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Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmmr43a1064o&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #MR43A-1064
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0343 Planetary Atmospheres (5210, 5405, 5704), 0714 Clathrate, 1030 Geochemical Cycles (0330), 1060 Planetary Geochemistry (5405, 5410, 5704, 5709, 6005, 6008)
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Compound hydrate reactions are affected by the local concentration of hydrate forming materials (HFM). The relationship between HFM composition and the phase boundary is as significant as temperature and pressure. Selective uptake and sequestration of preferred hydrate formers (PF) has wide ranging implications for the state and potential use of natural hydrate formation, including impact on climate. Rising mineralizing fluids of hydrate formers (such as those that occur on Earth and are postulated to exist elsewhere in the solar system) will sequester PF before methane, resulting in a positive relationship between depth and BTU content as ethane and propane are removed before methane. In industrial settings the role of preferred formers can separate gases. When depressurizing gas hydrate to release the stored gas, the hydrate initial composition will set the decomposition phase boundary because the supporting solution takes on the composition of the hydrate phase. In other settings where hydrate is formed, transported, and then dissociated, similar effects can control the process. The behavior of compound hydrate systems can primarily fit into three categories: 1) In classically closed systems, all the material that can form hydrate is isolated, such as in a sealed laboratory vessel. In such systems, formation and decomposition are reversible processes with observed hysteresis related to mass or heat transfer limitations, or the order and magnitude in which individual hydrate forming gases are taken up from the mixture and subsequently released. 2) Kinetically closed systems are exposed to a solution mass flow across a hydrate mass. These systems can have multiple P-T phase boundaries based on the local conditions at each face of the hydrate mass. A portion of hydrate that is exposed to fresh mineralizing solution will contain more preferred hydrate formers than another portion that is exposed to a partially depleted solution. Examples of kinetically closed systems include pipeline blockages and natural hydrate concentrations associated with upwelling fluids in marine sediments. 3) In open systems, mass can either flow into or out of a system. In such situations compound hydrate will form or decompose to re-establish chemical equilibrium. This is accomplished by 1) loading/consuming a preferred hydrate former to/from the surroundings, 2) lowering/raising the temperature of the system, and 3) increasing the local pressure. Examples of this type of system include hydrate produced for low pressure transport, depressurized or superheated hydrate settings (pipeline remediation or energy recovery), or in an industrial process where formation of compound hydrates may be used to separate and concentrate gases from a mixture. The relationship between composition and the phase boundary is as important as pressure and temperature effects. Composition is less significant for simple hydrates where the hydrate behaves as a one-component mineral, but for compound hydrate, feedback between pressure, temperature, and composition can result in complex system behavior.
Max Michael D.
Osegovic John P.
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