Breakthrough discovery: CO2 could revolutionize affordable, eco-friendly gas hydrate production.
A team looked into how adding CO2 to gas can affect the formation of gas hydrate, which is like a gas trapped in ice. They did this because it can be hard to form gas hydrate due to needing high pressure and low temperature. By mixing in CO2, the pressure needed to form the gas hydrate can be lower. They found that increasing the amount of CO2 from 0% to 100% helped to improve the performance of the gas hydrate by reducing the pressure needed. This suggests that using CO2 could make it easier to create gas hydrate, which might be helpful for future applications.