降低“固封”对甲烷水合物生成的影响

随着天然气的大量使用,其储存、运输及调峰越来越重要。天然气水合物在常压状态下具有高储存比,适合应用于天然气的储存、运输及调峰过程中。因此,对天然气水合物的生成研究具有重要意义。本文研究了如何大量生成水合物并保证水合物具有较高储气率的方法。在含聚乙烯吡络烷酮[PVP(K90)]的溶液中,改变PVP(K90)的质量分数、搅拌器的转速与搅拌器的类型,研究甲烷水合物生成量与水合物储气率的变化。结果表明,添加一定低质量分数的PVP(K90)和增加搅拌速度,均可以延迟水合物层的"固封"作用,增加水合物的生成量。在PVP(K90)质量分数高于2%时,生成水合物的密封性降低,水合物"固封"作用被破坏,但是水合物储气率较低。采用不同形式的搅拌杆,在旋转过程中形成空心圆柱,破坏水合物层的"固封"作用,搅拌杆附近的甲烷与水合物晶核被输送到溶液底部,增加了水合物的生成量,而且水合物的储气率较高。在水合物生成过程中,存在水合物微粒多次聚结的现象,使甲烷的消耗量迅速增加。     

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON GAS HYDRATE FORMATION IN PRESENCE OF ADDITIVE COMPONENTS

Additives were used to increase gas hydrate formation rate and storage capacity. Experimental tests of methane hydrate formation were carried out in surfactant water solutions in a high-pressure cell. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and alkyl polysaccharide glycoside (APG) were used to increase hydrate formation. The effect of SDS on hydrate formation is more pronounced compared APG. Cyclopentane (CP) also improves hydrate formation rates while it cannot increase methane gas storage capacity.     

表面活性剂吸附对促进甲烷水合物生成效果的影响

基于表面活性剂固-液界面吸附理论,在无搅拌条件下研究了十二烷基硫酸钠（SDS（、脂肪醇聚乙烯醚硫酸钠（AES（、脂肪醇聚乙烯醚（AEO（3种表面活性剂在不锈钢反应釜中对甲烷水合物生成的促进效果。结果表明：水合物的生成形态与表面活性剂吸附金属表面形态有良好的对应关系;SDS与AES在金属表面的吸附作用可使水合物成核速率提高,成核位置增多。由于AEO不能在金属壁面发生吸附,导致对水合物生成促进效果降低,在浓度为300 mg·L^-1的SDS、AES和AEO溶液中,水合物储气密度及平均储气速率分别为131.4、128.3、12.3（体积比（和5.8、7.6、0.07 mmol·min^-1;逐步提高SDS溶液浓度（80~1200 mg·L^-1（和AES溶液浓度（60~1350 mg·L^-1（,水合物储气密度首先增大然后减小,储气速率线性增大。因此,合理选择表面活性剂种类及浓度,可显著促进水合物生成。     

Methane Hydrate Formation and Dissociation in the presence of Bentonite Clay Suspension

The present work reports the effect of bentonite clay on methane hydrate formation and dissociation in synthetic seawater of salinity 3.55 % of total dissolved salts. Extensive observations of pressure‐temperature equilibrium during formation and decomposition of methane hydrate under different conditions have been made. It is observed that phase equilibrium conditions of hydrate are affected on changing the concentration of bentonite clay in synthetic seawater. Induction time for hydrate nucleation has been measured under different concentrations of clay and subcooling conditions. The presence of bentonite clay in synthetic seawater reduces the induction time of hydrate formation. Enthalpy of hydrate dissociation is calculated by Clausius‐Clapeyron equation using measured phase equilibrium data. The amount of gas consumed during hydrate formation has been calculated using real gas equation. It is found that a larger amount of gas is consumed upon addition of bentonite clay in synthetic seawater.     

