Investigating the Effect of Nanomaterials and Biomimetic Surfaces on Gas Hydrates for Energy Recovery, Transportation and Flow Assurance

研究纳米材料和仿生表面对气体水合物的能量回收、运输和流动保证的影响

基本信息

批准号：
298331-2013
负责人：
Servio, Phillip
金额：
$ 2.11万
依托单位：
McGill University
依托单位国家：
加拿大
项目类别：
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
加拿大
起止时间：
2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=525979
关键词：
Investigating Effect Nanomaterials Biomimetic Surfaces

项目摘要

Humanity's ever increasing need for energy and instability in countries where most of our global oil resides forces us to explore new/alternative methods to sustain our current quality of life. Gas hydrates are a possible solution to this crisis because of the enormous amount of stored energy they possess. Hydrate reserves exceed conventional carbon reserves and mostly contain natural gas, the cleanest burning of all available fossil fuels. They are also being viewed as a potential method for removing harmful carbon dioxide emissions from thermal power plants in order to abide by the Kyoto protocol. However, these ice-like materials can also act as a double-edged sword causing environmental disasters such as the BP oil spill of 2010. The proposed research program will attempt to provide necessary information for the design of safe, economical, and environmentally acceptable processes and facilities to deal with hydrate-forming systems, and for the exploitation of in-situ methane hydrate as a future energy resource. A novel approach will be undertaken in this work, exploring the effects of nanomaterials and biomimetic surfaces on gas hydrates in order to achieve our research goals. The outcome of such work has the potential to place Canada at the forefront of technology related to the recovery, storage and transportation of natural gas trapped in hydrate form as well as carbon dioxide emissions capture and storage.

在我们大多数全球石油居住的国家，人类对能量和不稳定的需求越来越迫使我们探索新的/替代方法，以维持我们当前的生活质量。由于它们拥有的大量存储能量，气体水合是解决这一危机的可能解决方案。水合储量超过常规的碳储量，大部分含有天然气，这是所有可用化石燃料的最干净的燃烧。它们也被视为一种潜在的方法，用于消除热电厂中的有害二氧化碳排放，以遵守京都协议。但是，这些类似冰的材料也可以充当双刃剑，导致环境灾难，例如2010年的BP油漏油。拟议的研究计划将尝试为设计安全，经济和环境可接受的过程提供必要的信息以及处理水合形成系统的设施，以及将原位甲烷水合物作为未来能源的开发。这项工作将采用一种新颖的方法，探索纳米材料和仿生表面对气体水合物的影响，以实现我们的研究目标。这种工作的结果有可能使加拿大处于与捕获水合物形式以及二氧化碳排放捕获和存储相关的技术相关的技术的最前沿。