Hydrates Concept for Plugging Deep-Sea Severed Pipeline for BP Gulf of Mexico Spill
Excerpt:
The disastrous event of
British Petroleum
(BP)
pipeline spill in the Gulf of Mexico on
April 20
th
2010
has
resulted in death, ongoing devastation of gulf environment, thrashing resources and
threatening
of
life and welfare of thousands of gulf residents.
Many attempts have been made to
stop this spill.
Thus
far, all attempts have
little or no effect. MIK tec
hnology
of Houston
propose
s
a new novel concept
that is worth trying. It
is based on sound
scientific
principals
and
would cost
a
small
fraction of
what has been spent
on
fabricat
ing
those
massive containment
chambers.
Ironically, it is the same concept
that caused
those containments to fail
on May 9th!
What is hydrate?
Hydrate
is a term used in
chemistry
to indicate that a substance contains
water.
G
enerally
compounds
are
formed by the union
or linkage
of
water
with some other substance.
However,
the chemical state
and molecules assembly
of water varies widely between hydrates.
Solid hydrates are
compounds
which have
water in the form of H
2
O molecules associated with
these compounds.
As an
example,
anhydrous (water free) copper sulfate,
CuSO
4
is a
gray
-
white
solid. When
this chemical is dissolved in water and
allowed to crystallize, it produces beautiful
translucent blue
hydrous solid
crystals
,
which contains water molecules as part of the crystals.