Kinetic Modeling of Methane Hydrate Formation in the Presence of Low‐Dosage Water‐Soluble Ionic Liquids

The kinetic and thermodynamic effects of three typical low‐dosage imidazolium‐based ionic liquids (ILs) on methane hydrate formation and dissociation were investigated, considering the anion nature and subcooling and/or overpressure driving forces. Isochoric hydrate formation and dissociation data were obtained by the modified slow step‐heating method. ILs proved to have a dual effect on both formation and dissociation of methane hydrate including thermodynamic and kinetic inhibition. Kinetic modeling of methane hydrate inhibition by low‐dosage ILs was performed. Kinetic analysis showed that IL inhibitors mainly cause a delay in the nucleation or hydrate growth step. The related inhibition mechanism was resolved regarding the ionic nature and electrostatic interactions of ILs with water molecules. Two binomial exponential kinetic relations were derived and used for simple methane hydrate formation in the presence of ILs as kinetic hydrate inhibitors. The proposed relations can serve for a quick estimation of the nature, extent, strength, and effectiveness of ILs on various gas hydrates.     

A型分子筛对甲烷水合物生成的影响

The porous medium has an important effect on hydrate formation. In this paper, the formation process and the gas storage capacity of the methane hydrate were investigated with A-type zeolite and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) existing in the system. The results show that A-type zeolite can influence methane hydrate formation. At the temperature of 273.5 K and pressure of 8.3 MPa, the distilled water with A-type zeolite can form methane hydrate with gaseous methane in 12 hours. The formation process of the system with A-type zeolite was quite steady and the amount of A-type zeolite can influence the gas storage capacity significantly. The adding of A-type zeolite with 0.067 g•(g water)－1 into 2×10－3 g•g－1 SDS-water solution can increase the gas storage capacity, and the maxi-mum increase rate was 31%. Simultaneously the promotion effect on hydrate formation of 3A-type zeolite is much more obvious than that of 5A-type zeolite when the water adding amounts are 0.033 g•g－1 and 0.067 g•g－1 at the experimental conditions.     

Cationic starches as gas hydrate kinetic inhibitors

This work investigated the kinetic inhibiting effect of a number of cationic starches in hydrate formation experiments with methane and methane/ethane and methane/propane gas mixtures. The starches were found to exhibit a very weak inhibiting effect except for tapioca starch which increased the induction time (delay of onset of crystallization) by an order of magnitude. The addition of polyethylene oxide (PEO) was found to further enhance the performance of tapioca starch as well as some of the other starches. Finally, the presence of tapioca starch and PEO was found to suppress the memory effect. The results were interpreted based on a mechanism proposed by Zeng et al. [2006a. Effect of antifreeze protein on nucleation, growth and memory of gas hydrates. A.I.Ch.E. Journal 52(9), 3304-3309; 2006b. Effect of antifreeze proteins on the nucleation, growth and the memory during tetrahydrofuran clathrate hydrate formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128, 2844-2850] whereby the starches interfere with nucleation through interactions with heterogeneous nucleation sites.     

水合物法分离低浓度煤层气中的甲烷

向模拟煤层气(13.11vol% CH4+86.89vol% N2)中添加5.8mol%四氢呋喃(THF)?0.03mol%十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)促进剂溶液分离提纯煤层气,考察了压力、温度、反应时间对气体消耗量、反应速率、分解气中甲烷浓度、甲烷回收率和甲烷分离因子的影响,采用色谱分析法分别测定了CH4在剩余气相和分解气相中的浓度。结果表明,压力增加,CH4回收率增大,CH4分离因子增大,CH4分离效果越好;温度是影响甲烷分离因子的关键因素,温度降低,氮气和甲烷竞争进入水合物晶体中,导致水合物相中甲烷浓度降低;温度升高有利于提高水合物对甲烷的选择性。甲烷回收效率最高可达98.65%,分离因子最大为14.83。随反应时间增加,分解气中CH4浓度升高。     

Accelerated methane storage in clathrate hydrates using surfactantstabilized suspension with graphite nanoparticles

