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Article history: Interest has grown in tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (TBAB) semi-clathrates due to their formation at
Received 31 March 2014 lower pressures and higher temperatures than conventional gas hydrates. This study focuses on TBAB
Received in revised form 19 December 2014 semi-clathrates formed with carbon dioxide and methane and is to our knowledge the first study to
Accepted 29 December 2014
report and model semi-clathrate former solubility under hydrate–liquid–vapor equilibrium conditions. A
Available online 2 January 2015
thermodynamic model was developed using the Trebble–Bishnoi equation of state to calculate vapor and
liquid phase fugacity. Liquid activity was determined using the electrolyte non-random two liquid model
Keywords:
(eNRTL). The solid semi-clathrate phase was modeled using a modified van der Waals–Platteeuw model
Semi-clathrate hydrate
Phase equilibria
(vdW–P), with parameters re-optimized based on the data obtained in this study. Equilibrium conditions
Solubility were successfully modeled over the temperature range of 281–294 K, pressure range of 377–11,000 kPa
TBAB and TBAB composition range of 5–40 wt%. The model functioned well for carbon dioxide with an average
Modeling absolute relative error (AARE) of 4.7% for pressure prediction and an AARE of 17.5% for solubility. Methane
was more difficult to model and yielded AAREs of 21.6% for pressure and 32.5% for solubility. Further
understanding of semi-clathrate crystal structure and interactions between methane and TBAB would
aid in improving the model.
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Fig. 1. A schematic of the procedure for determining the compositions of the liquid sample taken from the crystallizer.
!
bH
discarded, while the other four samples were used for analysis. A H b Dmw ðT; PÞ
f w ðT; PÞ ¼ f w ðT; PÞexp (2)
schematic showing the analysis of each sample bomb can be seen RT
in Fig. 1. This consisted of first weighing of the bombs following b
sample loading. A gasometer was then used to depressurize the where f w is the fugacity in the hypothetical empty clathrate phase
bH
sample bombs, which were left for 2 h to equilibrate. Gas volume, and Dmw is the chemical potential difference between the filled
temperature, and atmospheric pressure were noted. The liquid was and empty hydrate phases as defined below by van der Waals and
then taken out of the sample bombs, weighed, and placed on a Platteeuw [28]:
hotplate to evaporate the water and leave only TBAB salt. Following 0 1ni
2 h at 80 C, the water had completely evaporated leaving only the DmwbH ðT; PÞ X NS X
NH
¼ ln@1 þ C i;j ðT Þf j ðT; PÞA (3)
solid TBAB to be weighed. The samples bombs were then washed RT i¼1 j¼1
and the process repeated at the next measurement condition.
where f j is the fugacity of hydrate former j,vi is the number of
3. Vapor–liquid–hydrate equilibrium model cavities of type i per water molecule and Ci,j is a Langmuir constant
given by a correlation proposed by Parrish and Prausnitz [27] that
The basic thermodynamic equation for the three-phase vapor– is valid in the range 260–300 K.
liquid–hydrate equilibrium is fugacity equality in all phases for The fugacity of water in the hypothetical empty hydrate lattice
each component, as shown in Eq. (1): and in the liquid is given by the following two common
H L V
thermodynamic equations:
f i ðT; PÞ ¼ f i ðT; PÞ ¼ f i ðT; PÞ½i ¼ 1; . . . ; N (1) !
p b b V bw ðT; PÞ½P Psat;b
ðTÞ
where N is the total number of components in the system and f i is f w ðT; PÞ ¼ Psat;
w ðTÞexp w
(4)
RT
the fugacity of component i in phase p.
p
The fugacity of water and gas components in the liquid and where Psat;w is the saturation pressure of water and V p w is the molar
vapor phase can be calculated from a suitable equation of state. In volume of water in phase p, which in the case of Eq. (4) is the
this study, the Trebble–Bishnoi equation of state is used since it has empty hydrate lattice (b), and
been shown to accurately model interactions between the water !
