Advance in Gas Hydrates: Formation, Structures, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1162
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas hydrate
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: gas hydrate; carbon capture; nucleation; gas storage; flow assurance; adhesion
Interests: oil chemistry; asphaltenes and hydrates in flow assurance
Interests: reservoir engineering; fluid flow in porous media; enhanced oil recovery; flow assurance and multiphase flow modeling; natural gas hydrates as potential energy source
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gas hydrates have been gaining increasing research interest in recent years given their nature as an exploitable energy resource, their promising applications in gas storage and separation, seawater desalination, refrigeration, and the risk they pose to oil and gas pipeline flow assurance. Despite the extensive progress made to date, however, several knowledge gaps related to gas hydrates remain to be filled, which include the scale-up of gas hydrate technology, physicochemical properties of gas hydrates (surface chemistry, nucleation micro-mechanism and characterization, structures at ultra-high pressures and under confinement), economical and green gas hydrate risk management strategies, efficient production of gas hydrate reservoirs. Therefore, authors are invited to submit manuscripts to this Molecules Special Issue, titled “Advance in Gas Hydrates: Formation, Structures, Properties and Applications”, in which all innovative aspects of gas hydrates valuable to the industry or academia are discussed, such as hydrate physicochemical properties, formation and dissociation, modeling, phase behavior, structures, promotion and inhibition, transportability, molecular simulation, exploitation, reaction system design and optimization. This Special Issue aims to advance the understanding of gas hydrates and offers new insight into gas hydrate applications.
Dr. Yu Wei
Dr. Litao Chen
Dr. Jose G. Delgado-Linares
Dr. Luis E. Zerpa
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- gas hydrate structures
- gas hydrate properties
- gas hydrate formation and dissociation
- gas hydrate applications
- gas hydrate flow assurance
- gas hydrate exploration and production
- gas hydrate modeling and molecular simulation
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.
