If a gas mixture consisting of 82% methane, 13.5% ethane and 4.5% propane, is subjected to all necessary conditions for gas hydrate formation, which type of gas hydrate is most likely to be formed?
If in the system there are methane(dominant) and ethane, sI hydrate will form.At certain conditions, if there is around 70 % methane and 30 % ethane, sII hydrate might form. In your case, the system contains 4.5% propane so sII hydrate will form. I advise you to use free software of Colorado School of Mines, CSMGem.
Structure II for your system.
T/ °C P/ bara Structure
-10 4.19788 II
-9 4.380932 II
-8 4.570508 II
-7 4.766825 II
-6 4.969939 II
-5 5.179886 II
-4 5.396914 II
-3 5.621045 II
-2 5.852275 II
-1 6.090849 II
0 6.414542 II
1 7.276153 II
2 8.242773 II
3 9.32716 II
4 10.544 II
5 11.91 II
6 13.445 II
7 15.172 II
8 17.117 II
9 19.313 II
10 21.797 II
11 24.616 II
12 27.827 II
13 31.501 II
14 35.731 II
15 40.636 II
16 46.377 II
17 53.18 II
18 61.374 II1
9 71.456 II
20 84.217 II
21 100.898 II
22 123.117 II
23 151.827 II
24 186.398 II
25 225.855 II
26 269.715 II
27 317.769 II
28 369.898 II
29 425.989 II
30 485.94 II
Thanks for your answers, Şükrü Merey and Antonin Chapoy. Kindly reference experimental research papers for more details.
there are many softwares available to predict this structure (aspen hysys, petrosim,...), but in this case, the given data by Prof. Chapoy are useful. we also have an in-house software, if required, send me an message to check it.
You can use the hydrate dissociation curve calculation module of my EQ-COMP software to find type of hydrates formed at hydrate equilibrium temperatures for pressure values ranging from 0.4 bars to 800 bars for any hydrocarbon mixture. Sample results and more information is available at
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