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Gas hydrates are crystalline compounds made of gas and water molecules. Methane hydrates are found in marine sediments and permafrost regions; extensive amounts of methane are trapped in the form of hydrates. The unique behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments requires the development of special research tools, including new numerical algorithms (tube- and pore-network models) and experimental devices (high pressure chambers and micromodels). Hydraulic conductivity decreases with increasing variance in pore size distribution; while spatial correlation in pore size reduces this trend, both variability and spatial correlation promote flow focusing. Invading gas forms a percolating path while nucleating gas forms isolated gas bubbles; as a result, relative gas conductivity is lower for gas nucleation than for gas invasion processes, and constitutive models must be properly adapted for reservoir simulations. Physical properties such as gas solubility, salinity, pore size, and mixed gas conditions affect hydrate formation and dissociation; implications include oscillatory transient hydrate formation, dissolution within the hydrate stability field, initial hydrate lens formation, and phase boundary changes in real field situations. High initial hydrate saturation and high depressurization favor gas recovery efficiency during gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments. Even a small fraction of fines in otherwise clean sand sediments can cause fines migration and concentration, vuggy structure formation, and gas-driven fracture formation during gas production by depressurization.

The marine gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) is sensitive to climatically driven temperature changes at the seafloor. This thesis reviews past studies of the GHSZ response to climate change, and presents the results of a numerical analysis of a marine gas hydrate stability model forced by an intermediate complexity climate model. Potential future climate scenarios are simulated. resulting in realistic predictions of seafloor temperature change over variable bathymetry. The average continental margin seafloor temperature increase is greater than the global seafloor average. and it is determined that even for CO2 concentrations held below present-day levels. the global GHSZ will decrease significantly. The experiments carried out here indicate that after 40 kyr the GHSZ volume will shrink by between 1% and 29%. based on various CO2 scenarios and parameterizations of thermal diffusivity and geothermal gradient. Regions which exhibit 100% GHSZ loss range from 1% to 9% of the prescribed continental margin. Results of this study suggest that the effects of future GHSZ loss may be felt by the exogenic carbon cycle within centuries and last for tens of thousands of years.

Gas hydrate consists of guest gas molecules encaged in water molecules. Methane is the most common guest molecule in natural hydrates. Methane hydrate forms under high fluid pressure and low temperature and is found in marine sediments or in permafrost region. Methane hydrate can be an energy resource (world reserves are estimated in 20,000 trillion m3 of CH4), contribute to global warming, or cause seafloor instability. Research documented in this thesis starts with an investigation of hydrate formation and growth in the pores, and the assessment of formation rate, tensile/adhesive strength and their impact on sediment-scale properties, including volume change during hydrate formation and dissociation. Then, emphasis is placed on identifying the advantages and limitations of different gas production strategies with emphasis on a detailed study of CH4-CO2 exchange as a unique alternative to recover CH4 gas while sequestering CO2. The research methodology combines experimental studies, particle-scale numerical simulations, and macro-scale analyses of coupled processes.

It is well known that gases are present in marine sediments. The gas found in the surficial layer of marine sediments is mostly due to biological origin or migration from deposits in deeper layers. A nonlinear acoustic remote sensing technique based on the nonlinear acoustic scattering theory of gas bubbles is introduced in this thesis to identify the gas bubbles in surficial layers of marine sediments and measure their concentrations. Two close transmitting frequencies were used to generate a nonlinear scattering effect from the gas bubbles in the sediments, and the nonlinear responses were generated only by gas bubbles instead of by other scatters in the sediments. An acoustic inversion was implemented on the nonlinear response, together with calibration results and scattering volume, to determine gas bubble concentrations. Results from the data collected at Gulf of Gdansk demonstrate that the nonlinear acoustic method is advantageous over other acoustic remote sensing methods in gas bubble identification and measurement, and provides more valuable information for seabed classification.