In this study, enhanced kinetics of methane hydrate formation in the sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) solution with different concentrations of suspended graphite nanoparticles(GNPs) were investigated at 6.1–9.0 MPa and 274.15 K. The GNPs with rough surfaces and excellent thermal conductivity not only provided a considerable number of microsites for hydrate nucleation but also facilitated the fast hydrate heat transfer in the suspension system. At a relatively low pressure of 6.1 MPa, the suspension with 0.4 wt% of GNPs exhibited the minimum induction time of 22 min and maximum methane uptake of 126.1 cm~3·cm~(-3). However, the methane storage performances of the suspensions with higher and lower concentrations of GNPs were not satisfactory. At the applied pressure, the temperature increase arising from the hydrate heat in the suspension system with the optimized concentration(0.4 wt%) of GNPs was more significant than that in the traditional SDS solution. Furthermore,compared with those of the system without GNPs, enhanced hydration rate and storage capacity were achieved in the suspensions with GNPs, and the storage capacities were increased by 3.9%–17.0%. The promotion effect of GNPs on gas hydrate formation at low pressure is much more obvious than that at high pressure.     

泡沫铜强化甲烷水合物生成动力学实验研究

提高水合物生成速率和储气密度对天然气水合物技术应用非常重要。将三种孔密度的泡沫铜（CF）分别浸入十二烷基硫酸钠（SDS）溶液中构建水合储气强化体系,在高压静态反应釜中研究泡沫金属对甲烷水合物生成动力学特性。实验结果表明,泡沫铜骨架能为水合物生成提供充足的结晶点,同时可作为水合物生长过程水合热迁移的“高速公路”。甲烷水合物在SDS/CF体系中可快速生成,最大水合储气速率分布在19.24~21.04 mmol·mol^-1·min^-1之间,其中添加15 PPI泡沫铜的SDS溶液储气量最高（139 mmol·mol^-1）,且达到最大储气量90%所用时间最短（10.1 min）。在6.0~8.0 MPa压力下,相比SDS溶液,添加15 PPI泡沫铜的SDS溶液储气量提高了8.8%~35.6%,储气速率提高了4.7%~40.4%;特别在压力为5.0 MPa时,该孔密度SDS/CF体系储气量甚至比SDS溶液增加13倍,储气速率增加16倍。     

Effect of surface curvature and wettability on nucleation of methane hydrate

Natural gas hydrate nucleation is a complex physical and chemical process that is not well understood presently. In this article, an improved thermodynamic model is proposed to analyze the effects of surface curvature and wettability on methane hydrate nucleation for the first time. The results indicate that methane hydrate nucleation is more difficult on hydrophilic curvature surfaces under the same conditions, with a larger critical nucleation radius and required energy barrier than on hydrophobic surfaces. Furthermore, a convex surface is more favorable for forming methane hydrate under the same conditions than a concave surface. The model's results are critical in elucidating the microscopic mechanism of methane hydrate nucleation and providing a theoretical foundation for developing technologies for strengthening and inhibiting hydrate formation.     

Studies of hydrate nucleation with high pressure differential scanning calorimetry

Current models for hydrate formation in subsea pipelines require an arbitrary assignment of a subcooling criterion for nucleation. In reality hydrate nucleation times depend on both the degree of subcooling and the amount of time the fluid has been subcooled. In this work, differential scanning calorimetry was applied to study hydrate nucleation for gas phase hydrate formers. Temperature ramping and isothermal approaches were combined to explore the probability of hydrate nucleation for both methane and xenon. A system-dependent subcooling of around 30 K was necessary for hydrate nucleation from both guest molecules. In both systems, hydrate nucleation occurred over a narrow temperature range (2-3 K). The system pressure had a large effect on the hydrate nucleation temperature but the ice nucleation temperature was not affected over the range of pressures investigated (3-20 MPa). Cooling rates in the range of (0.5-3 K/min) did not have any statistically significant effect on the nucleation temperature for each pressure investigated. In the isothermal experiments, the time required for nucleation decreased with increased subcooling.     

天然气水合物优化合成实验研究

水合物储运技术实用化的进程中,如何提高水合物制备效率,实现高密度的储存是最为关键的问题。文中对此应用新型雾化系统对气水合物的强化合成技术进行了实验研究。结果表明:压力提高对水合物生长加速作用明显;活性剂组分和雾化方式提供了最优的气液传质条件,极大地加快了溶解、成核及生长过程,其整体反应速度提高了1倍以上,最终含气体积比也显著提高;分解水重复生成、水合物晶种的投入也能极大加快成核过程,缩短诱导期,从而提高反应速率。     

丁二酸二异辛酯磺酸钠对甲烷水合物生长动力学特性的影响

通过改变添加量（600mg/L、900mg/L、1200mg/L）、过冷度（3.5℃、5.5℃、7.5℃）以及压力（4.90MPa、6.0MPa、7.31MPa）的方式,考察了在静态体系下绿色促进剂丁二酸二异辛酯磺酸钠（AOT）对甲烷水合物生长动力学特性的影响。实验结果表明,3种浓度下AOT均能够有效缩短诱导时间,并且浓度越大,诱导时间越小（1200mg/L时为0.21h）,但储气量随着添加量的增加,先增大后减小,最终确定最佳添加量为900mg/L,水合物储气量为55.76m³/m³;另外,过冷度越大,实验压力越高,水合物成核速度越快,诱导时间越短,耗气速率越高。当过冷度为7.5℃时,诱导时间最小为0.31h,耗气速率最大为0.275mol/h,储气量最大为63.95m³/m³;但压力过大,釜内气液界面会快速生成水合物层,阻碍水合物继续生成,导致水合物储气量减少为46.84m³/m³。所以,在静态体系下,合理选择促进剂的浓度和驱动力的大小,可显著促进水合物生成。     

降温模式对甲烷水合物形成的影响

在定容条件下,以两种不同的降温模式(缓慢降温和快速降温)进行甲烷水合物在沉积物中的形成实验. 结果表明,甲烷水合物在沉积物中的形成过程包括气液溶解、核化、生长、稳定4个阶段. 在相同的初始条件下,降温模式对水合物生成的热力平衡影响较小,但对水合物生成动力学有显著改变. 快速降温下水合物生长速度明显快于缓慢降温,随着水合物初始条件不同,缓慢降温比快速降温水合物形成时间约增加21.4%~28.8%.     

Induction time,storage capacity,and rate of methane hydrate formation in the presence of SDS and silver nanoparticles

In this communication, the kinetic parameters of methane hydrate formation (induction time, quantity and rate of gas uptake, storage capacity (SC), and apparent rate constant) in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), synthetized silver nanoparticles (SNPs), and mixture of SDS?+?SNPs have been studied. Experimental measurements were performed at temperature of 273.65?K and initial pressure of 7?MPa in a 460?cm³ stirred batch reactor. Our results show that adding SDS, SNPs and their mixture increases the quantity of gas uptake, water to hydrate conversion, and SC of methane hydrate formation, noticeably. Using 300?ppm SDS increases the SC and the quantity of methane uptake 615, and 770%, respectively, compared with pure water. Investigating the hydrate growth rate at the start of hydrate formation process shows that, using SNPs, SDS, and their mixture increases the initial apparent rate constant of hydrate rate, considerably. Our results show that the system of methane?+?water?+?SDS 500?ppm?+?SNPs 45?µM represents the maximum value of initial apparent rate constant, compared with other tested systems.     

