A straightforward model for determining gas hydrate phase equilibrium conditions and enthalpy of hydrate dissociation for natural gas components
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Abstract
Abstract A significant challenge in natural gas transportation through pipelines is the occurrence of gas hydrate formation. An adequate understanding of the phase equilibrium conditions of gas hydrate is essential for implementing an effective gas hydrate prevention plan. The van der Waals‐Platteeuw (vdW‐P) model is the most commonly employed statistical model to estimate the phase equilibrium conditions of gas hydrates. However, this model is complex and highly sensitive to the values of the Kihara potential parameters and thermodynamic reference properties. Several correlation‐based alternatives have been proposed to replace the vdW‐P model. Although some of those models work very well in gas hydrate phase equilibrium calculations, the majority of them exhibit inaccuracies and are constrained by their inability to accurately predict behaviour under extreme pressure–temperature conditions. This work seeks to present a concise theoretical equation for determining the gas hydrate dissociation conditions of simple gas hydrates of several gas hydrate formers, such as methane, ethane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide, and oxygen. The basis of this model is the slight variation in the enthalpy of hydrate dissociation with temperature. The model is capable of determining both hydrate dissociation pressure and temperature. The results from the proposed model are compared to those from the vdW‐P model using both the old Kihara potential parameters reported in the literature and the new Kihara potential parameters optimized in this study, along with a comprehensive database of reliable experimental data. The proposed model accurately predicts the gas hydrates dissociation conditions for 1879 experimental data points of seven hydrate formers at pressures ranging from 0.093 to 493 MPa. The average absolute deviation (AAD) T and the average absolute relative deviation (AARD) P of the proposed model results for all data are 0.25 K and 2.82%, respectively. The enthalpy of hydrate dissociation () was computed after performing phase equilibrium calculations. The results demonstrate that the proposed model can accurately compute for all hydrate formers. This fact is well demonstrated by comparing the calculated () with experimental results.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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