Estimating Pore Space Hydrate Saturation Using Dissociation Gas Evolution Measurements: In Relevance to Laboratory Testing of Natural or Artificially Synthesised Hydrate-Bearing Soil Specimens

Table 6

Sensitivity to the choice of vapour phase EoS at Lw-V equilibrium for quantity of gas present within such elements external to the immediate boundaries of the specimen for which the material present within is forced into the gas/water collector during collection of dissociation products.

Description	Molar volume of methane (cm^3/mol)	Hydrate saturation (%)
Vapour saturated gas phase using Duan and Mao, 2006 [79]	236.03	46.24
EoS of Duan et al. [71]	235.69	46.20
CSMGem	239.33	46.61
Ideal Gas Law	273.29	49.90