Journal
ACTA PHYSICO-CHIMICA SINICA
Volume 27, Issue 12, Pages 2773-2778Publisher
PEKING UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB20112773
Keywords
Methane hydrate; Chloride salt solution; Dissociation condition; Salting-out effect; Water activity
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- Ministry of Land and Resources Research of China in the Public Interest [201111026-3]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China (973) [2009CB219503]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China [ZR2009FQ017]
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A method that can be used for gas hydrate exploitation is the injection of a brine solution into hydrate reservoir, therefore, the hydrate dissociation conditions and the influencing factors in brine solution should be investigated under reservoir pressure. In this paper, methane hydrate dissociation conditions in NaCl, MgCl(2), and CaCl(2) solutions were investigated. The results show that the dissociation temperature depressions are (4.8, 2.4, 1.0 K (NaCl)), (5.3, 1.5 K (MgCl(2))), (4.3, 1.8 K (CaCl(2))) in NaCl (2.0, 1.0, 0.5 mol . L(-1)), MgCl(2) (1.0, 0.5 mol . L(-1)), and CaCl(2) (1.0, 0.5 mol . L(-1)) solutions, respectively, relative to those in pure water. The experimental values were in good agreement with the calculated values based on the van der Weals and Platteeuw thermodynamic model and the Pitzer-Mayorga equation for the water activity of electrolyte solution. In chloride salt solution the water molecule solvent effect and the salting-out effect that is caused by an electrostatic field decreases the water activity resulting in a depression of the hydrate dissociation temperature.
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