and gasses chosen in this study [25,26]. Under the temperature and V Lw ðT; PÞ½P Psat;L
w ðTÞ
f w ðT; PÞ ¼ xw ðT; PÞg w ðxw ; TÞPw ðTÞexp
L sat;L
pressure conditions of the study other equations of state such as RT
the Patel–Teja would likely give similar results. It was assumed that
(5)
no TBAB is present in the gas phase because of its non-volatile
nature. The critical properties and interaction parameters used in where xw is the mole fraction of water in the liquid phase and g w is
the equation of state are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. the activity coefficient of water. The fugacity of the TBAB salt is
Additionally, the solubility of the gas in the liquid phase is assumed determined using a similar basic thermodynamic formula [16]
to be unaffected by the presence of TBAB, which is further shown as Eq. (6).
discussed in Section 4.3 of this paper. L
f TBAB ðT; PÞ
To calculate water fugacity in the hydrate phase, Parrish and
0 L h i1
Prausnitz [27] proposed a modification to the vdW–P [28] model to V TBAB ðT; PÞ P Psat;L
TBAB ðT Þ
¼ g
xLTBAB ðT; PÞ TBAB ðxw ; TÞPsat;L @ A
TBAB ðT Þexp
calculate the chemical potential of water in the hydrate phase.
Klauda and Sandler [29] calculated water fugacity using the RT
chemical potential from Parrish and Prausnitz [27] and this same (6)
technique is used in this paper. Eqs. (2)–(5) were taken from
Klauda and Sandler [29]:
Table 1
Critical parameters of different compounds for the Trebble–Bishnoi equation of state [25,26].
Table 2 Table 3
Interaction parameters between water–gas for the Trebble–Bishnoi equation of Constants in Eqs. (14) and (15) for calculating TBAB density [38].
state [27].
Subscript si ri qi
Components KA KB KC KD
1 1.707 108 5.693 106 4.549 104
CO2–H2O 0.9688 0.5181 0.3757 0.1647 2 4.570 109 3.099 106 5.304 104
CH4–H2O 0.4199 0.1727 0.0001 1.2274 3 0 4.088 108 7.091 106
The activity coefficients of both water and TBAB were 6 1353:108782
Psat
TBAB ½Pa ¼ 10 exp 0:999694 (11)
determined using the electrolyte NRTL (eNRTL) activity T½K
coefficient model [30,31]. In this model, the non-randomness
factor was set to a = 0.2 [30] and the binary parameters used were The molar volume equations are from Klauda and Sandler [29].
t H2 O;TBAB ¼ 8:3169 and t TBAB;H2 O ¼ 3:6717 [14,32]. The empty clathrate molar volume constants were obtained by
The objective function Eq. (7) can be found by putting together regressing the experimental thermal expansion of hydrate data by
Eqs. (1)–(6) Tse [33].
gðT; PÞ ¼ 0 3
m
V bw
b mol
sat;b
Psat; b
exp V w ½PP w ni
¼1
w
L
RT
P 1 þ S C i;j f j 1030 NA
sat;L
V w ½PPw
(7) ¼ ð11:835 þ 2:217 105 T½K þ 2:242 106 T½K2 Þ3
xw g w Psat;L
w exp RT
i j 46
8:006 109 P½MPa þ 5:448 1012 P½MPa2 (12)
where i, found in the product term, denotes the different types of where NA is Avogadro’s number and P is in units of MPa.
cavities in the hydrate structure. As will be explained in more detail The molar volume of pure water equation was obtained using
later, the TBAB–water system forms a structure with two large experimental data from Perry’s Handbook [34] and NIST [35].
cages occupied by TBAB and one small cage occupied by a guest gas 3
m
molecule. The summation of all j’s is over each guest molecule. For V Lw ¼ exp 10:9241 þ 2:5 104ðT½K273:15Þ 3532
every specific cavity type, there is only one possible guest and as a mol
result, the objective function becomes:
104 ðP½MPa 0:101325Þ þ 1:559
gðT; PÞ ¼ 0
107 ðP½MPa 0:101325Þ2 (13)
b sat;b
b V w ½PPw
Psat;
w exp
½ð1 þ C large1;TBAB f TBAB Þnlarge1
RT
¼1
V Lw ½PPsat;L
w
xw g sat;L
w P w exp RT The density, r, of the TBAB aqueous solution (inverse of molar
nlarge2 nsmall volume, V LTBAB ) was obtained from the Eqs. (14) and (15), which are
ð1 þ C large2;TBAB f TBAB Þ ð1 þ C small;gas f gas Þ (8)
both a function of temperature and TBAB weight fraction in water
[36,37]. The constants qi, ri and si are shown in Table 3.
