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Methane Hydrate Crystallization on Sessile Water Droplets
Published on: May 26, 2021
Optical microscopy and in situ Raman scattering of single crystalline ethylene hydrate and binary methane-ethylene
Hiroyasu Shimizu1, Naoki Tada, Ryota Ikawa
1Department of Materials Science and Technology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan. shimizu@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Visual observations through a microscope and in situ Raman measurements have been made for single crystalline ethylene hydrate (EH) and binary methane-ethylene hydrate (MEH) at pressures up to 3.7 GPa and room temperature. Both hydrates showed pressure-induced phase transitions at 1.6, 2.0, and 3.0 GPa for EH and at 1.7, 2.1, and 3.3 GPa for MEH. The cubic sI phase of EH and MEH remains stable up to 1.6 and 1.7 GPa, respectively, which are more widely ranging values than the values for the methane hydrate sI phase. In this sI phase of binary MEH, the cage occupancies by methane and ethylene molecules are investigated from Raman spectra. Above P = 3.0 GPa for EH and 3.3 GPa for MEH, they decomposed by associating with the formation of the polyethylene.
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