| Title |
A Comparative Study on the Effect of THF and Oxidized Carbon Nanotubes for Methane Hydrate Formation |
| Authors |
박성식(Sung-Seek Park) ; 안응진(Eoung-Jin An) ; 김남진(Nam-Jin Kim) |
| Keywords |
메탄 하이드레이트 ; THF ; 산화탄소나노유체 ; 생성 ; 과냉도 Methane hydrate ; Tetrahydrofuran ; Oxidized carbon nanofluids ; Formation ; Subcooling |
| Abstract |
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. 1 m3 hydrate of pure methane can be decomposed to the methane gas of 172 m3 and water of 0.8 m3 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. |