The method for solving the three phase equilibrium using
kg
Eq. (8) is as follows. At a fixed temperature, the objective function rTBAB 3 ¼ rw þ o1 100wp þ o2 100wp 2 þ o3 100wp 3 (14)
m
is solved for a pressure using the bisection method. One must know
the pressure range to initialize the problem. Following this, the
temperature is changed and the process is repeated for the whole
oi ¼ q i þ r i T þ s i T 2 (15)
temperature range. The different model parameters and equations
used are explained below.
The first parameter is the saturation pressure of water in the The method of obtaining the Langmuir constants is derived
empty clathrate lattice. Eslamimanesh et al. [16] proposed the from Parrish and Prausnitz [27]. Eslamimanesh et al. [16] modified
following equation that takes into account the effect of TBAB the Langmuir constant equation to take into account the TBAB
weight percent, wP, on the cage structure by adding the adjustable presence in the hydrate lattice. The TBA+ molecules take up two
parameter a large cages in the hydrate lattice (larges 1 and 2), while each gas
molecule takes up a small cage similar to the small cage of
6003:9
Pbw ½Pa ¼ 10000exp 17:44 þ a wp (9) structure I clathrate. The affinity of the gas to stay in the hydrate
T½K
lattice is determined by this Langmuir constant and is assumed to
be the same as for structure I small cages without TBAB present
The saturation pressure of pure water is given by the following (similar water–gas interactions are assumed). For this reason, the
equation [29]: Langmuir constants for the gas in the small cages were taken
directly from Parrish and Prausnitz [27] and can be seen in Table 4.
5500:9332
Psat
w ½Pa ¼ exp 4:1539lnðT½KÞ The Langmuir constants for TBAB are found by adding a TBAB
T½K
weight fraction variable into the original equations as shown in
þ7:6537 16:1277 103 T½KÞ (10)
Table 4
Langmuir constants in Eq. (18) for methane and carbon dioxide [28].
An equation to calculate the saturation pressure of TBAB
Component D E
was taken from a paper by Eslamimanesh et al. [16]. The authors
CO2 0.0011978 2860.5
did not mention the constants in the publication but by author
CH4 0.0037237 2708.8
correspondence Eq. (11) was obtained.
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[(Fig._2)TD$IG]
Eqs. (16) and (17).
c
b
C large1 ¼ exp ð1 þ d wp Þ (16)
T T
e g
C large2 ¼ exp ð1 þ h wp Þ (17)
T T
D E
C small ¼ exp (18)
T T
4
nlarge2
typeA ¼ b
(20) Fig. 2. Experimental (vapor + liquid + hydrate) equilibrium pressures at various
NW temperatures and TBAB loading concentrations for the system CO2–TBAB–H2O. This
work: ", 5 wt%; *, 10 wt%; v, 40 wt%; literature: [TD$INLE], 5 wt% [21]; [TD$INLE], 5 wt% [23]; [TD$INLE],
10 wt% [21]; [TD$INLE], 10 wt% [23]; [TD$INLE], 40 wt% [24]; [TD$INLE], 42.7 wt% [9]; model: [TD$INLE] 5 wt%; [TD$INLE]
10 wt%; [TD$INLE] 40 wt%.
6
nsmall
typeA ¼ b
(21)
NW
Table 5
Optimized parameters for the proposed model.
