Enthalpies of Hydrate Formation and Dissociation from Residual Thermodynamics

Solomon Aforkoghene Aromada, Bjørn Kvamme, Na Wei and Navid Saeidi
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Solomon Aforkoghene Aromada: Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Bjørn Kvamme: State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Xindu Road No. 8, Chengdu 610500, China
Na Wei: State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Xindu Road No. 8, Chengdu 610500, China
Navid Saeidi: Environmental Engineering Department, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-26

Abstract: We have proposed a consistent thermodynamic scheme for evaluation of enthalpy changes of hydrate phase transitions based on residual thermodynamics. This entails obtaining every hydrate property such as gas hydrate pressure-temperature equilibrium curves, change in free energy which is the thermodynamic driving force in kinetic theories, and of course, enthalpy changes of hydrate dissociation and formation. Enthalpy change of a hydrate phase transition is a vital property of gas hydrate. However, experimental data in literature lacks vital information required for proper understanding and interpretation, and indirect methods of obtaining this important hydrate property based on the Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equations also have some limitations. The Clausius-Clapeyron approach for example involves oversimplifications that make results obtained from it to be inconsistent and unreliable. We have used our proposed approach to evaluate consistent enthalpy changes of hydrate phase transitions as a function of temperature and pressure, and hydration number for CH 4 and CO 2 . Several results in the literature of enthalpy changes of hydrate dissociation and formation from experiment, and Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron approaches have been studied which show a considerable disagreement. We also present the implication of these enthalpy changes of hydrate phase transitions to environmentally friendly production of energy from naturally existing CH 4 hydrate and simultaneously storing CO 2 on a long-term basis as CO 2 hydrate. We estimated enthalpy changes of hydrate phase transition for CO 2 to be 10–11 kJ/mol of guest molecule greater than that of CH 4 within a temperature range of 273–280 K. Therefore, the exothermic heat liberated when a CO 2 hydrate is formed is greater or more than the endothermic heat needed for dissociation of the in-situ methane hydrate.

Keywords: hydrate; enthalpy; hydrate formation; residual thermodynamics; CO 2; methane; hydration number; hydrate dissociation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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