Abstract A pulp suspension consists of water, fibres, fines, fillers and chemicals, but air or other gases are also present in practically all pulping processes either in dissolved form or as bubbles. Dissolved gases seldom disturb the processes, but they are readily converted to gaseous form when conditions change. The gas bubbles affect the properties of the pulp suspension, reduce the accuracy of certain measurements, interfere with the runability of the papermachine and detract from the quality of the end-product. Gases are removed from the process by either mechanical or chemical means, resulting in increased investments and operational costs. The aim of this work was to study the behaviour of gas in pulp and papermaking processes with laboratory, pilot-scale and mill-scale experiments. Five main areas of the research can be identified: 1. Occurrence of gases in pulp and paper mill processes, 2. Dissolution, precipitation and hold-up of gases in the pulp suspension and mill water, 3. Effects of gases on certain consistency measurements, centrifugal pumping and operation of the hydrocyclone. 4. Measurement of the gas content of the pulp suspension by compression, radiometric, microwave and sonar methods and 5. Removal of gases with a centrifugal pump equipped with vacuum pump or hydrocyclone equipped light reject removal. The results show that the dissolution and precipitation of gas is strongly dependent on the pulp and water properties. Dissolved and colloidal material reduces the solubility potential of gas, but also accelerates the precipitation of dissolved gases in gaseous form. The hold-up of precipitated gas bubbles was found to be much more pronounced in hydrophobic mechanical pulps than in lignin-free chemical pulps. The accuracy of consistency measurements was affected by free gas in the pulp suspension, requiring special attention when assessing the results. The operation of pressure screens and hydrocyclones was affected only at high volumes of free gas in the feed suspension. According to the experiments, a reliable gas content measurement can be achieved by in-line radiometric, microwave or sonar methods, and also by the off-line compression method if a representative sample is obtained. A centrifugal pump equipped with a gas removing unit is designed mainly to ensure undisturbed pumping, whereas its gas removal efficiency remains quite low, especially with small bubbles and at a low gas content. The gas removal efficiency of a hydrocyclone equipped with light reject removal is good, but decreases with small precipitated bubbles. These results offer new information of the behaviour of the gas in pulp suspensions and white water and underline the importance of the bubble generation mechanism in this context.

Abstract Gas removal from the papermaking process is currently a standard practice, whereas purification of the internal water circulation has become common only recently. Both unit processes have progressed greatly during recent decades and new concepts are constantly being developed. The aim of this thesis was to analyse the efficiency and applicability of a channel flow design introduced by Metso for passive white water deaeration and to study the dynamics of passive bubbly gas removal. In addition, separation of the detrimental process water components by selective flotation during deaeration was studied to add further functionality to the channel flow design. Turbulent mixing at the flow discharge and the consequent air entrainment were seen to limit the gas separation efficiency. Also, the properties of different white waters notably affect their deaeration through viscous forces, the concentration of surface active components and bubble-particle interactions. Thus similar levels of gas separation cannot be achieved with all process waters. The analysis showed that the drag of small microbubbles is mostly caused by hydrophobic contamination and the dispersed particles that readily attach to the bubbles. Correlations were derived based on experimental data to provide new information on the drag force experienced by small bubbles in white waters. Chemically unaided flotation of white water in the channel flow was shown to be efficient in separating hydrophobic contaminants that have adverse effects on paper machine production and product quality. Both good reductions in contaminant content and high selectivity in their removal were achieved. Channel flow with an overflow can be considered well suited for the first stage of froth separation, while further treatment of the channel flow reject may consist of a secondary flotation or other process that enables the recirculation of fines and fillers. Although a certain level of losses of fines and fillers must be expected, substantial fraction of these solid components can be returned to the process stream. The proposed multifunctional process, channel flow deaeration and frothing of white water, was seen to be straightforward, economical and feasible while also providing benefits in terms of total process efficiency that are not delivered by any current process scheme. The experimental parameters presented here regarding bubble dynamics and flotation efficiency can be used to achieve better models of these processes.

