Clathrate hydrates of natural gases show promise for energy in regions traditionally poor of fossil fuels, suggest the possibility of mitigating the atmospheric impact of hydrocarbon consumption via CO ₂ sequestration, could advance high-tech applications to address global challenges, including the water-energy nexus, and can lead to significant economic loss and potential safety hazards when they form in oil and gas pipelines. This focused review is motivated by several recent contributions, which demonstrate how atomistic and coarse-grained simulations have become a useful tool. The examples provided suggest the time is right to take advantage of the enhanced understanding provided by simulations, to couple them with experiments that could help design new chemicals for managing hydrate formation in pipelines, for designing chemical processes and additives to advance high-tech applications such as water desalination and natural gas storage, and perhaps also for the production of methane from geological hydrate deposits with simultaneous carbon dioxide sequestration.

天然气的包合物水合物在传统上缺乏矿物燃料的地区显示出了能源前景，表明有可能通过CO ₂减轻碳氢化合物消耗对大气的影响固碳，可以促进高科技应用来应对包括水能关系在内的全球挑战，并且当它们在石油和天然气管道中形成时，可能导致重大的经济损失和潜在的安全隐患。这项有重点的综述受到近期几篇论文的激励，这些论文证明了原子模拟和粗粒度模拟已成为有用的工具。所提供的示例表明，是时候利用模拟提供的增强的理解，将其与可以帮助设计用于管理管道中水合物形成的新化学品的实验相结合，用于设计化学过程和添加剂以促进诸如此类的高科技应用作为海水淡化和天然气存储，