Flocculation and sedimentation of cane sugar juice particles with cationic homo‐ and copolymers

Rapid flocculation and sedimentation of suspended particles in primary cane sugar juice is achieved using a high molecular weight anionic polymer flocculant. This work reports on efforts to enhance the performance of an anionic flocculant by the addition of cationic polymers. Homopolymers of poly(trimethylammonium ethyl methacrylate chloride) (TMAEMAC) and cationic copolymers of poly(trimethylammonium ethyl acrylate chloride) (TMAEAC) and acrylamide were synthesized and their performance, to enhance the flocculation and sedimentation of cane sugar juice particles, was evaluated by turbidity and settling rate measurements. The charge–patch mechanism best explains the performance of the homopolymers, whereas the action of the copolymers is attributed to the bridging mechanism. The results of this work indicate that the copolymers are more effective than the homopolymers to aid flocculation and sedimentation of the cane sugar juice particles, and that the best‐performing polymers are those that act by the bridging mechanism. Addition of increased amounts of anionic flocculant did not confer an improvement, suggesting that the cationic bridging flocculant targets a different population of particles that is largely responsible for the residual turbidity. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 90: 316–325, 2003     

CO2水合物在管道中的生成及堵塞特性

为明确CO₂水合物在管道中的流动及堵塞特性,通过高压可视水合物环路研究了不同持液量下的水合物生成及堵塞特性,研究结果表明：水合物生成诱导时间随着持液量的增大出现非线性变化,呈V形,先减小后增大;管道持液量越大,水合物生成量越少,水合物发生堵塞时的临界体积分数降低,如在持液率86.6%下,堵塞时水合物体积分数为4.32%,持液率为66.7%时,堵塞时水合物体积分数为7.45%。通过可视管路发现当CO₂水合物大量生成后,管道中压降将突然增大,颗粒之间快速聚集生长,流速迅速降低,CO₂水合物快速充满管道使管道发生堵塞,水合物颗粒不断生长及在聚集层处的聚集导致流动阻力的增加是其产生堵塞的根本原因。研究结果可为CO₂水合物浆液流动保障提供技术支撑。     

水合物法分离回收石油化工厂火炬气工艺研究

介绍了4种火炬气回收工艺和水合物法气体分离技术,提出了水合物法分离回收石油化工厂火炬气的新工艺——利用水合物的生成逐一分离、回收其中有价值的组分。对流程的特点和技术可行性进行了分析,指出对于组分复杂的火炬气可采用水合物法分离回收。与传统工艺相比,该工艺具有回收彻底、更节能、更环保等诸多优点。     

气体水合物生成过程强化方法研究现状

气体水合物因其特殊的物理化学特性,已被气体分离、二氧化碳捕集与封存、海水淡化、气体储运等诸多领域学者广泛研究。但气体水合物生成条件较为苛刻、生成速率及储气能力较商业化应用还有较大差距。本工作从气体水合物生成条件、生成速率、储气能力等角度,分别综述了机械强化、外场作用、添加剂等强化方法对气体水合物生成过程的强化原理、技术特征及其研究现状;综合比较分析了各种强化方法的优势及存在的问题;展望了各强化方法的未来发展方向及其适用领域;特别是针对气体水合物法海水淡化的技术特征和关键问题,提出以外电场强化气体水合物法海水淡化过程的新思路。     

水合物法分离技术研究

从水合物的结构和性能出发，对基于水合物形成和分解的分离过程进行了分析和研究，探讨了基于水合物的分离技术，包括气体分离和水溶液分离或提浓两个方面。综述了近年来水合物法分离的研究现状、相关技术内容和应用领域     

Evaluation on the natural gas hydrate formation process

Gas hydrates have endowed with great potential in gas storage, and rapid formation of gas hydrates is critical to use this novel technology. This work evaluated the natural gas hydrate formation process, which was compared from six parameters, including conversion of water to hydrate, storage capacity, the rate of hydrate formation, space velocity (SV) of hydrate reaction, energy consumption and hydrate removal. The literature was selected by analyzing and comparing these six parameters mentioned above, meanwhile placing emphasis on the three parameters of storage capacity, the rate of hydrate formation and space velocity of hydrate reaction. Through analysis and comparison, four conclusions could be obtained as follows. Firstly, the overall performance of the stirring process and the spraying process were better than other processes after analyzing the six parameters. Secondly, the additive types, the reactor structure and the reactor size had influence on the natural gas hydrate formation process. Thirdly, the energy consumption via reciprocating impact in the hydrate formation process was higher than that via stirring, spraying and static higee. Finally, it was one key for hydrate removal to realize the hydrate industrial production.     

