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TBAB hydrate formation and growth in a microdevice under static and dynamic conditions
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The natural gas hydrate has become one of the most promising future green energy sources on the earth.The natural gas hydrates mostly exist in the sediments with porous structure,so a solid understanding of the hydrate formation and growth processes in the porous medium is of significance for the exploitation of natural gas hydrate.The micro-packed bed device is one of the efficient microfluidic devices in the engineering field,but it has been rarely used for the hydrate-based research.In this study,a transparent micro-packed bed device filled with glass beads was developed to mimic the porous condition of sed-iments,and used to in-situ visualize the hydrate formation and growth habits in the pore spaces under both static and dynamic conditions.For the static experiment,two types of hydrate growth patterns in porous medium were observed and identified in the micro-packed bed device,which were the grain-coating growth and pore-filling growth.For the dynamic condition,the hydrate formation,growth,distribution habits and hydrate blockage phenomena in the pore spaces were in-situ visually captured.The impacts of flowrate and subcooling on the pressure variation of the micro-packed bed and the duration of the hydrate growth under dynamic flow condition in pores were in-situ monitored and analyzed.The higher flowrate could result in the faster hydrate growth and more severe blockage in pores,but the effect of subcooling condition might be less significant at the high flowrate.
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