Natural gas hydrate resources and hydrate technologies: a review and analysis of the associated energy and global warming challenges
The new scenario involving the rapid energy supply transition from oil-based to natural gas-based undoubtedly affects the future carbon capture and storage (CCS) and offers an opportunity for the use of natural gas hydrates (NGHs). NGHs account for one-third of the mobile organic carbon on Earth, ac...
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| Published in | Energy & environmental science Vol. 14; no. 11; pp. 5611 - 5668 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
10.11.2021
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| Summary: | The new scenario involving the rapid energy supply transition from oil-based to natural gas-based undoubtedly affects the future carbon capture and storage (CCS) and offers an opportunity for the use of natural gas hydrates (NGHs). NGHs account for one-third of the mobile organic carbon on Earth, acting as a carbon storage reservoir in the carbon cycle. Hydrate-based technologies including CO
2
capture, CO
2
separation, and natural gas storage and transportation can also be used to reduce greenhouse gas (CO
2
, CH
4
) emissions and have excellent application potential. However, the implications of the energy supply transition, NGH extraction, and hydrate-based technologies for future climate change mitigation have not been deeply recognized. This paper comprehensively discusses the global energy supply and environmental challenges and transitions, and NGHs and their role in the energy supply, carbon cycle, and historical and future climate change, and summarizes the state-of-the-art developments in hydrate-based technologies and NGH exploitation methods and their potential environmental impacts, thereby providing a perspective on the roles of NGHs and their related technologies in the future energy supply and climate change mitigation. In all of these areas, we focus on identifying future CCS challenges and the technological development risk imposed by a natural gas-based global economy and NGH utilization, which should be highlighted in the next several decades.
The roles of natural gas hydrates and their related technologies in the future energy supply, carbon cycle and climate change mitigation. |
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| Bibliography: | Dr Yi-song Yu received his PhD in engineering thermophysics (2018) from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2018 to 2019, he worked at the Center of Gas Hydrate Research in Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently he performs postdoctoral research at Colorado School of Mines, USA, on flow assurance. His research areas include the thermodynamics and kinetics of gas hydrates, hydrate-based CO 2 Xianwei Zhang received his PhD in 2017 in chemical engineering at Colorado School of Mines under the supervision of Prof. Amadeu Sum. His research was in the field of hydrate-related flow assurance. During his post-doctoral research, he expanded his research interest to more hydrate-related science and engineering challenges. Xiao-Sen Li, PhD, Professor, graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University with a Doctoral Degree in 2000. From April 2000 to July 2005, he worked at the University of Alberta and University of British Columbia. From August 2005 to now, he works at the Center of Gas Hydrate Research in Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as a chief scientist and a professor. He is a director of the Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, CAS. His research interests are in thermodynamics and kinetics of gas hydrates, production and utilization of natural gas hydrates and hydrate-based application technology. He has published more than 260 academic papers, obtained 65 patents of invention and won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award. capture, utilization and storage, hydrate-based energy storage and transportation, and natural gas hydrate exploitation. Jian-Wu Liu is currently an assistant research scientist under the guidance of Prof. Xiao-Sen LI at Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. De-Tang LU in the field of fluid flow within porous media. His research interests include fluid flow and fluid-solid coupling effect in unconventional reservoirs and other porous media. Dr Yohan Lee is a postdoctoral fellow in Colorado School of Mines, USA from 2019. He received his PhD in environmental engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, in 2017. He has also worked in GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, with Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research interests are flow assurance, natural gas hydrate exploitation, and carbon capture, utilization and storage. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1754-5692 1754-5706 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1ee02093e |