Table 6
Experimental (vapor + liquid + hydrate) equilibrium data for temperature T, pressure P, carbon dioxide mole fraction xCO2 and TBAB mole fraction xTBAB with standard
uncertainties u(xCO2) and u(xTBAB) for the system CO2–TBAB–H2O.a
TBAB loading concentration/wt% T/K P/MPa xCO2 [x103] u(xCO2) [x103] xTBAB [x103] u(xTBAB) [x103]
5 281.1 0.859 7.054 0.038 2.436 0.017
5 283.1 1.329 10.007 0.091 2.714 0.028
5 285.1 2.526 16.470 0.046 2.635 0.016
5 286.1 3.254 19.474 0.026 2.729 0.004
5 287.2 4.678 23.890 0.213 2.711 0.033
10 283.1 0.683 4.970 0.236 5.062 0.186
10 285.1 1.352 9.080 0.090 4.939 0.011
10 287.4 2.317 13.330 0.041 5.475 0.032
10 288.2 3.011 16.193 0.074 5.526 0.100
10 289.1 3.975 19.183 0.030 5.471 0.035
40 285.1 0.477 3.144 0.050 35.577 0.368
40 287.1 1.021 9.462 0.564 36.180 0.372
40 289.2 1.957 13.411 0.374 37.537 0.432
40 290.1 2.609 15.535 0.115 34.310 0.392
40 291.2 3.594 21.418 0.753 36.157 0.317
a
Standard uncertainties are u(T) = 0.1 K and u(P) = 0.009 MPa.
computed taking into account the mass of guest and water in the
4. Results and discussion vapor using Eq. (23).
Fig. 4. Experimental (vapor + liquid + hydrate) equilibrium CO2 solubilities Fig. 5. Experimental (vapor + liquid + hydrate) equilibrium CH4 solubilities
at various temperatures and TBAB loading concentrations for the system at various temperatures and TBAB loading concentrations for the system
CO2–TBAB–H2O. This work: ", 5 wt%; [TD$INLE], 10 wt%; [TD$INLE], 40 wt%; model: [TD$INLE] 5 wt%; [TD$INLE] CH4–TBAB–H2O. This work: ", 5 wt%; [TD$INLE], 10 wt%; [TD$INLE], 20 wt%; model: [TD$INLE] 5 wt%; [TD$INLE]
10 wt%; [TD$INLE] 40 wt%. 10 wt%; [TD$INLE] 20 wt%.
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of the guest gas and is thus important to include in calculating values of temperature, pressure and liquid mole fractions can be
the total number of moles of guest gas in the sample. found in Table 6 for carbon dioxide and Table 7 for methane.
Standard uncertainties for temperature and pressure were
estimated to be u(T) = 0.1 K and u(P) = 0.009 MPa respectively. 4.3. Model fit
Uncertainty values for mole fractions were obtained using the
following formulas [45]. The solubility of the guest gas molecule in the liquid phase was
s modeled successfully for the TBAB–H2O–CO2 and TBAB–H2O–CH4
u ¼ pffiffiffi (26) equilibrium systems with gas, liquid and hydrate phases present.
n
The model temperature ranged from 281 K to 294 K and the
pressure ranged from 377 kPa to 11,000 kPa. Fig. 2 shows the
and pressure–temperature three-phase equilibrium line for the
sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
Pn ffi TBAB–water with carbon dioxide as a guest gas. The Average
k¼1 ðyk yÞ Absolute Relative Error (AARE) is used as a measure of model fit
s¼ (27)
ðn 1Þ with the experimental data and is shown for a general variable y in
Eq. (28):
where y is a general variable, with y being the average of a given set
100 X yexp ymodel
of n values of y, s is the standard deviation and u is the standard ndata
k
uncertainty. % AARE ¼ j k j (28)
ndata k¼1 yexp
k
Table 7
Experimental (vapor + liquid + hydrate) equilibrium data for temperature T, pressure P, methane mole fraction xCH4 and TBAB mole fraction xTBAB with standard uncertainties
u(xCH4) and u(xTBAB) for the system CH4–TBAB–H2O.a
TBAB loading concentration/wt% T/K P/MPa xCH4 [x103] u(xCH4) [x103] xTBAB [x103] u(xTBAB) [x103]
5 283.3 2.417 0.700 0.011 2.208 0.036
5 285.1 3.496 0.880 0.022 2.847 0.044
5 287.1 5.137 1.180 0.003 2.770 0.012
5 289.2 8.580 1.761 0.014 2.884 0.052
5 290.2 11.093 2.037 0.003 2.783 0.024
10 283.2 1.047 0.293 0.007 4.666 0.027
10 285.2 1.652 0.380 0.009 5.365 0.092
10 287.1 2.904 0.700 0.003 5.333 0.032
10 289.3 4.733 0.868 0.006 5.623 0.021
10 291.2 8.136 1.523 0.001 5.380 0.049
20 287.2 1.435 0.296 0.011 11.028 0.037
20 289.1 3.078 0.648 0.004 10.898 0.042
20 291.1 5.434 0.929 0.002 11.075 0.045
20 293.2 8.202 1.378 0.011 11.025 0.051
20 294.2 11.013 1.693 0.005 10.847 0.038
a
Standard uncertainties are u(T) = 0.1 K and u(P) = 0.009 MPa.
