[HTML][HTML] Three-body aggregation of guest molecules as a key step in methane hydrate nucleation and growth

W Hu, C Chen, J Sun, N Zhang, J Zhao, Y Liu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Gas hydrates have an important role in environmental and astrochemistry, as well as in
energy materials research. Although it is widely accepted that gas accumulation is an …

Effect of nanobubble evolution on hydrate process: a review

Y Zhang, L Zhao, S Deng, R Zhao, X Nie… - Journal of Thermal Science, 2019 - Springer
As a huge reserve for potential energy, natural gas hydrates (NGHs) are attracting
increasingly extra attentions, and a series of researches on gas recovery from NGHs …

CO2 gas hydrate for carbon capture and storage applications–Part 2

M Aminnaji, MF Qureshi, H Dashti, A Hase… - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
CO 2 hydrate offers some substantial applications for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
While CO 2 hydrate chemistry and CO 2 capture are reviewed in part 1 of this review, CO 2 …

Molecular simulations on the stability and dynamics of bulk nanobubbles in aqueous environments

Y Lu, L Yang, Y Kuang, Y Song, J Zhao… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanobubbles have attracted significant attention due to their unexpectedly long lifetimes
and stabilities in liquid solutions. However, explanations for the unique properties of …

Gas supersaturation and diffusion joint controlled CH4 nanobubble evolution during hydrate dissociation

C Chen, W Hu, L Yang, J Zhao, Y Song - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles have attracted wide scientific attention due to their large number of potential
applications in nanotechnology, and they are ubiquitous during natural gas hydrates (NGHs) …

Molecular simulation study of methane hydrate decomposition in the presence of hydrophilic and hydrophobic solid surfaces

W Hu, C Chen, C Cheng, T Jin, X Wu, H Li… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural gas hydrates (NGHs) exist mainly in marine muddy porous media, and it is of great
significance to understand the hydrate decomposition in microporous sediments for hydrate …

Atomistic insights into the performance of thermodynamic inhibitors in the nucleation of methane hydrate

Y Lu, C Yuan, H Wang, L Yang, L Zhang, J Zhao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic inhibitors are intensively used in oil and gas pipelines to modify the
formation conditions of gas hydrate, preventing the blockage of pipelines. However, their …

Effect of methanol as an amphiphile on water structuring around a hydrate forming gas molecule: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

KS Sujith - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Gas hydrates (GH) are crystalline compounds composed of small hydrophobic molecules
encapsulated within cavities formed by hydrogen bonded water molecules. These …

Molecular insights into the synergistic inhibition mechanisms of antifreeze protein and methanol on carbon dioxide hydrate growth

Y Zhang, C Yuan, Z Chen, C Chen, X Liang… - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The formation of CO 2 hydrates during CO 2 transportation and deep-sea injection poses a
significant risk of pipeline blockage. Combining kinetic (KHIs) and thermodynamic hydrate …

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of N2/CO2 Displacement Process of Methane Hydrate

W Song, X Sun, G Zhou, W Huang, G Lu… - ChemistrySelect, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we construct three kinds of hydrate replacement models: N2, CO2 and N2‐
CO2. The molecular dynamics (MD) method is used to study the dynamic process of N2 …