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.
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