage capacity of gas hydrates may provide an important source of natural gas - we use 7 trillion cubic feet/month of gas - 1 trillion cubic feet= 30 soccer fields each having the dimensions 30x30x30 Gas Hydrates What are they? Q: Anyone ever heard of gas hydrates? Know what they are? - Well, they are simply, CH4 + H2O trapped Gas hydrate (show on board) - Scientifically, they are small cage-like structures of ice or really, hollow crystals (tight lattice work) of water molecules with a single molecule of methane inside -can only hold small gas molecules such as methane and ethane - A clump of gas hydrates look much like a snowball…you could set it on fire and watch it burn with a clean blue flame! Where is it found? - NB: It is the source of natural gas that is abundant in its reserves; double those of all other known fossil fuel reserves - deposits are found beneath certain parts of the ocean and under many regions of permafrost - most stable in areas with high pressure and low temp - when they are stable, methane molecules are eventually trapped in icy crystalline cages - large deposits have been found off the shore of Japan, the US eastern seaboard, and along the continental margins of Vancouver and New Zealand General - we use methane to provide us with 25% of the energy we use - @ STP, one volume of saturated methane hydrate will contain as much as 189 volumes of methane gas - this large gas storage capacity of gas hydrates may provide an important source of natural gas - we use 7 trillion cubic feet/month of gas - 1 trillion cubic feet= 30 soccer fields each having the dimensions 30x30x30 Gas Hydrates What are they? Q: Anyone ever heard of gas hydrates? Know what they are? - Well, they are simply, CH4 + H2O trapped Gas hydrate (show on board) - Scientifically, they are small cage-like structures of ice or really, hollow crystals (tight lattice work) of water molecules with a single molecule of methane inside -can only hold small gas molecules such as methane and ethane - A clump of gas hydrates look much like a snowball…you could set it on fire and watch it burn with a clean blue flame! Where is it found? - NB: It is the source of natural gas that is abundant in its reserves; double those of all other known fossil fuel reserves - deposits are found beneath certain parts of the ocean and under many regions of permafrost - most stable in areas with high pressure and low temp - when they are stable, methane molecules are eventually trapped in icy crystalline cages - large deposits have been found off the shore of Japan, the US eastern seaboard, and along the continental margins of Vancouver and New Zealand General - we use methane to prov...