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Surfactant process for promoting gas hydrate formation and application of the same

Patent ·
OSTI ID:874444
 [1];  [2]
  1. Starkville, MS
  2. Brandon, MS
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This invention relates to a method of storing gas using gas hydrates comprising forming gas hydrates in the presence of a water-surfactant solution that comprises water and surfactant. The addition of minor amounts of surfactant increases the gas hydrate formation rate, increases packing density of the solid hydrate mass and simplifies the formation-storage-decomposition process of gas hydrates. The minor amounts of surfactant also enhance the potential of gas hydrates for industrial storage applications.
Research Organization:
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
DOE Contract Number:
AC26-97FT33203
Assignee:
Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MI)
Patent Number(s):
US 6389820
OSTI ID:
874444
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (13)

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Organization of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate at the Graphite−Solution Interface journal January 1996
Removal of Cadmium, Lead, and Zinc from Soil by a Rhamnolipid Biosurfactant journal September 1995
The emulsan polymer: Perspectives on a microbial capsule as an industrial product journal January 1987
Fate of Ice Nucleation-Active Pseudomonas syringae Strains in Alpine Soils and Waters and in Synthetic Snow Samples journal January 1990
Natural Gas Hydrates Storage Project report June 1999
Effect of Surfactants on Hydrate Formation Kinetics conference April 2013
Kinetics of ethane hydrate formation journal January 1985
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Analysis of a Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Micelle in Aqueous Solution: Decreased Fluidity of the Micelle Hydrocarbon Interior journal February 1995
A kinetic study of methane hydrate formation journal January 1983
Natural Gas Hydrates Storage Project Phase II. Conceptual Design and Economic Study report September 1999
Effect of Anionic Biosurfactant on Hexadecane Partitioning in Multiphase Systems journal November 1994
Micellar Solubilization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Concentrations As Evaluated by Semiequilibrium Dialysis journal October 1995

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