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Advances in the Study of Gas Hydrates
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This book had itsgenesis in a symposium on gas hydrates presented at the 2003 SpringNational Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Thesymposium consisted of twenty papers presented in four sessions overtwo days. Additional guest authors were invited to provide continuityand cover topics not addressed during the symposium. Gas hydrates area unique class of chemical compounds where molecules of one compound(the guest material) are enclosed, without bonding chemically, withinan open solid lattice composed of another compound (the hostmaterial). These types of configurations are known as clathrates. Theguest molecules, usually gases, are of an appropriate size such thatthey fit within the cage formed by the host material. Common examplesof gas hydrates are carbon dioxide/water and methane/waterclathrates. At standard pressure and temperature, methane hydratecontains by volume 180 times as much methane as hydrate.
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