Kinetics of gas hydrate nucleation and growth

PhD thesis in Petroleum engineering The thesis is based on the following articles, which are available in the file: PAPER 1: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, Effect of Ultralow Concentration of Methanol on Methane Hydrate Formation, Energy & Fuels, 24, 752-757, (2010) DOI:10.1021/ef9009422 ht...

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Main Author: Abay, Hailu Kebede
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Stavanger, Norway 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11250/183675
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Summary:PhD thesis in Petroleum engineering The thesis is based on the following articles, which are available in the file: PAPER 1: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, Effect of Ultralow Concentration of Methanol on Methane Hydrate Formation, Energy & Fuels, 24, 752-757, (2010) DOI:10.1021/ef9009422 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef9009422 PAPER 2: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, Multicomponent Gas Hydrate Nu- cleation: The Effect of the Cooling Rate and Composition, Energy & Fuels, 25, 42-51, (2011) DOI:10.1021/ef1011879 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef1011879 PAPER 3: Hailu K. Abay, Thor M. Svartaas and Ke Wei, Effect of Gas Composition on sII Hydrate Growth Kinetics, Energy & Fuels, 25, 1335-1341, (2011) DOI:10.1021/ef101698g http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef101698g PAPER 4: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, On the Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Formation: A Time-dependent Kinetic Rate Model, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 2011. http://www.icgh.org/ PAPER 5: Hailu K. Abay, Eirik Hovring and Thor M. Svartaas, Does PVCap Promote Nucleation of Structure II Hydrate? Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 2011. http://www.icgh.org/ PAPER 6: Hailu K. Abay, Jonas Hovland and Thor M. Svartaas, The Effect of PV- Cap on Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 2011. http://www.icgh.org/