Gas hydrate concentration measurements on sucrose solutions using a new pilot test rig

A new 750 cm³ pilot test rig based on the “isochoric pressure method” was designed and commissioned for the hydrate measurements to concentrate sucrose solutions. The reactor included an improved agitation system and enabled sampling of the sucrose solutions. The experimental method was validated be performing dissociation measurements for the CO₂ + water system. Gas hydrate kinetic and sampling data were measured for the CO₂ + sucrose solutions at sucrose concentrations between (12–60) ^oBrix, within the temperature range of (274.65–276.15) K and at pressures up to 3.70 MPa. Results showed that sucrose is a kinetic inhibitor. The data were modeled to obtain hydrate formation rate, storage capacity, gas consumption and apparent rate constant. Stage-wise concentration measurements were performed with reactor conditions at 274.65 K, 3.70 MPa and 130 rpm mixer speed with liquid sample withdrawal. A final sucrose product of approximately 60 ^oBrix was obtained.     

添加剂对水合物法回收烟气中二氧化碳影响的研究进展

阐述了目前基于添加剂环境下水合物法分离烟气中CO2的研究进展,主要对烟气水合物热力学、动力学、分离效果3个方面的研究状况进行了总结。重点对当前应用于烟气体系研究较多的几类添加剂——四正丁基溴化铵(TBAB)、四氢呋喃(THF)、环戊烷(CP)的性质、原理、优势及不足进行了介绍和对比,对一级水合物法处理烟气的研究现状进行了分析和评价,并预测了有效提高水合物法分离效果的可行方法。     

Quantitative analysis of CO2 hydrate formation in porous media by proton NMR

Gas hydrate is a nonstoichiometric crystal compound formed from water and gas. Most nonvisual studies on gas hydrate are unable to detect how much water is converted to hydrates, and thus, the hydrate stoichiometry calculations are inaccurate. This study investigated the CO₂ hydrate formation process in porous media directly and quantitatively. The characteristics of the time-variable consumption of hydrate formation indicated a two-stage formation, hydrate enclathration and continuous occupancy. The enclathration stage occurred in the first 20 min of the formation when considerable heat is released. The continuous occupancy stage lasted longer than the hydrate enclathration because the empty cages in previously formed hydrates would also be occupied. The higher formation pressures can accelerate water consumption and increase cage occupancy. The compositions of completely formed CO₂ hydrates at 2.7, 3.0, and 3.3 MPa and 275.15 K were determined as CO₂·6.90H₂O, CO₂·6.70H₂O, and CO₂·6.49H₂O, respectively.     

二氧化碳置换法模拟开采天然气水合物的研究进展

目前实验室模拟开采天然气水合物(NGH)的最主要的方法为外激法,通过注热、降压等方式使水合物分解释放出甲烷(CH₄),外激法最大的问题在于水合物的分解容易造成地层结构变化,导致地质斜坡灾害。利用二氧化碳(CO₂)在水合物相中置换开采CH₄,由于置换过程发生在水合物相中,不改变水合物相结构,因此可以降低地质灾害风险。本文全面介绍了利用CO₂在水合物相从NGH中置换CH₄的研究进展,从置换可行性、动力学模型、模拟研究、实验研究等方面对当前的研究进行了综述,并为进一步发展置换法开采CH₄技术指出了方向。     

水基钻井液中天然气水合物形成的研究进展

依据水基钻井液中天然气水合物生成的相关研究,结合理论与实践,介绍了一些钻井液处理剂对水合物生成的影响,重点概述了水基钻井液对天然气水合物生成的抑制效应,并简要说明了水合物抑制剂在钻井液中应用的相关研究。     

Prediction of carbon dioxide gas hydrate formation conditions in aqueous electrolyte solutions

A methodology for predicting the incipient equilibrium conditions for carbon dioxide gas hydrates in the presence of electrolytes such as NaCl, KCl and CaCl₂ is presented. The method utilizes the statistical thermodynamics model of van der Waals and Platteeuw (1959) to describe the solid hydrate phase. Three different models were examined for the representation of the liquid phase: Chen and Evans (1986), Zuo and Guo (1991), and Aasberg-Petersen et al. (1991). It was found that the model of Zuo and Guo (1991) gave the best results for predicting incipient CO₂ gas hydrate conditions in aqueous single salt solutions. The model was then extended for prediction of CO₂ gas hydrates in mixed salts solutions. The predictions agree very well with experimental data.     

