<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kumar, Asheesh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sakpal, Tushar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roy, Sudip</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kumar, Rajnish</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Methane hydrate formation in a test sediment of sand and clay at various levels of water saturation</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canadian Journal of Chemistry</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">clay</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">formation kinetics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">methane hydrate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Silica sand</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">water saturation</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AUG</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8, 1, SI</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">65 AURIGA DR, SUITE 203, OTTAWA, ON K2E 7W6, CANADA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">93</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">874-881</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Kinetics of methane hydrate formation with different ratios of silica sand and clay and different water saturations were studied. At suitable temperature and methane gas pressure, water in the void spaces of silica sand packing and intercalated area of clay were converted into hydrate. It was observed that the rate of hydrate formation increases with higher void space in the packing, and addition of clay in test sediment decreases water to hydrate conversion as well as rate of hydrate formation. Maximum water to hydrate conversion of 60.0% was achieved in pure silica sand bed at 75% water saturation. Presence of fine clay particles is expected to reduce the void spaces and thus may hinder effective mass transfer of hydrate forming gases in the bed. However, it is also possible that the bentonite clay used in this work may actually inhibit hydrate growth. Additional experiments in stirred tank reactor were carried out to understand the inhibiting effect of bentonite clay for hydrate formation.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></issue><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Foreign&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1.003</style></custom4></record></records></xml>