Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications. Volume 3: Natural Gas Hydrates

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy. The volumes introduce transportation and storage challenges as well as hydrates formation, extraction, and prevention. Volume 3: Natural Gas Hydrates introduces different fundamental aspects of natural gas hydrates with related environmental challenges and economic assessment. The book describes in detail hydrate structures, physio-chemical properties and thermodynamics as well as hydrate growth theories and its dissociation methods. It also covers natural gas hydrates formation in pipelines, as one of the important challenges, accompanied with prevention techniques and discusses natural gas hydrates discovery and extraction from permafrost and oceans.