Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores
International audience Understanding the mechanisms involved in the formation and growth of methane hydrate in marine sandy sediments is crucial for investigating the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of gas hydrate marine sediments. In this study, high-resolution optical microscopy and synchrotron X...
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ftuniparissaclay:oai:HAL:hal-03354967v1 2023-12-03T10:25:46+01:00 Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores Le, Thi, Xiu Bornert, Michel Brown, Ross Aimedieu, Patrick Broseta, Daniel Chabot, Baptiste King, Andrew Tang, Anh, Minh Laboratoire Navier (NAVIER UMR 8205) École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux (IPREM) Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR) TOTAL FINA ELF-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021-09-09 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967/document https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967/file/energies-14-05672.pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185672 en eng HAL CCSD MDPI info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/en14185672 hal-03354967 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967 https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967/document https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967/file/energies-14-05672.pdf doi:10.3390/en14185672 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1996-1073 Energies https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-03354967 Energies, 2021, 14 (18), pp.5672. ⟨10.3390/en14185672⟩ A.M methane hydrate morphology crystal growth sand sediment [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry [CHIM.POLY]Chemical Sciences/Polymers [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry [CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftuniparissaclay https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185672 2023-11-04T22:32:57Z International audience Understanding the mechanisms involved in the formation and growth of methane hydrate in marine sandy sediments is crucial for investigating the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of gas hydrate marine sediments. In this study, high-resolution optical microscopy and synchrotron X-ray computed tomography were used together to observe methane hydrate growing under excess gas conditions in a coarse sandy sediment. The high spatial and complementary temporal resolutions of these techniques allow growth processes and accompanying redistribution of water or brine to be observed over spatial scales down to the micrometre—i.e., well below pore size—and temporal scales below 1 s. Gas hydrate morphological and growth features that cannot be identified by X-ray computed tomography alone, such as hollow filaments, were revealed. These filaments sprouted from hydrate crusts at water–gas interfaces as water was being transported from their interior to their tips in the gas (methane), which extend in the µm/s range. Haines jumps are visualized when the growing hydrate crust hits a water pool, such as capillary bridges between grains or liquid droplets sitting on the substrate—a capillary-driven mechanism that has some analogy with cryogenic suction in water-bearing freezing soils. These features cannot be accounted for by the hydrate pore habit models proposed about two decades ago, which, in the absence of any observation at pore scale, were indeed useful for constructing mechanical and petrophysical models of gas hydrate-bearing sediments Article in Journal/Newspaper Methane hydrate Archives ouvertes de Paris-Saclay Energies 14 18 5672 |
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A.M methane hydrate morphology crystal growth sand sediment [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry [CHIM.POLY]Chemical Sciences/Polymers [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry [CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry Le, Thi, Xiu Bornert, Michel Brown, Ross Aimedieu, Patrick Broseta, Daniel Chabot, Baptiste King, Andrew Tang, Anh, Minh Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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International audience Understanding the mechanisms involved in the formation and growth of methane hydrate in marine sandy sediments is crucial for investigating the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of gas hydrate marine sediments. In this study, high-resolution optical microscopy and synchrotron X-ray computed tomography were used together to observe methane hydrate growing under excess gas conditions in a coarse sandy sediment. The high spatial and complementary temporal resolutions of these techniques allow growth processes and accompanying redistribution of water or brine to be observed over spatial scales down to the micrometre—i.e., well below pore size—and temporal scales below 1 s. Gas hydrate morphological and growth features that cannot be identified by X-ray computed tomography alone, such as hollow filaments, were revealed. These filaments sprouted from hydrate crusts at water–gas interfaces as water was being transported from their interior to their tips in the gas (methane), which extend in the µm/s range. Haines jumps are visualized when the growing hydrate crust hits a water pool, such as capillary bridges between grains or liquid droplets sitting on the substrate—a capillary-driven mechanism that has some analogy with cryogenic suction in water-bearing freezing soils. These features cannot be accounted for by the hydrate pore habit models proposed about two decades ago, which, in the absence of any observation at pore scale, were indeed useful for constructing mechanical and petrophysical models of gas hydrate-bearing sediments |
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Laboratoire Navier (NAVIER UMR 8205) École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux (IPREM) Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR) TOTAL FINA ELF-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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Combining Optical Microscopy and X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals Novel Morphologies and Growth Processes of Methane Hydrate in Sand Pores |
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combining optical microscopy and x-ray computed tomography reveals novel morphologies and growth processes of methane hydrate in sand pores |
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