• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.369-372
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• 2006

가스하이드레이트는 최근 고유가 시대에 기존화석에너지를 대처할 수 있는 가능성이 높은 에너지원이다. 이와 같은 이유로 정부는 2005년부터 본격적으로 가스하이드레이트 개발사업단을 발족시켜 국내의 부존형태와 매장량 평가를 위해 노력하고 있다. 2005년 2차원 정밀 물리탐사, 심해 퇴적물 채취 및 다각적 분석연구사업이 수행되었고, 2006년도에는 3차원 물리탐사, 심해 퇴적물 채취, 개발기술을 위한 연구 및 지질재해 안정성 연구등이 수행될 예정으로 있다. 사업단은 정부의 가스하이드레이트 개발 기본계획을 토대로 3단계 10개년 계획을 수행함으로써 미래 에너지원의 확보 및 자원 강국으로 가는 초석을 마련하려하고 있다. 향후 가스하이드레이트에 대한 관심사는 상업적 개발 가능성이다. 또한 대체 에너지들의 공통적 문제점인 막대한 비용 소요와 장기적 시간을 요한다는 점에서 여전히 문제점을 지니고 있다. 하지만 급속도로 발전하는 과학기술이 보조를 맞추어 준다면, 꿈의 에너지원인 가스하이드레이트가 모든 산업체와 가정에서 인류의 편안함을 지켜줄 시기가 도래할 것으로 기대해 본다.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.5-10
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• 2018

In this study, the effect of physico-chemical factors (e.g., pressure, electrolyte, and organic matter) in the gas hydrate deposit on CH4-CO2 replacement process was investigated experimentally. The higher initial pressure during gas injection led the higher reaction rate at the first time, but finally it did not. Electrolytes and organic matter have some effects on reforming process after dissociation of gas hydrate. It is expected that further research using real marine sediments with actual gas hydrate will enable the development of technologies applicable to the characteristics of domestic seabed geology. Ultimately, it is expected that it will be possible to recover and utilize methane as an organic resource through application of domestic gas hydrate deposit in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2007

Recent seismic surveys have shown that the presence of methane hydrate (MH) in sediments has significant influence on seismic attenuation. I have used vertical seismic profile (VSP) data from a Nankai Trough exploratory well, offshore Tokai in central Japan, to estimate compressional attenuation in MH-bearing sediments at seismic frequencies of 30-110 Hz. The use of two different measurement methods (spectral ratio and centroid frequency shift methods) provides an opportunity to validate the attenuation measurements. The sensitivity of attenuation analyses to different depth intervals, borehole irregularities, and different frequency ranges was also examined to validate the stability of attenuation estimation. I found no significant compressional attenuation in MH-bearing sediments at seismic frequencies. Macroscopically, the peaks of highest attenuation in the seismic frequency range correspond to low-saturation gas zones. In contrast, high compressional attenuation zones in the sonic frequency range (10-20 kHz) are associated with the presence of methane hydrates at the same well locations. Thus, this study demonstrated the frequency-dependence of attenuation in MH-bearing sediments; MH-bearing sediments cause attenuation in the sonic frequency range rather than the seismic frequency range As a possible reason why seismic frequencies in the 30-110 Hz range were not affected in MH-bearing sediments, I point out the effect of thin layering of MH-bearing zones.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.151-151
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• 2011

Large amounts of natural gas, mainly methane, in the form of hydrates are stored on continental margins. When gas hydrates are dissociated by any environmental trigger, generation of excess pore pressure due to released free gas may cause sediment deformation and weakening. Hence, damage on offshore structures or submarine landslide can occur by gas hydrate dissociation. Therefore, geotechnical stability of gas hydrate bearing sediments is in need to be securely assessed. However, geotechnical characteristics of gas hydrates bearing sediments including small-strain elastic moduli have been poorly identified. Synthesizing gas hydrate in natural seabed sediment specimen, which is mainly composed of silty-to-clayey soils, has been hardly attempted due to their low permeability. Moreover, it has been known that hydrate loci in pore spaces and heterogeneity of hydrate growth in specimen scale play a critical role in determining physical properties of hydrate bearing sediments. In the presented study, we synthesized gas hydrate containing sediments in an instrumented oedometric cell. Geotechnical and geophysical properties of gas hydrate bearing sediments including compressibility, small-strain elastic moduli, elastic wave, and electrical resistivity are determined by wave-based techniques during loading and unloading processes. Significant changes in volume change, elastic wave, and electrical resistivity have been observed during formation and dissociation of gas hydrate. Experimental results and analyses reveal that geotechnical properties of gas hydrates bearing sediments are highly governed by hydrate saturation, effective stress, void ratio, and soil types as well as morphological feature of hydrate formation in sediments.