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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 403-412Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2017.03.022
Keywords
Molecular dynamic simulation; Methane hydrate; Dissociation; Inorganic salts; Liquid film
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB251200]
- National Science and Technology Major Project [2016ZX05044003]
- State's Key Project of Research and Development Plan [2016YFC0303408]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT_14R58]
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Gas hydrate is not only a potential energy resource, but also almost the biggest challenge in oil/gas flow assurance. Inorganic salts such as NaCl, KCl and CaCl2 are widely used as the thermodynamic inhibitor to reduce the risk caused by hydrate formation. However, the inhibition mechanism is still unclear. Therefore, molecular dynamic (MD) simulation was performed to study the dissociation of structure I (SI) methane hydrate in existence of inorganic salt aqueous solution on a micro-scale. The simulation results showed that, the dissociation became stagnant due to the presence of liquid film formed by the decomposed water molecules, and more inorganic ions could shorten the stagnation-time. The diffusion coefficients of ions and water molecules were the largest in MCI system. The structures of ion/H20 and H2O/H2O were the most compact in hydrate/NaCl system. The ionic ability to decompose hydrate cells followed the sequence of: Ca2+> 2K(+) > 2CI- >2N(a+). (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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