A new experimental set-up for the study of the formation and dissociation of methane hydrate in sediments

Olivier Bonnefoy (1, 2, 3) , Jean-Michel Herri (1, 2, 3) , Jean-Pierre Monfort (4) , Pierre Henry (5) , Philippe Bernada (6) , Roy Ohmura (7)

1 SPIN-ENSMSE - Centre Sciences des Processus Industriels et Naturels
2 GENERIC-ENSMSE - Département Géochimie, environnement, écoulement, réacteurs industriels et cristallisation
3 LPMG-EMSE - Laboratoire des Procédés en Milieux Granulaires
4 LGC - Laboratoire de Génie Chimique
5 Département de Géologie
6 LGE - Laboratoire de Génie Electrique
7 Department of Mechanical Engineering

In this paper, we give a short presentation of the project ForDiMHyS which consists of experimental studies and model establishment (or development) of the kinetics of FORmation and Dissociation of Methane Hydrates in Sediments. We focus on the details of the experimental set-up which is newly, specially designed for this study in the preliminary step of the project. The four French academic teams and two PhD thesis are involved in the ForDiMHyS project on the period 2000-2004. The financial support is given by the five French Partners. The project consists of two-step programs; firstly the data acquisition from the laboratory experimental set-up and secondly simulation of methane production from methane hydrate fields.

Domaines: Génie des procédés

Olivier Bonnefoy, Jean-Michel Herri, Jean-Pierre Monfort, Pierre Henry, Philippe Bernada, et al.. A new experimental set-up for the study of the formation and dissociation of methane hydrate in sediments. EAGE 63rd Conference and Exhibition, Jun 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨hal-00846009⟩