气体水合物促进剂研究进展

气体水合物技术涉及的领域非常广泛,但受到生成条件苛刻、诱导时间长、形成速率缓慢、含气率低等因素的影响,严重阻碍了该技术的应用,而添加促进剂是一种有效的解决方法.综述了国内外促进剂种类、促进性能评价方法及促进机理分析等方面的研究现状,指出了未来的研究方向.     

Construction of a Holliday Junction in Small Circular DNA Molecules for Stable Motifs and Two‐Dimensional Lattices

Design rules for DNA nanotechnology have been mostly learnt from using linear single‐stranded (ss) DNA as the source material. For example, the core structure of a typical DAO (double crossover, antiparallel, odd half‐turns) tile for assembling 2D lattices is constructed from only two linear ss‐oligonucleotide scaffold strands, similar to two ropes making a square knot. Herein, a new type of coupled DAO (cDAO) tile and 2D lattices of small circular ss‐oligonucleotides as scaffold strands and linear ss‐oligonucleotides as staple strands are reported. A cDAO tile of cDAO‐c64nt (c64nt: circular 64 nucleotides), shaped as a solid parallelogram, is constructed with a Holliday junction (HJ) at the center and two HJs at both poles of a c64nt; similarly, cDAO‐c84nt, shaped as a crossed quadrilateral composed of two congruent triangles, is formed with a HJ at the center and four three‐way junctions at the corners of a c84nt. Perfect 2D lattices were assembled from cDAO tiles: infinite nanostructures of nanoribbons, nanotubes, and nanorings, and finite nanostructures. The structural relationship between the visible lattices imaged by AFM and the corresponding invisible secondary and tertiary molecular structures of HJs, inclination angle of hydrogen bonds against the double‐helix axis, and the chirality of the tile can be interpreted very well. This work could shed new light on DNA nanotechnology with unique circular tiles.     

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     

Triplex Formation by Oligonucleotides Containing Organomercurated Base Moieties

Homothymine oligonucleotides with a single 5‐mercuricytosine or 5‐mercuriuracil residue at their termini have been synthesized and their capacity to form triplexes has been examined with an extensive array of double‐helical targets. UV and circular dichroism (CD) melting experiments revealed the formation and thermal denaturation of pyrimidine ? purine*pyrimidine‐type triple helices with all oligonucleotide combinations studied. Nearly all triplexes were destabilized upon mercuration of the 3′‐terminal residue of the triplex‐forming oligonucleotide, in all likelihood due to competing intramolecular Hg^II‐mediated base pairing. Two exceptions from this general pattern were, however, observed: 5‐mercuricytosine was stabilizing when placed opposite to a T ? A or A ? T base pair. The stabilization was further amplified in the presence of 2‐mercaptoethanol (but not hexanethiol, thiophenol or cysteine), suggesting a stabilizing interaction other than Hg^II‐mediated base pairing.     

环戊烷水合物平衡数据

In the oil and gas industry, it is important to determine hydrate phase boundary for avoiding hydrate formation. In general n-butane is regarded as the heaviest hydrocarbon hydrate. But for oil and gas condensate systems, it has been found that some hydrocarbons heavier than n-butane could enter the large cavity of structure-II hydrate due to their effective van der Waal's diameter. The hydrate formation characteristics of benzene[1], cyclohexane[2], and cyclopentane and neopentane in their binaries/tern-aries with methane or/and nitrogen have been reported[3]. Ripmeester et al[4] pointed out that cyclopentane could form gas hydrates without a help gas. However there are no further experimental data to support it.     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HFC-134a GAS HYDRATE FORMATION PROCESS

Refrigerant gas hydrates have brilliant prospects as cool storage material of air-conditioning system. In this paper, when the ratio of the weight of HFC-134a to that of water is 2.17%, systematic experiments have been carried out on the formation process of the HFC-134a gas hydrate including of the phase equilibrium, the influence of supercooling degree, and the influence of agitation. The results indicate that the critical decomposition temperature and the critical decomposition pressure of R134a hydrate is 283.4K and 414K respectively, the formation of gas hydrate was promoted with increasing the supercooling degree and the agitation. However, it is desired that the supercooling degree is smaller. Therefore, it is important problem that the study of optimum of supercooling degree for cool storage system.     

Noncovalent binding of a reaction intermediate by a designed helix-loop-helix motif-implications for catalyst design

In our search for a catalyst for the transamination reaction of aspartic acid to form oxaloacetate, twenty-five forty-two-residue sequences were designed to fold into helix-loop-helix dimers and form binding sites for the key intermediate along the reaction pathway, the aldimine. This intermediate is formed from aspartic acid and the cofactor pyridoxal phosphate. The design of the binding sites followed a strategy in which exclusively noncovalent forces were used for binding the aldimine. Histidine residues were incorporated to catalyse the rate-limiting 1,3 proton transfer reaction that converts the aldimine into the ketimine, an intermediate that is subsequently hydrolysed to form oxaloacetate and pyridoxamine phosphate. The two most efficient catalysts, T-4 and T-16, selected from the pool of sequences by a simple screening procedure, were shown by CD and NMR spectroscopies to bind the aldimine intermediate with dissociation constants in the millimolar range. The mean residue ellipticity of T-4 in aqueous solution at pH 7.4 and a concentration of 0.75 mM was -18500 deg x cm(2) dmol(-1). Upon addition of 6 mm l-aspartic acid and 1.5 mM pyridoxal phosphate to form the aldimine, the mean residue ellipticity changed to -19900 deg x cm(2) dmol(-1). The corresponding mean residue ellipticities of T-16 were -21200 deg x cm(2) dmol(-1) and -24000 deg x cm(2) dmol(-1). These results show that the helical content increased in the presence of the aldimine, and that the folded polypeptides bound the aldimine. The (1)H NMR relaxation time of the imine CH proton of the aldimine was affected by the presence of T-4 as was the (31)P NMR resonance linewidth. The catalytic efficiencies of T-4 and T-16 were compared to that of imidazole and found to be more than three orders of magnitude larger. The designed binding sites were thus shown to be capable of binding the aldimine in close proximity to His residues, by noncovalent forces, into conformations that proved to be catalytically active. The results show for the first time the design of well-defined catalytic sites that bind a reaction intermediate with enzyme-like affinities under equilibrium conditions and represent an important advance in de novo catalyst design.     

水合物法开发高寒地区湖盐设想相平衡验证

为了从相平衡条件角度验证气体水合物法开发我国高寒地区湖盐的设想,以van der Waals-Platteeuw模型为基础,结合杜亚和等提出的计算Langmuir常数的三参数方程和计算电解质溶液中水的活度的Pitzer方程,在国际上首次模拟了饱和NaCl溶液中一氟二氯乙烷(R141b)水合物的相平衡条件,并进行了实验验证。研究结果表明:10.1 kPa时饱和NaCl溶液中R141b水合物的生成温度为259.77 K,高于常压下饱和NaCl溶液凝固点250.81 K,也高于青海地区最冷月平均环境温度。因此,利用环境冷量实现气体水合物法节能开发我国高寒地区湖盐具备理论可能性。     

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.     

Role of Guest Molecules on the Hydrate Growth at Vapor‐Liquid Interfaces

Systematic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to illustrate the roles of guest molecules played in the process of hydrate growth at vapor‐liquid interfaces. In our simulations, guest molecules are represented by a commonly used single‐site Lennard–Jones model, and the roles of guest molecules on hydrate growth have been investigated separately from the effect of water–guest molecule attractive interaction ε and that of molecular size σ, respectively. Our simulation results demonstrate that the water‐guest molecule attraction regulates the pathway and rate of nucleus growth, whereas the size of guest molecules determines the dynamically preferable structure. © 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 59: 2621–2629, 2013     

