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Natural Gas Hydrate as an Upcoming Resource of Energy

DIR@IMTECH: CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology

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Title Natural Gas Hydrate as an Upcoming Resource of Energy
 
Creator Arora, Amit
Cameotra, Swaranjit Singh
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description With increasing energy demand and depleting energy resources, gas hydrates may serve as a potentially
important resource for future energy requirements. Methane gas hydrates is one such source of methane gas which is trapped in crystalline ice like structure in permafrost regions and beneath the sea in outer continental margins. It is estimated that total amount of carbon in the form of methane hydrates, far exceeds the carbon content in all the fossil fuel reserves put together and hence these are supposed to be the future potential energy resource. Like several other countries, India has also started a national gas hydrate programme for focussed exploration and possible exploitation of this important natural gas resource. This review article briefly takes up the issues related to understanding of methane hydrates, their origin, occurrence, energy potential and its exploitation techniques.
 
Publisher OMICS International
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7463.1000199
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1801/
 
Identifier Arora, Amit and Cameotra, Swaranjit Singh (2015) Natural Gas Hydrate as an Upcoming Resource of Energy. Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology, 06 (01). ISSN 21577463