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Gas Hydrates 2 : Geoscience Issues and Potential Industrial Applications.

Gas hydrates in their natural environment and for potential industrial applications (Volume 2).

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruffine, Livio
Otros Autores: Broseta, Daniel, Desmedt, Arnaud
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; PART 1: Field study and laboratory experiments of hydrate-bearing sediments; Introduction to Part 1; 1. Water Column Acoustics: Remote Detection of Gas Seeps; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Principle of the measurement; 1.2.1. Instrumentations; 1.2.2. Qualitative and quantitative measurements; 1.3 Bibliography; 2. Geophysical Approach; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Overview; 2.3. Seismic processing; 2.3.1. Positioning phase; 2.3.2. Preprocessing phase; 2.3.3. Processing phase.
  • 2.4. Example of gas hydrate exploration: the SYSIF instrument2.5. Bibliography; 3. Hydrate Seismic Detection; 3.1. Wave velocities of hydrate-bearing sediments; 3.1.1. Empirical equations; 3.1.2. Effective medium theories; 3.2. Bibliography; 4. Geomorphology of Gas Hydrate-Bearing Pockmark; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Generalities about pockmarks; 4.3. Impact of gas hydrate on seafloor deformation; 4.4. Morphological evolution of gas hydrate pockmarks; 4.5. Distinction between gas hydrate-bearing and gas hydratefree pockmarks; 4.6. Bibliography; 5. Geotechnics; 5.1. Introduction.
  • 5.2. The Penfeld system5.2.1. Piezocone and acoustic soundings in gas hydrate-bearing sediments; 5.3. Bibliography; 6. Geochemistry; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Sampling geological materials from hydrate-bearing sediment; 6.2.1. The Calypso corer; 6.2.2. Sampling of sediments, carbonates and pore fluids from the Calypso corer; 6.3. Analyses; 6.3.1. Sediment and carbonate; 6.3.2. Gases; 6.3.3. Pore water; 6.4. Bibliography; 7. Benthic Ecosystem Study; 7.1. Microbial ecology in hydrate-bearing sediments; 7.1.1. Study sites containing hydrate-bearing sediments.
  • 7.1.2. Sampling strategy for microbiology study of hydrate-bearing sediments7.1.3. Laboratory analyses; 7.2. Macrobial ecology studies at cold seeps; 7.2.1. Mapping biogenic habitats; 7.2.2. Chemical characterization of biogenic habitats; 7.2.3. Sampling in biogenic habitats; 7.2.4. Fauna; 7.2.5. Symbiosis studies; 7.3. Bibliography; 8. Physicochemical Properties of Gas Hydrate-bearing Sediments; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Gas hydrate formation and dissociation; 8.3. Fluid transport in gas hydrate-bearing sediments; 8.4. Thermal and electrical properties of gas hydrate-bearing sediments.
  • 8.5. Distribution and occurrence of gas hydrates in sediments8.6. Experimental investigation of dynamic processes in gas hydrate-bearing sediments; 8.7. Bibliography; 9. Small-scale Laboratory Studies of Key Geotechnical Properties which Cannot be Measured from In Situ Deployed Technologies; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Influence of gas hydrates on the stiffness and strength properties of sediments; 9.2.1. Elastic or small-strain stiffness properties; 9.2.2. Large-strain stiffness and strength properties; 9.2.3. Geotechnical consequences of gas hydrate destabilization; 9.3. Bibliography.