Subsurface Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage in Methane Hydrate Reservoirs Combined With clean Methane Energy Recovery

Prashant Jadhawar*, Jinhai Yang, Antonin Chapoy, Bahman Tohidi

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Abstract

CO2 sequestration and storage into methane (CH4) hydrate sediments is investigated in this study to evaluate CH4 replacement by CO2 in hydrates through both macroscale and microscale experiments at varying thermodynamic conditions. The kinetics of CO2-CH4 replacement in hydrates was experimentally evaluated using the production/CO2 sequestration setup within the methane hydrate stability zone (HSZ) and within (HSZ-I)/outside the CO2 HSZ (HSZ-II). These results were further extended at the microscale using a visual glass micromodel to validate the CH4-replacement/CO2 storage kinetics in presence of a commercial Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor (KHI) to explore the feasibility of KHI for mitigation of CO2 hydrate blockage during CO2 injection. Up to 71% CH4 gas recovery was obtained in the macroscale excess gas experiments within the HSZ-II, whereas the higher water saturation condition diminished this CH4 recovery by 9.3%. Deep inside the HSZ-I, a significant CH4 production of 51.7% was obtained (at frozen conditions) with 1% of an inhibitor application in water. For the first time ever, our novel microscale micromodel evaluations clearly revealed the release of CH4 gas through the convection, slow CO2 diffusive mass transfer and the CO2-CH4 replacement, within the HSZ-I. Moreover, this process potentially benefits from the long-term permanent CO2 sequestration and storage in the form of clathrate hydrates while offsetting the cost of its injection through the clean energy methane recovery.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1567–1579
Number of pages13
JournalEnergy & Fuels
Volume35
Issue number2
Early online date31 Dec 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2021

Bibliographical note

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support (2003-2005) received from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Thanks to Mr. Jim Pantling for construction and maintenance of the experimental equipment. Prashant Jadhawar thanks the Institute of Petroleum Engineering and the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research for financial support. Useful comments from Ross Anderson and Rod Burgass are also gratefully acknowledged.

Keywords

  • CO2 Sequestration
  • Gas hydrates
  • Methane
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Clean Energy
  • carbon dioxide - methane replacement

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