Compressibility of gas hydrates.

Experimental data on the pressure dependence of unit cell parameters for the gas hydrates of ethane (cubic structure I, pressure range 0-2 GPa), xenon (cubic structure I, pressure range 0-1.5 GPa) and the double hydrate of tetrahydrofuran+xenon (cubic structure II, pressure range 0-3 GPa) are presented. Approximation of the data using the cubic Birch-Murnaghan equation, P=1.

Phase diagram and high-pressure boundary of hydrate formation in the carbon dioxide-water system.

Experimental investigation of the phase diagram of the system carbon dioxide-water at pressures up to 2.7 GPa has been carried out in order to explain earlier controversial results on the decomposition curves of the hydrates formed in this system. According to X-ray diffraction data, solid and/or liquid phases of water and CO2 coexist in the system at room temperature within the pressure range from 0.

Phase diagram and high-pressure boundary of hydrate formation in the ethane-water system.

Dissociation temperatures of gas hydrate formed in the ethane-water system were studied at pressures up to 1500 MPa. In situ neutron diffraction analysis and X-ray diffraction analysis in a diamond anvil cell showed that the gas hydrate formed in the ethane-water system at 340, 700, and 1840 MPa and room temperature belongs to the cubic structure I (CS-I). Raman spectra of C-C vibrations of ethane molecules in the hydrate phase, as well as the spectra of solid and liquid ethane under high-pressure conditions were studied at pressures up to 6900 MPa.

Gas hydrates of argon and methane synthesized at high pressures: composition, thermal expansion, and self-preservation.

For the first time, the compositions of argon and methane high-pressure gas hydrates have been directly determined. The studied samples of the gas hydrates were prepared under high-pressure conditions and quenched at 77 K. The composition of the argon hydrate (structure H, stable at 460-770 MPa) was found to be Ar.