不同季铵盐作用下的CO2水合物相平衡

CO₂气体水合物形成热力学性质是实施海水淡化、沼气纯化、碳捕集和封存、能源利用、天然气储存等技术的关键。采用恒容温度搜索法,在温度272.75~294.35 K,压力0.35~4.50 MPa的范围内,探究了四种季铵盐促进剂对CO₂气体水合物相平衡的影响。结果表明,相同条件下,季铵盐作用下CO₂水合物的相平衡温度由高到低分别为：四丁基氟化铵（TBAF）>四丁基溴化铵（TBAB）>四丁基氯化铵（TBAC）>苄基三乙基氯化铵（TEBAC）。基于Clausius-Clapeyron方程,计算了不同体系的相变潜热,探讨了其对水合物稳定性的影响。可以看出,水合物的相平衡压力对数与温度倒数呈线性关系,其中,TBAF、TBAB作用下的CO₂水合物相变潜热相接近且明显高于其他季铵盐,说明其促进效果最好,所对应的水合物生成条件也最为温和。利用Chen-Guo模型,结合PR状态方程和改进Joshi经验活度模型,分别计算了TBAF、TBAB、TBAC和TEBAC作用下CO₂水合物热力学相平衡数据,计算结果与实验数据吻合良好,最大平均相对误差为7.50%。     

高压釜中加入复合添加剂的CO2水合物生长实验研究

开发研究了一套研究水合物生长特性的装置,通过实验研究了复合添加剂对CO2水合物生成条件的影响,分别选用十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)、十二烷基苯磺酸钠(SDBS)和两者的混合溶液作为实验用溶液.研究发现:当采用浓度为265mg/L的SDS和SDBS复合添加剂溶液时,CO2水合物的相平衡点最低,最易生成,此时的溶液体系能很好地...     

盐水体系中环戊烷-甲烷水合物相平衡测定与模拟

利用恒温搜索法测定了温度284.4~303.8 K、NaCl质量浓度0~9.978%水溶液中环戊烷-甲烷水合物(II型)的相平衡条件. 结果表明,该体系水合物相平衡压力远低于纯甲烷水合物,且随温度升高和盐度增大逐渐升高. 在Van der Waals-Platteeuw等温吸附模型和Pitzer活度模型的基础上建立了环戊烷-甲烷水合物在盐水体系中的相平衡理论模型,模拟预测值与实验测定值的吻合度较好,平均相对误差为4.07%,能较好地预测盐水体系中环戊烷-甲烷水合物(II型)的相平衡条件.     

孔隙尺寸、盐度和气体组分对水合物相平衡的影响(英文)

An experimental device was set up to study the hydrate formation conditions. Effects of pore size, salinity, and gas composition on the formation and dissociation of hydrates were investigated. The result indicates that the induction time for the formation of hydrates in porous media is shorter than that in pure water. The decrease in pore size, by decreasing the size of glass beads, increases the equilibrium pressure when the salinity and temperature are kept constant. In addition, higher salinity causes higher equilibrium pressure when the pore size and temperature are kept constant. It is found that the effects of pore size and salinity on the hydrate equilibrium are quite different. At lower methane concentration, the hydrate equilibrium is achieved at lower pressure and higher temperature.     

Xenon recovery from natural gas by multiple gas hydrate crystallization: a theory and simulation

ABSTRACT

For efficient xenon (Xe) recovery from natural gas (NG), multiple gas hydrate crystallization was considered. The optimal stages’ number for effective Xe recovery from model gas mixtures with close composition to NG one was determined. Gas hydrate distribution’s coefficients are defined for these gases at each stage, and each iterations of the multiple gas hydrate crystallization. In CH₄+ H₂S+CO₂+ Xe gas mixture that is closest to NG composition, the maximum average Xe concentration in the gas hydrate phase was observed at the second stage of the multiple gas hydrate crystallization.     

四丁基溴化铵-二氧化碳-水体系半笼水合物相平衡数据的测定

水合物相平衡数据是利用水合物捕集二氧化碳的基础数据,利用定容逐步加热的方法测量了四丁基溴化铵-二氧化碳-水三元体系水合物的相平衡数据,实验测量的压力和温度分别为1.0-4.3 MPa,282.75-292.15 K,四丁基溴化铵水溶液的质量分数为5％ -30％.实验结果表明:在一定的温度条件下,与纯水中二氧化碳水合物形...     

天然气中低碳烷烃的汽-液平衡研究

研究建立了天然气体系中汽-液两相相平衡理论模型并进行了计算。通过自主研发的热力学计算软件,使用PR方程,针对我国某LNG厂的天然气体系进行了相平衡计算,并做出了天然气的相包络图,为天然气的液化工艺设计提供可靠的数据支持和理论依据。