Methane Hydrate as a “new energy”

• Main Authors: Cui, Liang, Azizul Moqsud, MD, Hyodo, Masayuki, Bhattacharya, Suby
• Other Authors: Letcher, Trevor
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier: Academic Press 2018
• Subjects: Methane hydrate
• Online Access: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/849362/1/__homes.surrey.ac.uk_home_.System_Desktop_ch7%20Suby%205218%20Methane%20Hydrate.docx

Methane hydrate (MH) becomes a promising new energy in some countries including China and Japan due to its huge reservation. The key mission is to find the safe and efficient exploitation method. The exploitation processes will cause stress changes, which may induce submarine landslides and failures of engineering projects. This chapter described some state-of-art exploitation methods reproduced in laboratory and in numerical modelling to understand the responses of soils during exploitation process. These studies could provide valuable guidance for real life projects.