Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Formation in an Aqueous Solution with and without Kinetic Promoter (SDS) by Spray Reactor

Hydrate formation apparatus reported so far was mainly concentrated in stirred-tank batch environments. It was difficult to produce the high gas storage hydrate efficiently. Some nonstirred technology has been attracting more attention by researchers. This work proposed a new apparatus for hydrate f...

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Published in:Journal of Chemistry
Main Authors: Yaqin Tian, Yugui Li, Hongping An, Jie Ren, Jianfeng Su
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5208915
https://doaj.org/article/b948ed3ffa30462ebb77ba12dab050d7
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Summary:Hydrate formation apparatus reported so far was mainly concentrated in stirred-tank batch environments. It was difficult to produce the high gas storage hydrate efficiently. Some nonstirred technology has been attracting more attention by researchers. This work proposed a new apparatus for hydrate formation by spraying water into a gaseous phase with a fine nozzle. It can get sufficient contact surface area for gas-liquid reaction. Methane hydrate formation experiments have been conducted using pure water and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) aqueous solution for comparison at 277.15 K. The experiments were conducted at 7.0 and 6.0 MPa, respectively. Kinetics of methane hydrate formation have been investigated by methane consumption per mole of water and reaction rate. The mechanism of hydrate formation and kinetics property by spraying atomization were studied with the theory of crystal chemistry.