Development of gas hydrates research using terahertz technologies

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25709091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Energy engineering
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Takeya Kei 名古屋大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (70515874)
• Research Collaborator: FUKUI Takashi ; TAKAHASHI Ryohei
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: メタンハイドレート / 自然エネルギーの利用 / テラヘルツ波分光 / 過冷却水

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I had been tried further development of a novel technique to investigate gas hydrates using terahertz technologies. Models of dielectric parameter and optical properties of ice and gas hydrates in terahertz region were established by the measurement results obtained by the terahertz time domain spectroscopy with low temperature system. Furthermore, according to the measurement on methane hydrate, an evidence of super-cooled water during the hydrate dissociation was observed. From the observation, a new model of methane hydrate dissociation was proposed.

Free Research Field

テラヘルツ波工学