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Table 8
AAREs for 10% change in the empty cage molar volume parameter.
also be assessed using solubility data from previous studies in of 377–11,000 kPa and TBAB composition range of 5–40 wt%. When
comparison to the data found in this paper. The closest data point compared to experimental data, the equilibrium pressure was
for methane solubility found from literature was at 283.37 K and predicted with an AARE of 4.7% for CO2 and 21.6% for CH4.
2.799 MPa, where the solubility in pure water was measured to be Equilibrium gas solubility values were predicted with an AARE of
0.000893 [46]. The data point reported in this paper in Table 7 is 17.5% for CO2 and 32.5% for CH4. Significantly larger error for the
at 283.3 K and 2.321 MPa with 5 wt% TBAB loading where the methane model is attributed to its more complex interactions with
methane’s solubility is 0.000700. Another example using CO2 TBAB–water and its lower solubility, and thus greater sensitivity to
solubility is shown with data from Valtz et al. where solubility of error, than carbon dioxide. Improvements in the model can be
CO2 in pure water at 288.26 K and 1.941 MPa is measured to be made as more information on semi-clathrate crystal structure’s
0.01434 [47]. The closest data point in Table 6 is at 289.2 K and dependence on different conditions and vapor–liquid equilibrium
1.957 MPa with 40 wt% TBAB loading where the liquid mole data for TBAB–H2O–CH4 systems become available. The current
fraction is 0.013411. These solubility results at hydrate forming study is the first known to report the solubility of guest gas
conditions can be contrasted with another study showing that the compounds in semi-clathrate systems and presents the first model
presence of 6.7 wt% TBAB led to a four-fold increase in the explicitly focusing on predicting gas solubility values. Both the data
solubility of methane at atmospheric pressure and 25 C [48]. and model present a basis for future research into hydrate former
These studies demonstrate that any effect TBAB has on hydrate solubility in semi-clathrate systems.
former solubility at lower pressures and higher temperatures is
not comparable to its effect under hydrate forming conditions. Acknowledgements
Improvements to the two phase flash could be made using
vapor–liquid equilibrium data existing in literature for The authors are grateful to the Natural Sciences and Engineering
TBAB–H2O–CO2 systems[13]. However no such data was found Research Council of Canada (NSERC), McGill University and
for TBAB–H2O–CH4 systems, presenting problems since the specifically the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA), les
methane system has the larger error. Another important Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
assumption is taking the hydration number as a constant for (FQRNT) and the Canada Research Chair Program (CRC) for financial
each guest gas. As discussed in the modeling section, the funding and support.
hydration number can change with pressure, temperature, TBAB
weight fraction and guest gases. Changing the hydration number Appendix A. Supplementary data
to be a function of TBAB weight fraction and guest gas type could
have a significant effect. Models can be adjusted as more Supplementary data associated with this article can be found, in
literature becomes available on the effect of these parameters the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2014.12.045.
on hydration number and structure. The assumption based on the
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