Kinetic investigation of CO2 and N2 clathrate hydrate formation using cyclopentane: Application in desalination

Hydrate-based desalination could be a promising technique for producing fresh water from saline water, as it is an eco-friendly process and suitable for large-scale implementation. To make the hydrate-based desalination technology easily scalable, we looked at using air (or N₂) or CO₂ as a hydrate former, along with cyclopentane (CP). Hydrate former CP helps to reduce the operating conditions, as CP forms hydrate at ambient pressure. However, hydrate formation kinetics due to water-insoluble CP is slow. In this work, the kinetics of hydrate formation in saline water were investigated and compared to identify the utility of CO₂ and N₂ as hydrate formers for desalination work. The addition of CP as a hydrate former should transform the structure of CO₂ hydrate from structure I (sI) to structure II (sII), as CP occupies the large cages (5¹²6⁴) in the gas hydrate. A set of three similar reactors were used for this study to collect data quickly. Furthermore, the triple reactor setup is a unique reactor design mounted on a shaker, and a set of SS-316 balls present inside the horizontal reactor imparts the mixing. Experiments with the CO₂-CP mixture and N₂-CP mixture have been studied in the presence or absence of 3 wt.% NaCl at 274 K and 3 MPa pressure. The gas uptake kinetics, water recovery, and separation efficiency have been investigated.     

凹凸棒石体系下CO2水合物生成动力学实验

油气生产、储运及CO₂管道输送的过程中易生成CO₂水合物,添加抑制剂是预防CO₂水合物生成的有效手段。为解决CO₂水合物堵塞问题,本文采用超声波处理后的凹凸棒石作为抑制剂,利用可视化高压反应釜实验装置,在初始条件3 MPa和2℃下,研究了添加浓度为0、0.05mg/mL、0.30mg/mL、0.50mg/mL、0.75mg/mL、1.00mg/mL和1.50 mg/mL的凹凸棒石对CO₂水合物生成动力学的影响。用压力变化法测定了水合物生成诱导时间,用动力学模型计算了水合物生成量,并分析了凹凸棒石影响CO₂水合物生成的微观机理。实验结果表明凹凸棒石能延长CO₂水合物生成诱导时间,浓度为0.75mg/mL时作用效果最佳,较纯水体系CO₂水合物生成诱导时间延长了200%;凹凸棒石能减少CO₂水合物的生成量,浓度为1.5mg/mL时作用效果最佳,与纯水体系相比减少了12.8%。凹凸棒石抑制水合物生成的微观机理主要是由于其独特的选择吸附性以及对传质传热的阻碍。研究表明以凹凸棒石作为CO₂水合物抑制剂效果良好,能有效延长其诱导时间,兼具经济性和环境友好的特点。     

Effect of additives on formation of natural gas hydrate

The formation of natural gas hydrate (NGH) is studied in this work. Kinetics data of hydrate formation with no agitation were collected at various concentrations of the aqueous solutions with different additives such as alkylpolyglucside, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate and potassium oxalate monohydrate. Various kinds of additive increased the formation rates of NGH and its storage capacity and reduced the induction time of NGH formation. Moreover, the storage capacity, the induction time and the hydrate formation rate were influenced by the concentration of the aqueous solution.     

Impact of water film thickness on kinetic rate of mixed hydrate formation during injection of CO2 into CH4 hydrate

In this work, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and phase field theory (PFT) has been applied to study the kinetics of phase transitions associated with CO₂ injection into systems containing CH₄ hydrate, free CH₄ gas, and varying amounts of liquid water. The CH₄ hydrate was converted into either pure CO₂ or mixed CO₂?CH₄ hydrate to investigate the impact of two primary mechanisms governing the relevant phase transitions: solid‐state mass transport through hydrate and heat transfer away from the newly formed CO₂ hydrate. Experimentally proven dependence of kinetic conversion rate on the amount of available free pore water was investigated and successfully reproduced in our model systems. It was found that rate of conversion was directly proportional to the amount of liquid water initially surrounding the hydrate. When all of the liquid has been converted into either CO₂ or mixed CO₂?CH₄ hydrate, a much slower solid‐state mass transport becomes the dominant mechanism. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 3944–3957, 2015     

