Mathematical modeling of gas production from gas hydrate reservoirs ...

• Main Author: Shahbazi, Amir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Calgary 2010
• Subjects: Northwest Territories; permafrost; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/3342; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/104343

Bibliography: p. 292-303 ... : Enormous quantities of methane gas are trapped in the form of hydrate in permafrost and offshore environments. As a result of increasing world energy demand, gas hydrates, which are natural gas molecules trapped in the structure of solid water molecule are being considered as a potential resource for clean energy. Much interest and research have been devoted in the last two decades towards the mathematical modeling of hydrate decomposition and gas production from hydrate reservoirs. Large resources of hydrate have been explored worldwide, including in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia, Alaska and Japan. The main mechanisms involved in the process of hydrate decomposition and gas production are thermodynamic and kinetics of decomposition, heat transfer by convection and conduction, and gas-water two-phase flow. In addition to finding an appropriate mathematical method to solve the system of nonlinear equations, the treatment of the multi-scale physics that exists in the process of decomposition is ...