The development of fluid mechanics during the twentieth century has been affected by intense research in order to fathom numerous practically relevant hydrodynamic effects, to understand the physical processes and correlations and to describe them mathematically. This became necessary because employing only the fundamental hydrodynamic equations, the description of certain phenomena in fluid flows caused by fluid properties was impossible. In order to assess the quality of fluids regarding their gas contents and their nuclei distributions, various measuring methods and devices have been developed and constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century. This historical development could be described nearly completely in this work, particularly the development of devices to determine the total gas content. Apart from the mostly difficult handling of these measurement methods and devices, only the influence of single parameters such as the total gas content, the dissolved oxygen content, nucleus content, nucleus distribution and the distribution of nucleus sizes on hydrodynamic effects was examined. However, the correlations between these single parameters, as they occur in real flows, could not be taken into consideration. As early as the end of the ninetieth century the development of methods and devices began to determine the tensile strength of fluids. The initially static methods have been followed by the developments of dynamic methods since the beginning of the 1970s. While for specially prepared fluids, tensile strengths of several hundred bar were measured under static conditions, the typical values for water, measured with the eddy and swirl nozzle, range between zero and two bar. This illustrates the strong influence of interactions between all parameters on the tensile strength in flowing fluids. Except for sound velocity and pressure distribution at profiles, water quality particularly affects certain cavitation phenomena. Various cavitation tests around the world have shown that without determining the actual tensile strength of the test water, it is impossible to obtain reproducible results regarding cavitation inception. In experiments concerning cavitation erosion, the correlation between water quality, erosive aggressiveness and erosion rate was proven unmistakably. Evidently, permanent measurement of the test fluid?s tensile stress during cavitation experiments with model bodies is compulsory in order to be able to interpret measurement results correctly. Cavitation phenomena at profiles or other parts affected by flow cause changes of lift, drag and loss coefficients depending on the degree of the cavitation progress. The influence of transition, detachment, obstruction and pressure distribution plays a special role. The quality of electrically conductive fluids is determined by their conductivity. By means of electromagnetic fields Lorentz-forces are generated, whose effect can be observed in lessening of flow detachment, drag reduction and increased lift. Manifold experimental research results in the area of fluid mechanics have proven that the fluid quality must be taken into account when describing real flow processes. Since the many flow parameters are subject to permanent interaction, ultimately, the sum of all single parameters lead to the effects mentioned. For the determination of the water quality such as in cavitation experiments, the tensile stress of the water can be measured making the mathematical description of cavitation inception possible. / Die Entwicklung der Strömungsmechanik im 20. Jahrhundert wurde auch durch intensive Forschungen geprägt, um die zahlreichen in der Praxis auftretenden hydrodynamischen Effekte zu ergründen, die physikalischen Abläufe und Zusammenhänge zu verstehen und diese mathematisch zu beschreiben. Dies wurde notwendig, da mit den hydrodynamischen Grundgleichungen allein keine Beschreibung der aus den Fluideigenschaften resultierenden Erscheinungen in Flüssigkeitsströmungen möglich war. Um die Qualität der Flüssigkeiten bezüglich ihres Gasgehaltes und ihrer Keimverteilung beurteilen zu können, wurden mit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts unterschiedliche Messmethoden und Apparaturen entwickelt und gebaut. Diese Entwicklung ließ sich annähernd vollständig darstellen, hierbei besonders die Entwicklungen von Apparaturen zur Bestimmung des Gesamtgasgehaltes. Neben der zumeist schwierigen Handhabung dieser Messgeräte und Methoden wird dabei nur der Einfluss einzelner Messgrößen, wie Gesamtgasgehalt, Gelöstsauerstoffgehalt, Keimgehalt, Keimverteilung und Keimgrößenverteilung auf hydrodynamische Effekte untersucht. Die aber in realen Strömungen auftretenden Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Einflussgrößen werden nicht berücksichtigt. Schon am Ende des 19. Jahrhundert begann die Entwicklung von Geräten und Methoden zur Bestimmung von Zugspannungen in Flüssigkeiten. Den anfänglich statischen Methoden folgten mit Beginn der 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts die bis heute andauernden Entwicklungen dynamischer