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Abstract
A two-step hydrate formation mechanism is proposed for gas hydrate formation: (1) a quasi-chemical reaction process to form basic
hydrate and (2) an adsorption process of smaller gas molecules in the linked cavities of basic hydrate. Based on the new concepts introduced
in a previous article and the two kinds of equilibrium: the quasi-chemical reaction equilibrium of step 1 and the physical adsorption
equilibrium of step 2, a simpler hydrate model has been developed. Extensive test results indicate that the new model is adequate for
predicting the hydrate formation conditions for pure gases and gas mixtures. # 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Gas hydrate; Formation mechanism; Modelling; Natural gas mixtures
1. Introduction
Most of the existing thermodynamic models for predicting hydrate formation are various modications of the vdWP model proposed by van der Waals and Platteeuw [1]. The
authors have recently proposed an alternate statistical
mechanics based hydrate model [2], and thereby introduced
some new concepts. The objective of this work is to develop
a simpler hydrate model based on those concepts and a new
hydrate formation mechanism.
The vdW-P model was developed based on the assumption of the similarity between hydrate formation and Langmuir adsorption. Although the adsorption mechanism is
capable of interpreting the nonstoichiometric property of
hydrates, however, there are a number of differences
between the two processes. A somewhat more realistic
hydrate formation mechanism is proposed in this work,
and a corresponding hydrate model is derived.
2. The proposed hydrate formation mechanism
A two-step hydrate formation mechanism is proposed.
First step: The formation of a stoichiometric basic
hydrate through a quasi-chemical reaction. The concept
of basic hydrate has been discussed in detail in a
previous article [2].
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(2)
(10)
w Aw PVw RT ln aw
(11)
0B
(12)
w A PV RT ln aw
f 0 f 0 Tf 0 Pf 0 aw
B 0B 1 RT ln1
(3)
where represents the fraction of the linked cavities occupied by the gas molecules, 0B is the chemical potential of
unlled basic hydrate ( 0), and 1 denotes the number of
linked cavities (small cavities) per water molecule in the
basic hydrate. Based on the Langmuir adsorption theory, is
calculated as follows:
Cf
1 Cf
(4)
(5)
"
0B w 2 0g T
f 0 exp
2 RT
(6)
#
(7)
(8)
(9)
(13)
In Eq. (13)
P
f P exp
T
0
2
f 0 aw a1=
w
(14)
(15)
147
Table 1
Antoine constants for calculating f 0 (T) in Eqs. (16) and (17)
Gas
Structure I
0
A 10
Ar
Kr
N2
O2
CO2
H2S
CH4
C2H4
C2H6
C3H6
C3H8
n-C4H10
i-C4H10
a
Structure II
10
58.705a
38.719a
97.939a
62.498a
9.6372
4434.2
1584.4
48.418
47.500
0.9496
100.00a
1.00
1.00
5393.68a
5682.08a
5286.59a
5353.95a
6444.50
7540.62
6591.43
5597.59
5465.60
3732.47
5400a
0.00
0.00
28.81a
34.70a
31.65a
25.93a
36.67
31.88
27.04
51.80
57.93
113.6
55.50a
0.00
0.00
A0 1023
B0
C0
7.3677
3.1982
6.8165
4.3195
3.4474a
3.2794a
5.2602a
0.0377a
0.0399a
2.3854
4.1023
3.5907a
4.5138
12889
12893
12770
12505
12570a
13523a
12955a
13841a
11491a
13968
13106
12312a
12850
2.61
4.11
1.10
0.35
6.79a
6.70a
4.08a
0.55a
30.4a
8.78
30.2
39.0a
37.0
Table 2
Antoine constants for calculating the Langmuir constants in Eq. (18)
Gas
X 106
Ar
Kr
N2
O2
CO2
H2 S
CH4
5.6026
4.5684
4.3151
9.4987
1.6464
4.0596
2.3048
2657.94
3016.70
2472.37
2452.29
2799.66
3156.52
2752.29
3.42
6.24
0.64
1.03
15.90
27.12
23.01
correlation:
Y
C X exp
T Z
P
X
j fj Cj
P
j
1 j fj Cj
j
X
(18)
xi 1:0
(20)
(21)
where fi denotes the fugacity of gas component i calculated using the PatelTeja equation of state [5]; j denotes
the fraction of linked cavities occupied by gas component j;
xi denotes the mole fraction of basic hydrate i, and fi0 for
each component is evaluated by Eq. (13).
