4TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering & SCIENCE - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2017-08-05)

Experimental Equipment Validation For Methane (CH4) And Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Hydrates

Clathrate hydrates are well-known structures considered as a thread to the gas and oil industry in light of their irritating propensity to subsea pipelines. For natural gas transmission and processing, the formation of gas hydrate is one of the major flow assurance has led researchers toward conducting new and detailed studies on various aspects of gas hydrates. This paper highlighted the thermodynamic analysis on pure CH4, and CO2 gas hydrates on the custom fabricated equipment (Sapphire cell hydrate reactor) for experimental validation. CO2 gas hydrate formed at lower pressure (41 bar) as compared to CH4 gas hydrate (70 bar) while comparison of thermodynamic properties between CH4 and CO2 also presented in this study. This preliminary study could provide pathways for the quest of potent hydrate inhibitors.
Muhammad Saad Khan , Nathyaa Manner, Sana Yaqub , Nurani Karthwathi, Ali Qasim