Methoden. Während für speziell behandelte Flüssigkeiten unter statischen Bedingungen Zugspannungen von einigen hundert bar gemessen wurden, liegen die typischen Werte für Wasser mit der Wirbel- oder Dralldüse gemessen, zwischen null und zwei bar. Das zeigt den starken Einfluss der Wechselwirkungen aller Einflussgrößen auf die Zugspannung in strömenden Flüssigkeiten. Außer auf die Schallgeschwindigkeit und die Druckverteilung an Profilen hat die Wasserqualität einen besonders starken Einfluss auf bestimmte Kavitationserscheinungen. Weltweite Kavitationstests zeigten, dass ohne Bestimmung der aktuellen Zugspannung des Testwassers keine reproduzierbaren Ergebnisse bezüglich des Kavitationsbeginns möglich sind. Bei Untersuchungen zur Kavitationserosion wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Wasserqualität und erosiver Aggressivität und Erosionsrate eindeutig nachgewiesen. Die permanente Messung der Zugspannung der Testflüssigkeit ist bei Kavitationsexperimenten an Modellkörpern offensichtlich zwingend notwendig, um die Messergebnisse korrekt interpretieren zu können. Kavitationserscheinungen an Profilen oder Durchströmteilen bewirken Änderungen von Auftriebs-, Widerstands- und Verlustbeiwerten in Abhängigkeit vom Fortschrittsgrad der Kavitation. Hierbei spielen die Beeinflussung der Transition, Ablösung, Versperrung und Druckverteilung eine besondere Rolle. Bei elektrisch leitfähigen Fluiden ist die Qualität durch die Leitfähigkeit bestimmt. Mittels elektromagnetischer Felder werden Lorentzkräfte erzeugt, deren Wirkung sich zeigt in der Unterdrückung von Strömungsablösung, Widerstandsverringerung und stärkerem Auftrieb. Vielfältige experimentelle Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Strömungsmechanik haben gezeigt, dass für die Beschreibung realer Strömungsvorgänge die Qualität des Fluides berücksichtigt werden muss. Da die vielen Einflussgrößen in der Strömung permanenten Wechselwirkungen unterliegen, führt letztlich die Summe aller Einzeleinflüsse auf die genannten Effekte. Für die Bestimmung der Wasserqualität z.B. bei Kavitationsexperimenten kann die Zugspannung des Testwassers gemessen werden, wodurch die genauere mathematische Beschreibung des Kavitationsbeginns möglich wird. - (Diese Arbeit liegt auch in englischer Sprache unter dem Titel "Hydro-dynamic effects with particular consideration of water quality an their measurement methods" in elektronischer Form vor - http://hsss.slub-dresden.de/hsss/servlet/hsss.urlmapping.MappingServlet?id=1141217614058-7645)

Die Entwicklung der Strömungsmechanik im 20. Jahrhundert wurde auch durch intensive Forschungen geprägt, um die zahlreichen in der Praxis auftretenden hydrodynamischen Effekte zu ergründen, die physikalischen Abläufe und Zusammenhänge zu verstehen und diese mathematisch zu beschreiben. Dies wurde notwendig, da mit den hydrodynamischen Grundgleichungen allein keine Beschreibung der aus den Fluideigenschaften resultierenden Erscheinungen in Flüssigkeitsströmungen möglich war. Um die Qualität der Flüssigkeiten bezüglich ihres Gasgehaltes und ihrer Keimverteilung beurteilen zu können, wurden mit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts unterschiedliche Messmethoden und Apparaturen entwickelt und gebaut. Diese Entwicklung ließ sich annähernd vollständig darstellen, hierbei besonders die Entwicklungen von Apparaturen zur Bestimmung des Gesamtgasgehaltes. Neben der zumeist schwierigen Handhabung dieser Messgeräte und Methoden wird dabei nur der Einfluss einzelner Messgrößen, wie Gesamtgasgehalt, Gelöstsauerstoffgehalt, Keimgehalt, Keimverteilung und Keimgrößenverteilung auf hydrodynamische Effekte untersucht. Die aber in realen Strömungen auftretenden Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Einflussgrößen werden nicht berücksichtigt. Schon am Ende des 19. Jahrhundert begann die Entwicklung von Geräten und Methoden zur Bestimmung von Zugspannungen in Flüssigkeiten. Den anfänglich statischen Methoden folgten mit Beginn der 70-er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts die bis heute andauernden Entwicklungen dynamischer Methoden. Während für speziell behandelte Flüssigkeiten unter statischen Bedingungen Zugspannungen von einigen hundert bar gemessen wurden, liegen die typischen Werte für Wasser mit der Wirbel- oder Dralldüse gemessen, zwischen null und zwei bar. Das zeigt den starken Einfluss der Wechselwirkungen aller Einflussgrößen auf die Zugspannung in strömenden Flüssigkeiten. Außer auf die Schallgeschwindigkeit und die Druckverteilung an Profilen hat die Wasserqualität einen besonders starken Einfluss auf bestimmte Kavitationserscheinungen. Weltweite Kavitationstests zeigten, dass ohne Bestimmung der aktuellen Zugspannung des Testwassers keine reproduzierbaren Ergebnisse bezüglich des Kavitationsbeginns möglich sind. Bei Untersuchungen zur Kavitationserosion wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Wasserqualität und erosiver Aggressivität und Erosionsrate eindeutig nachgewiesen. Die permanente Messung der Zugspannung der Testflüssigkeit ist bei Kavitationsexperimenten an Modellkörpern