Compared to the conventional vdW-P type hydrate
model, the calculation of the chemical potential difference
between water and empty hydrate lattice (w) is not
directly involved, and the confusion in selecting a suitable
basic parameter set for evaluating w is therefore,
avoided.
If the interactions between the guest molecules in the
linked cavities and in the basic cavities are taken into
account, Eq. (16) for evaluating fi0 (T) should be corrected
as follows:
P
j Aij j
B0
0
0
A exp
fi T exp
(22)
T
T C0
where Aij are the binary interaction parameters specifying
the guestguest interaction between components i and j
Aij Aji and Aii Ajj 0. The Aij values determined for
typical binary pairs by regression of the corresponding
hydrate formation data are given in Table 3
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Table 3
Recommended values for the cross-parameter Aaij (structure II)
Component
C2H6
C3H8
i-C4H10
n-C4H10
CH4
N2
CO2
H2 S
154
50
165
450
292
155
352
790
530
297
560
1500
100
67
100
879
When the C4-content is given in total, set Aij 0 for C4-pairs, and take
the C4 as i-C4 in the Langmuir constant calculation.
binary systems, all Aijs were set equal to zero. While for
other systems the cross-parameters Aij were incorporated in
the calculations.
5.2. Natural gas hydrates
5. Calculation results
6. Discussions
149
Table 4
Average deviations of the predicted hydrate formation pressure for 14 binary and ternary gas mixturesa
Gas mixture
T-range (K)
P-range (bar)
Structure
Np
AADP (%)b
Ar N2
N2 C 3 H 8
CH4 Ar
CH4 CO2
CH4 H2S
CH4 C2H6
CH4 C3H8
CH4 i -C4H10
CH4 n-C4H10
C2H4 C2H6
C2H6 C3H8
C3H8 CO2
CH4 C2H6 C3H8
CH4 H2S C3H8
275290
274287
273299
277286
277292
273289
274304
274293
273301
273.9
273281
273285
276300
276301
144613
2.5180
311137
2870
2067
7.3136
2.6689
1.6100
3.4684
5.89.2
4.420
3.042
12544
3.843
II
II
I
I
I
I II
II
II
II
I
I II
I II
I II
II
7
28
28
17
15
32
28
67
36
10
58
33
18
13
5.5
4.4
3.5
6.6
11.6
2.2
4.5
3.6
3.3
5.9
3.3
4.6
4.5
5.9
a
b
Table 5
Comparison of the hydrate formation temperature predictions for natural gases with those data reported by Barkan and Sheinin [6]
Gas mixture
T-range (K)
C1 C2 C3 n-C4 C5
C1 C2 C3 i-C4 n-C4 N2
C1 C2 C3 CO2 N2
C1 C2 C3 C4 CO2 N2
C1 C2 C3 C4 CO2 H2S
C1 C2 C3 i-C4
C1 C2 C3 n-C4 n-C5 CO2 N2
a
PNp
j
Np
277297
279298
278297
274282
285297
294303
279293
12
9
15
6
7
7
5
AADT (%)a
Data source
This work
0.30
0.09
0.11
0.13
0.19
0.23
0.07
0.48
0.45
0.31
0.32
0.58
0.50
0.11
[8]
[8]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
Table 6
Predicted results on the hydrate formation conditions for 21 natural gases
Gas No.
T-range (K)
P-range (bar)
Np
AADP (%)
AADT (%)
Data source
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
277297
279298
278297
274294
273286
273283
273282
275289
273292
273291
274282
273280
273291
274286
285296
293303
277295
279292
281291
275282
273282
12.1265.5
12.5273.2
16.0275.0
6.2 85.4
6.028.6
7.222.1
7.521.0
9.452.5
7.693.9
7.577.3
7.521.3
7.918.1
8.883.8
10.745.9
14.755.2
135.5628.5
14.7196.7
18.6136.5
17.658.3
17.252.4
7.5-21.0
12
9
16
9
9
8
6
4
8
6
5
4
23
6
4
7
7
5
5
4
4
7.85
5.92
2.87
4.9
7.3
4.5
4.4
9.1
8.1
5.7
2.7
1.6
3.9
2.9
11.1
10.5
5.4
4.7
10.6
4.0
8.7
0.30
0.09
0.11
0.13
0.19
0.12
0.12
0.23
0.17
0.14
0.07
0.04
0.10
0.08
0.19
0.11
0.11
0.09
0.25
0.12
0.29
[8]
[8]
[8]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[9]
[11]
[12]
[12]
[10]
[13]
[14]
[15]
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Greek letters
"
1
2
Subscripts
B
g
i
j
w
basic hydrate
gas species
species i
species j
water
151
Superscript
0
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