A new apparatus for seawater desalination by gas hydrate process and removal characteristics of dissolved minerals (Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, K+, B3+)

Influence of cationic and non-ionic surfactants on the kinetics of mixed hydrogen/tetrahydrofuran hydrates

“…This is a key attribute for gas hydrates in gas storage and transport applications. Other applications of gas hydrates are in gas separation (Babu et al, 2013a;Kang and Lee, 2000;Linga et al, 2007aLinga et al, , b, 2010Link et al, 2003;Torré et al, 2012), desalination (Babu et al, 2014;Cai et al, 2014;Park et al, 2011;Sun et al, 2004) and cold storage (Shi and Zhang, 2013;Xie et al, 2010;Zhang and Ma, 2012).…”

Formation kinetics of cyclopentane–methane binary clathrate hydrate

“…First discovered by Davy (1811), clathrate hydrates long remained a scientific curiosity and attracted considerable attention only after being found responsible for pipeline obstructions in oil production (Sloan and Koh, 2007). Hydrate formation is potentially beneficial in other instances, however, such as natural gas storage Thomas and Dawe, 2003;Khokhar et al, 1998;Kumar et al, 2008;Sloan, 2003), CO 2 capture and sequestration (Yamasaki et al, 2000;Saji et al, 1992;Mondal et al, 2012;Ho et al, 2013;Babu et al, 2013;Lee et al, 2010;Linga et al, 2007a), gas separation (Kamata et al, 2005;Lee et al, 2009;Cha et al, 2010), H 2 storage (Florusse et al, 2004;Strobel et al, 2006;Lee, H. et al, 2005;Anderson et al, 2007) and desalination (Bradshaw et al, 2007;Niblock, 1998, 2000;Cha and Seol, 2013;Park et al, 2011;Mccormack and Ripmeester, 2013), which encourages further studies on the thermodynamic stability and formation rates of hydrates so that economically viable hydrate-based processes could be developed.…”

Rapid and repeatable methane storage in clathrate hydrates using gel-supported surfactant dry solution

“…It was reported that per unit volume hydrate could stably capture about 180 standard volumes natural gas (Sloan Contents and Koh, 2008), which is close to the energy density of compressed natural gas (about 200 standard m 3 m À 3 ) under 20 MPa. In addition, excellent stability and high storage capacity of hydrates have promoted the development of gas separation (Fan et al, 2009;Liu et al, 2014;Babu et al, 2015), carbon dioxide capture (Linga et al, 2007;Gholinezhad et al 2011;Babu et al, 2013aBabu et al, , 2013bZhong et al, 2015aZhong et al, , 2015b, seawater desalination (Park et al, 2011;Babu et al, 2014), solute purification (Yoon and Lee, 1997), juice concentration (Li et al, 2015) and hydrogen storage (Mao et al, 2002;Struzhkin et al, 2007) in the form of hydrate.…”