offensichtlich zwingend notwendig, um die Messergebnisse korrekt interpretieren zu können. Kavitationserscheinungen an Profilen oder Durchströmteilen bewirken Änderungen von Auftriebs-, Widerstands- und Verlustbeiwerten in Abhängigkeit vom Fortschrittsgrad der Kavitation. Hierbei spielen die Beeinflussung der Transition, Ablösung, Versperrung und Druckverteilung eine besondere Rolle. Bei elektrisch leitfähigen Fluiden ist die Qualität durch die Leitfähigkeit bestimmt. Mittels elektromagnetischer Felder werden Lorentzkräfte erzeugt, deren Wirkung sich zeigt in der Unterdrückung von Strömungsablösung, Widerstandsverringerung und stärkerem Auftrieb. Vielfältige experimentelle Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Strömungsmechanik haben gezeigt, dass für die Beschreibung realer Strömungsvorgänge die Qualität des Fluides berücksichtigt werden muss. Da die vielen Einflussgrößen in der Strömung permanenten Wechselwirkungen unterliegen, führt letztlich die Summe aller Einzeleinflüsse auf die genannten Effekte. Für die Bestimmung der Wasserqualität z.B. bei Kavitationsexperimenten kann die Zugspannung des Testwassers gemessen werden, wodurch die genauere mathematische Beschreibung des Kavitationsbeginns möglich wird. / The development of fluid mechanics during the twentieth century has been affected by intense research in order to fathom numerous practically relevant hydrodynamic effects, to understand the physical processes and correlations and to describe them mathematically. This became necessary because employing only the fundamental hydrodynamic equations, the description of certain phenomena in fluid flows caused by fluid properties was impossible. In order to assess the quality of fluids regarding their gas contents and their nuclei distributions, various measuring methods and devices have been developed and constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century. This historical development could be described nearly completely in this work, particularly the development of devices to determine the total gas content. Apart from the mostly difficult handling of these measurement methods and devices, only the influence of single parameters such as the total gas content, the dissolved oxygen content, nucleus content, nucleus distribution and the distribution of nucleus sizes on hydrodynamic effects was examined. However, the correlations between these single parameters, as they occur in real flows, could not be taken into consideration. As early as the end of the ninetieth century the development of methods and devices began to determine the tensile strength of fluids. The initially static methods have been followed by the developments of dynamic methods since the beginning of the 1970s. While for specially prepared fluids, tensile strengths of several hundred bar were measured under static conditions, the typical values for water, measured with the eddy and swirl nozzle, range between zero and two bar. This illustrates the strong influence of interactions between all parameters on the tensile strength in flowing fluids. Except for sound velocity and pressure distribution at profiles, water quality particularly affects certain cavitation phenomena. Various cavitation tests around the world have shown that without determining the actual tensile strength of the test water, it is impossible to obtain reproducible results regarding cavitation inception. In experiments concerning cavitation erosion, the correlation between water quality, erosive aggressiveness and erosion rate was proven unmistakably. Evidently, permanent measurement of the test fluid?s tensile stress during cavitation experiments with model bodies is compulsory in order to be able to interpret measurement results correctly. Cavitation phenomena at profiles or other parts affected by flow cause changes of lift, drag and loss coefficients depending on the degree of the cavitation progress. The influence of transition, detachment, obstruction and pressure distribution plays a special role. The quality of electrically conductive fluids is determined by their conductivity. By means of electromagnetic fields Lorentz-forces are generated, whose effect can be observed in lessening of flow detachment, drag reduction and increased lift. Manifold experimental research results in the area of fluid mechanics have proven that the fluid quality must be taken into account when describing real flow processes. Since the many flow parameters are subject to permanent interaction, ultimately, the sum of all single parameters lead to the effects mentioned. For the determination of the water quality such as in cavitation experiments, the tensile stress of the water can be measured making the mathematical description of cavitation inception possible. - (The German online version of this thesis for qualification as university teacher has been published under the titel "Hydrodynamische Effekte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wasserqualität und ihre Messverfahren" - http://hsss.slub-dresden.de/hsss/servlet/hsss.urlmapping.MappingServlet?id=1141215758714-7391)