Hydrate Formation 1

[klyons]

We are trying to cut costs by taking down a dehydrator but the concern is hydrate formation. How do I calculate the temperature at which hydrates will begin to form based on pressure and water content? This is for a natural gas pipeline.

I hav found some articles on hydrates and they all discuss the hydrate temperature but I have yet to find one that goes into how to calculate the hydrate temperature.

Thanks!

 

[vzeos]

see attached publication "Gas Hydrates and Their Relation to the Operation of Natural-GasPipe Lines"

http://www.prci.com/publications/FreeReports/L41020e.pdf

 

[klyons]

I have read that before and while they do give a lot of useful graphs they are only for specific compositions and they don't give the mathematical relation that they came up with to determine the hydrate temperature.

 

[dcasto]

ok, call me master on this one. Go to this Humble College and down load the information from the master of Hydrates, Dr Dendy Sloan.

http://hydrates.mines.edu/CHR/Software.html