气体水合物抑制剂的研制与性能评价

针对海洋深水钻井过程中气体水合物的形成严重影响钻井作业的顺利进行等问题,室内经过大量的优选实验,采用甲基丙烯酸乙酯和N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮作为单体,并对单体比例、引发剂、反应温度及反应时间等综合因素进行分析,研制出低剂量气体水合物抑制剂HLA。通过四氢呋喃(THF)测试法和水合物生成模拟实验装置评价其效果,实验结果表明:盐类气体水合物抑制剂能使形成气体水合物的温度和压力条件得到改变,此外还可以有效的抑制气体水合物的形成;低剂量气体水合物抑制剂HLA能使水合物的形成速率得到有效降低,使形成水合物晶核的诱导时间得到一定的延长,使晶体的聚集过程得到一定的改变,但并不能从实际上改变气体水合物形成的相平衡。     

高含水油包水乳液的水合物储气性能研究

油包水乳液是近年来新兴的一种水合强化材料,具有良好的水合储气潜力,但是为了保证乳液的稳定性,通常所用的油包水乳液含水量不超过50%。然而水合物的储气量与水含量密切相关,因此高含水的油包水乳液更具有应用前景。对含水量超过50%的油包水乳液进行了水合物的储甲烷研究,考察了乳化剂用量、初始压力及搅拌速率对储气性能的影响,最后考察了乳液的循环储气能力。结果表明：含水量超过55%后,含水量的增加会造成乳液液滴的增大,储气量的降低。乳液含水量为55%,复合乳化剂Span80 / Tween80（m_Tween80∶m_Span80=0.783∶1）用量5%（质量）（以水量为基准）的乳液最适合水合储气;初始压力的增加有利于水合储气性能的提高,但压力过高会造成水合物壳的快速形成,从而降低整体储气能力;适宜的搅拌速率有利于水合物的生成,过快或过慢都会引起水合速率的下降。本实验中最佳的乳液水合储气条件为：温度274.15 K、反应釜中气水体积比10∶1、甲烷初始压力6 MPa、搅拌速率700 r/min,在此条件下,储气量可达141.42 L 气/L 水。在此条件下进行循环储气实验证明该乳液具有良好的循环利用性,四次循环中储气量均在130 L 气/L 水以上。研究结果可为天然气储运以及含烃混合气分离提供技术参考。     

低剂量超吸水树脂溶液微滴中甲烷水合物生成动力学

高储气密度水合物的快速生成对气体水合物技术应用至关重要。将水与疏水性气相纳米二氧化硅和低剂量［0.1%~1.0%（质量）］的超吸水树脂在搅拌器中高速混合分散,制备出一种超吸水树脂改性的干水。该改性干水实质上是由高分子聚合物支撑且可自由流动的分散微滴堆。在8.0 MPa和274.2 K条件下,研究该改性微滴中甲烷水合物生成动力学特性。结果表明,松散的聚合物微滴极大地改善了液相连续水比表面积,为气体扩散至微滴表面提供了丰富的通道。水合物在聚合物微滴中快速生成,储气速率可达5.15~8.78 cm³·g^-1·min^-1,储气量高达158.0~175.0 cm³·g^-1。质量分数为0.3%的微滴表现出最快储存速率和最高储气量,且其循环水合储气过程中前6次储气量均超过120 cm³·g^-1。研究结果对水合物储运天然气技术规模化应用有一定的参考价值。     

低剂量超吸水树脂溶液微滴中甲烷水合物生成动力学

高储气密度水合物的快速生成对气体水合物技术应用至关重要。将水与疏水性气相纳米二氧化硅和低剂量［0.1%~1.0%（质量）］的超吸水树脂在搅拌器中高速混合分散,制备出一种超吸水树脂改性的干水。该改性干水实质上是由高分子聚合物支撑且可自由流动的分散微滴堆。在8.0 MPa和274.2 K条件下,研究该改性微滴中甲烷水合物生成动力学特性。结果表明,松散的聚合物微滴极大地改善了液相连续水比表面积,为气体扩散至微滴表面提供了丰富的通道。水合物在聚合物微滴中快速生成,储气速率可达5.15~8.78 cm³·g^-1·min^-1,储气量高达158.0~175.0 cm³·g^-1。质量分数为0.3%的微滴表现出最快储存速率和最高储气量,且其循环水合储气过程中前6次储气量均超过120 cm³·g^-1。研究结果对水合物储运天然气技术规模化应用有一定的参考价值。