Methane hydrates (CH4·nH2O) mainly composed of methane and water are ice-like crystalline clathrate compounds. They form a large natural gas reservoir due to their abundance. Solid-state NMR and laser Raman spectroscopy are two techniques which can be used for microscopic analysis for methane hydrates. In this paper, a low temperature solid-state 13C NMR technology was used to study the structures of synthesized methane hydrates. It was shown that 1H high power decoupling (1H HPDEC) had a better performance than 13C cross polarization (13C CP) for quantitative analysis for methane hydrates. The NMR results indicated that the methane hydrates synthesized by mixing methane gas with ice powder had a type-I structure, with large and small cage occupancies of 0.988 and 0.824, respectively, and a hydrate number of 6.07. Methane hydrates synthesized by mixing the methane gas with the continental slope of the South China Sea site SH2 sediments and ice powder also had a type-I structure, with large and small cage occupancies of 0.987 and 0.887, respectively, and a hydrate number of 5.98. The result showed that addition of site SH2 sediments could reduce hydrate number of methane hydrates, and make small cage occupancy and hydrate saturation higher, which were verified by laser Raman spectroscopy.
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