Gas Hydrates
- Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have experimentally shown that methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) can exist as gas hydrates.
- Gas hydrates are formed when a gas such as methane gets trapped in well-defined cages of water molecules forming crystalline solids. It is a solid ice-like form of water that contains methane gas molecules in its molecular cavities.
- Natural gas hydrates occur on continental margins and shelves worldwide from Polar Regions to the tropics.
- Gas hydrate reservoirs are generally associated with biologically rich cold seep ecosystems at the seafloor.
- It is estimated that total amount of carbon in the ....
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