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A promising potential resource for natural gas, to meet future energy needs, is the vast methane hydrate reservoirs buried under the sea. In nature, gas hydrates mostly contain methane and uncontrolled dissociation due to climate change may lead to significant environmental impact due to greenhouse effects of methane. Technological aspects of controlled production of methane from gas hydrate reservoirs using different extraction methods efficiently will require in-depth understanding of thermodynamics and molecular level mechanisms. Chemical inhibitor injection (and also in combination with other methods such as carbon dioxide injection) is a potential method for the efficient recovery of methane from gas hydrate reservoirs. Molecular simulations are cost-effective and powerful computational tools which are employed here to investigate the potential of hydrophilic silica nanoparticle, due to its environmentally benign nature, as a green additive in this extraction method and unveil the step-by-step dissociation mechanism of methane gas hydrates.
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This page is a summary of: Molecular insights into methane hydrate dissociation: Role of methane nanobubble formation, The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0220841.
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