Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate
The microscopic mechanisms involved in the formation/dissociation of methane hydrate confined at the nanometer scale are unraveled using advanced molecular modeling techniques combined with a mesoscale thermodynamic approach. By means of atom-scale simulations probing coexistence upon confinement an...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2011.13028 2023-05-15T17:11:42+02:00 Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate Jin, Dongliang Coasne, Benoit 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.13028 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13028 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024025118 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Chemical Physics physics.chem-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.13028 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024025118 2022-03-10T15:14:38Z The microscopic mechanisms involved in the formation/dissociation of methane hydrate confined at the nanometer scale are unraveled using advanced molecular modeling techniques combined with a mesoscale thermodynamic approach. By means of atom-scale simulations probing coexistence upon confinement and free energy calculations, phase stability of confined methane hydrate is shown to be restricted to a narrower temperature and pressure domain than its bulk counterpart. The melting point depression at a given pressure, which is consistent with available experimental data, is shown to be quantitatively described using the Gibbs--Thomson formalism if used with accurate estimates for the pore/liquid and pore/hydrate surface tensions. The metastability barrier upon hydrate formation and dissociation is found to decrease upon confinement, therefore providing a molecular scale picture for the faster kinetics observed in experiments on confined gas hydrates. By considering different formation mechanisms -- bulk homogeneous nucleation, external surface nucleation, and confined nucleation within the porosity -- we identify a crossover in the nucleation process; the critical nucleus formed in the pore corresponds either to a hemispherical cap or a bridge nucleus depending on temperature, contact angle, and pore size. Using the classical nucleation theory, for both mechanisms, the typical induction time is shown to scale with the pore surface to volume ratio and, hence, the reciprocal pore size. These findings for the critical nucleus and nucleation rate associated to such complex transitions provide a mean to rationalize and predict methane hydrate formation in any porous media from simple thermodynamic data. Article in Journal/Newspaper Methane hydrate DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The microscopic mechanisms involved in the formation/dissociation of methane hydrate confined at the nanometer scale are unraveled using advanced molecular modeling techniques combined with a mesoscale thermodynamic approach. By means of atom-scale simulations probing coexistence upon confinement and free energy calculations, phase stability of confined methane hydrate is shown to be restricted to a narrower temperature and pressure domain than its bulk counterpart. The melting point depression at a given pressure, which is consistent with available experimental data, is shown to be quantitatively described using the Gibbs--Thomson formalism if used with accurate estimates for the pore/liquid and pore/hydrate surface tensions. The metastability barrier upon hydrate formation and dissociation is found to decrease upon confinement, therefore providing a molecular scale picture for the faster kinetics observed in experiments on confined gas hydrates. By considering different formation mechanisms -- bulk homogeneous nucleation, external surface nucleation, and confined nucleation within the porosity -- we identify a crossover in the nucleation process; the critical nucleus formed in the pore corresponds either to a hemispherical cap or a bridge nucleus depending on temperature, contact angle, and pore size. Using the classical nucleation theory, for both mechanisms, the typical induction time is shown to scale with the pore surface to volume ratio and, hence, the reciprocal pore size. These findings for the critical nucleus and nucleation rate associated to such complex transitions provide a mean to rationalize and predict methane hydrate formation in any porous media from simple thermodynamic data. |
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Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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Molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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molecular origin of the reduced phase stability and faster formation/dissociation kinetics in confined methane hydrate |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.13028 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13028 |
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Methane hydrate |
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