Summary and Relationship to Chapters that Follow

The object of this chapter is to provide an overview of the experimental methods, the phase equilibria data, and the thermal property data available on hydrates since Hammerschmidt (1934) on hydrates in natural gas systems. The tabulations and figures illustrate that more data are needed, particularly for phase equilibria mixtures of noncombustible components, structure H components, and for thermal property data. 

Chapters 7 and 8 consider two applications of the data in this chapter and the correlation methods of Chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 7 considers the impact of hydrate on energy, climate, and geohazards in the earth, as examples of phase equilibria and thermal property data application. In Chapter 8, applications caused by hydrates in gas processing and production are described. 

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