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Keyword: «non-isothermal multiphase filtration in a porous medium»

Mathematical modeling methods assess the possibility of natural gas storage by converting them to a hydrate state when gas is injected into permafrost aquifers. The model of multiphase nonisothermal filtration takes into account the main physical features of this process, including gas compressibility, the Joule-Thomson effect, adiabatic expansion, joint movement of water and gas, mass transfer between gas, water and a hydrate. To conduct computational experiments, the results of laboratory experiments of the equilibrium conditions of the natural gas hydrates formation in a free volume and in a porous medium saturated with water and aqueous solutions of sodium bicarbonate were used. The influence of phase equilibrium conditions on the main indicator of the process efficiency – the hydrate saturation of the created storage is studied.