By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times
According to scientists of the Institute of Gas under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, use of alternative energy should be combined with the introduction of the energy saving technologies that do not envisage the replacement of natural gas by biofuel. Today the Institute conducts research in the field of the applied theory of combustion, thermodynamics, interphase heat and mass exchange whereby it projects new thermotechnological processes and designs novel equipment.
The greater part of Institute’s engineering developments is designed for use in industrial production and the metal industry in particular. Given that the energy intensity is one of the vulnerable spots of Ukraine’s metallurgy, scientists of the Institute are developing the technologies of recirculation of gas.
A switchover to alternative fuel is connected with the problem of technical re-equipment. That is why natural-gas production in Ukraine, from scientists’ point of view, will remain a strategic priority for a long, long time.
Specialists of the Institute of Gas are studying the possibility for production, storage and transportation of the hydrates of methane, which are sea crystal compounds formed by the chemical combination of water and gas. In prospect the hydrates of methane could become an alternative to liquefied natural gas. Currently, the scientists are simulating the techniques of production of the hydrates of methane through their displacement by carbon dioxide.
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