天然气水合物研究进展

天然气水合物作为清洁、高效、储量巨大的新型能源,其巨大的能源潜力引起世界上很多国家的注意,纷纷投入巨额资金和人力对其进行研究.直到20世纪80年代末期我国才有学者关注和研究天然气水合物,起步相对较晚,因此研究人员做了大量文献资料调研和资料处理等初步研究工作.从20世纪90年代初首次人工合成天然气水合物开始,随着我国政府支持力度的不断增大,在本世纪初我国在东海、南海等地发现天然气水合物矿藏,同时对天然气水合物的成因、动力学机理、形成的条件等方面进行了研究.但如何开采天然气水合物,以及如何防止天然气水合物所带来的温室效应仍是亟待解决的问题.

Research Progress in Natural Gas Hydrates

The natural gas hydrate is a clean,efficient and abundant energy source.Accordingly some countries give their attention to the natural gas hydrate and actively research on it through investing an enormous sum of money and much manpower.However our country is late in this field,our researchers commenced their study in the end of 80’s,so they made vast pilot study such as investigation and data processing.With the support of our country,at the beginning of 90’s natural gas hydrates was artificially synthesized for the first time,and in this century mineral resources of the natural gas hydrate were detected in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.At the same time the researchers made great research on the mechanism of formation,dynamic mechanism and formation conditions.However,how to exploit the natural gas hydrate and how to prevent greenhouse effect caused by the natural gas hydrate are urgent problem to be settled.