SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2008.226 2008.226 Gas consumption of methane hydrate in water injection KimNam-Jin jnkim@cheju.ac.kr SeoHyang-Min shoo5029@cheju.ac.kr ParkSung-Seek pss5153@cheju.ac.kr ChunWon-Gee wgchun@cheju.ac.kr Kimchong-Bo cbkim@inha.ac.kr College of Engineering, Cheju National University, Jeju, Korea College of Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea 24082008 7 1 978-1-995850-08-5 1629 1635 24 August 2008 © 2008 Copyright WSSET 2008

When methane hydrate is artificially formed to store and transport large quantity of natural gas, its reaction time may be too long and the gas consumption in water becomes relatively low, because the reaction rate between water and methane gas is low. Therefore, the present investigation focuses on the rapid production of hydrates and increases the gas consumption by injecting water into methane gas utilizing nozzle. the hydrate in water injection using a nozzle formed rapidly more than that in gas injection, and the gas consumption of methane hydrate in water injection is about three to four times greater than that in gas injection according to subcooling.

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