Hydrate growth over a sessile drop of water in cyclopentane
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Author(s)
Kamel, Muhammad A
Lobasov, Aleksei S
Lakshmi Narayanan, Surya Narayan
Pervunin, Konstantin S
Markides, Christos N
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Liquid cyclopentane is frequently used in hydrate formation studies as an analogue of natural gas because cyclopentane hydrates are stable above the ice melting point at ambient pressure. In this study, hydrate growth was established on a sessile water drop of 11 mm in diameter and 4.5 mm in height (volume of 0.25 mL) immersed in liquid cyclopentane. The hydrate formation mechanism and growth processes were observed optically over an extended range of subcooling temperatures from 5.1 to 15.2 °C, with the cyclopentane bulk temperature maintained in different experimental runs between 2.6 and −7.5 °C. Qualitative and quantitative comparisons were performed to confirm the absence of ice freezing during hydrate formation, and thus, the lack of contamination of the latter from the former in the experiments. Different transformations in the hydrate film morphology were registered from macroscopic observation over the considered range of subcooling temperatures, with the hydrate crystals composing the film taking the form of polyhedral, dendritic, or spherulitic structures. It was also found that the hydrate growth rate varied depending on the subcooling temperature, with the variation of the growth rate as a function of this temperature changing from a power to an (approximately) linear law with an increase in the degree of subcooling. We postulate that hydrate film growth can be governed by different mechanisms, whose roles change over the range of explored subcooling temperatures.
Date Issued
2023-06-07
Date Acceptance
2023-05-03
Citation
Crystal Growth and Design, 2023, 23 (6), pp.4273-4284
ISSN
1528-7483
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
4273
End Page
4284
Journal / Book Title
Crystal Growth and Design
Volume
23
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This work is published under a CC BY licence.
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Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00087
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-05-24