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Gas Hydrates

Immense Energy Potential and Environmental Challenges

  • Includes diagrams, photos and coloured sketches
  • Contains chapters that are independent from each other so they can be read and understood separately
  • Written in a clear and accessible style

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. The Evolution of Energy Sources

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 1-11
  3. The Clathrate Hydrates of Gases

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 13-21
  4. The Structure and Formation of Gas Hydrates

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 23-47
  5. Methods to Predict Hydrate Formation Conditions and Formation Rate

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 49-57
  6. Physical Properties of Hydrates

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 59-74
  7. Hydrates in Nature

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 75-96
  8. Hydrates Seen as a Problem for the Oil and Gas Industry

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 97-116
  9. Hydrates as an Energy Source

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 117-140
  10. Industrial Applications

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 141-157
  11. Environmental Issues with Gas Hydrates

    • Carlo Giavarini, Keith Hester
    Pages 159-172
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 173-175

About this book

Gas hydrates are both a huge energy resource and an environmental challenge. They have a significant impact on society because of their applications to the future of energy, protection of the environment and fuel transportation.

Gas Hydrates opens up this fascinating, multidisciplinary field to non-specialists. It provides a scientific study of gas hydrates that considers their potential as an energy source while assessing the possible risk to the environment. The authors also examine the feasibility of using these natural compounds for storing and transporting gases such as methane and carbon dioxide.

Diagrams and photos are used throughout Gas Hydrates to help readers understand the scientific and technical content. Each section has been designed so it can be read independently by academics and professionals in the oil and gas industry, as well as by all those with an interest in how hydrates combine to be an energy resource, an industrial challange anda geological hazard.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Dept. Ingegneria Chimica, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

    Carlo Giavarini

  • Tulsa, USA

    Keith Hester

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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