NATURAL GAS HYDRATE TRANSPORTING METHOD AND CONTAINER THEREOF

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To regasify natural gas without losing energy by generating a natural gas hydrate by cooling water stored within a transportation container and blowing natural gas into the transportation container and regasifying natural gas by heating the transportation container after the transportation container is transported to a place of consumption. SOLUTION: Temperature and pressure are set so that the inside of a transportation container 1 may be within a natural gas hydrate range of a hydrate/gas boundary. Natural gas is jetted into the water from a natural gas blowing pipe 2, one molecule of methane to be a main component of natural gas is confined in a cage making a water molecule and natural gas hydrate is generated. This natural gas hydrate is transported together with the transportation container 1. As a result, the necessity of transshipping the natural gas hydrate is eliminated, the necessity of working of the natural gas hydrate into a slurry state or a powder state is eliminated and the natural gas hydrate is not exposed in the atmosphere. Even if natural gas is slightly regasified due to a rise in temperature, natural gas is not discharged in the atmosphere and energy loss can be prevented because natural gas is sealed and stored within the transportation container 1.