鼓泡塔中水合物法分离混合气体的数值模拟

To develop a new technique for separating gas mixtures via hydrate formation,a set of medium-sized experimental bubble column reactor equipment was constructed.On the basis of the structure parameters of the ex- perimental bubble column reactor,assuming that the liquid phase was in the axial dispersion regime and the gas phase was in the plug flow regime,in the presence of hydrate promoter tetrahydrofuran（THF）,the rate of hydrogen enrichment for CH4＋H2 gas mixtures at different operational conditions（such as temperature,pressure,concentra- tion of gas components,gas flow rate,liquid flow rate）were simulated.The heat product of the hydrate reaction and its axial distribution under different operational conditions were also calculated.The results would be helpful not only to setting and optimizing operation conditions and design of multi-refrigeration equipment,but also to hydrate separation technique industrialization.     

多孔介质中水合物生成与分解二维实验研究

采用电容、压力、温度测试作为监测手段,自行研制了一套天然气水合物二维开采模拟系统,可用于水合物生成与分解过程中温度场、压力场、分布状态、分解前沿推进速度等动态特性的研究。水合物生成与分解实验表明,温度是影响水合物大量生成的主要因素;重复实验会加长生成时间,往往首次实验所耗总时间最短,说明水的记忆效应并不是对于所有实验系统存在的普遍现象;实验表现出来的特殊的压力变化曲线和规律还表明晶核形成对水合物晶体的生成并非绝对重要。理论分析和实验表明,电容法在测试单相水体相变过程中是有效的,水量是影响电容量变化的关键。在水合物生成过程中,随水合物饱和度的增加、水量的不断减少,电容量总体减小趋势明显。电容测试方法在水合物实验方面有一定的可行性,尤其对于研究多孔介质中水合物生成分解过程中各相的流动特性极有意义,但是要实现在水合物研究方面的有效利用还需要大量的切实的实验验证。     

机械扰动强化气体水合物快速生成研究进展

气体水合物技术在天然气固态储运、CO₂捕获与封存等领域具有广阔的应用前景。高效快速制备水合物是水合物应用技术产业化的关键技术之一。从成核机理、相平衡、传热和传质等角度简述了气体水合物快速生成机理,回顾了常见的搅拌、喷淋和鼓泡等机械扰动强化气体水合物快速生成方法的基本原理和特性。依据强化传质传热领域内的新进展,进一步阐述了新型机械扰动强化气体水合物快速生成方法的基本原理和特性,重点综述了流化床、超声波、超重力、撞击流等技术的研究进展。从耗气率、水合物生成速率、总能耗、气体转化率等角度分析评价了各种机械扰动强化气体水合物快速生成方法的优缺点。总体来说,目前各种机械扰动强化气体水合物生成技术仍处于实验室阶段,传统的搅拌、喷淋和鼓泡强化技术生成速率较低;新型的流化床、超声波、超重力和撞击流等技术也存在各种不同的缺点,有待进一步优化改进。同时指出探究微观成核机理、开发新型易固液分离的气体水合物生成系统以及构建水合物反应器评价体系等是未来气体水合物快速生成相关研究中需要进一步解决的问题。     

多孔介质中水合物生成与分解的电阻率性质

A new one-dimensional system for resistivity measurement for natural gas hydrate (NGH) exploitation is designed, which is used to study the formation and decomposition processes of NGH.The experimental results verify the feasibility of the measurement method, especially in monitoring the nucleation and growth of the NGH.Isovolumetric formation experiment of NGH is performed at 2 ℃ and 7.8 MPa.Before the NGH formation, the ini-tial resistivity is measured to be 4-7 Ω·m, which declines to the minimum value of 2-3 Ω·m when NGH begins to nucleate after the pressure is reduced to 3.3 MPa.As the NGH grows, the resistivity increases to a great extent, and finally it keeps at 11-13 Ω·m, indicating the completion of the formation process.The NGH decomposition ex-periment is then performed.When the outlet pressure decreases, NGH begins to decompose, accordingly, the resis-tivity declines gradually, and is at 5-9 Ω·m when the decomposition process ends, which is slightly higher than the resistivity value before the formation of NGH.The occurrence and distribution uniformity of NGH are determined by the distribution and magnitude of the resistivity measured on an one-dimensional sand-packed model.This study tackles the accurate estimation for the distribution of NGH in porous medium, and provides an experimental basis for further study on NGH exploitation in the future.