Numerical simulation of the depression method of gas hydrates decomposition

Gas hydrates are solid crystalline compounds of gas molecules and waters stable under certain thermobaric conditions. Due to the high specific concentration, the amount of methane reserves contained in gas hydrates is considerably exceed the known reserves of a traditional natural gas. With account taking of their shallow, gas hydrates can be considered as one of the promising sources of hydrocarbon feed. In this paper, the numerical simulation of the depression method of gas hydrate decomposition is performed by using a thermohydrodynamic simulator developed in MIPT.