Kinetic, equilibrium and morphology study of gas hydrates systems

由于我们全球大部分石油所在国家的政府不稳定，我们被迫寻找替代能源。天然气水合物是这场危机的一个可能的解决方案，因为它们拥有巨大的储能。水合物储量超过了传统的碳储量，而且主要含有天然气，这是所有可用化石燃料中最清洁的燃烧方式。它们还被视为一种潜在的方法，可以消除火力发电厂的有害二氧化碳排放，以遵守《京都议定书》。拟议的研究计划将试图为设计安全、经济和环境可接受的处理水合物形成系统的工艺和设施提供必要的信息，并为开发作为未来能源的就地甲烷水合物提供必要的信息。这项工作的成果有可能使加拿大走在与回收、储存和运输以水合物形式捕获的天然气以及捕获和储存二氧化碳排放有关的技术前沿。这项工作将主要对甲烷和二氧化碳水合物进行，并可分解为这些水合物体系的相平衡、形态和动力学研究。

Due to government instability in countries where most of our global oil resides, we are forced to look for alternative sources of energy. Gas hydrates are a possible solution to this crisis because of the enormous amount of stored energy they possess. Hydrate reserves exceed conventional carbon reserves and mostly contain natural gas, the cleanest burning of all available fossil fuels. They are also being viewed as a potential method for removing harmful carbon dioxide emissions from thermal power plants in order to abide by the Kyoto protocol. The proposed research program will attempt to provide necessary information for the design of safe, economical, and environmentally acceptable processes and facilities to deal with hydrate-forming systems, and for the exploitation of in-situ methane hydrate as a future energy resource. The outcome of such work has the potential to place Canada at the forefront of technology related to the recovery, storage and transportation of natural gas trapped in hydrate form as well as carbon dioxide emissions capture and storage. The work will primarily be performed on methane and carbon dioxide hydrates and can be broken down into phase equilibria, morphology and kinetics studies of these hydrate systems.