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Article

Characteristics of CO2 Hydrate Formation and Dissociation in Glass Beads and Silica Gel

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Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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China National Offshore Oil Corporation Research Center, Beijing 100027, China
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2012, 5(4), 925-937; https://doi.org/10.3390/en5040925
Submission received: 9 February 2012 / Revised: 21 March 2012 / Accepted: 6 April 2012 / Published: 16 April 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Gas Hydrate 2011)

Abstract

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CO2 hydrate formation and dissociation is crucial for hydrate-based CO2 capture and storage. Experimental and calculated phase equilibrium conditions of carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrate in porous medium were investigated in this study. Glass beads were used to form the porous medium. The experimental data were generated using a graphical method. The results indicated the decrease of pore size resulted in the increase of the equilibrium pressure of CO2 hydrate. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to investigate the priority formation site of CO2 hydrate in different porous media, and the results showed that the hydrate form firstly in BZ-02 glass beads under the same pressure and temperature. An improved model was used to predict CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions, and the predictions showed good agreement with experimental measurements.

1. Introduction

The greenhouse effect is leading to a significant climate warming and weather changes [1]. CO2 is considered to be one of the most important greenhouse gases, and the disposition of CO2 has become an issue of worldwide concern [2]. International Energy Agency (IEA) proposed that if the target of climate change control was obtained without CO2 capture and storage (CCS), the total cost will increase 70% more than with CCS by 2050 [3].
Gas hydrate technology is a new subject based on ice-like crystalline compounds where gas molecules are held within cavities formed by water molecules [4], and it is developed and used in some industrial field recently, including refrigeration, gas storage and transportation, gas separation. Hydrate-based CO2 separation as a promising option for fossil fuel power plant CO2 capture (the first step of CCS) is attracting people’s attention, which is a novel concept that aims to use CO2 hydrate to trap CO2 molecules in a lattice of water molecules [5]. The other proposed scheme is to sequester CO2 in form of gas hydrates in ocean and marine sediment (the last step of CCS) [6]. To make CO2 hydrate formation quick and economical during the capture process, or stabilized in marine sediments, it is necessary to understand the thermodynamic characters for CO2 hydrate formation and dissociation, especially the phase equilibrium conditions.
CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions have been widely investigated. Wendland et al. [7], Yang et al. [8], Englezos et al. [9], Breland et al. [10], Dholabhai et al. [11,12], Kang et al. [13], Mohammadi et al. [14] investigated the CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium in water with different additives. The studies concerning CO2 hydrate equilibrium in porous medium are also familiar. Handa and Stupin [15] observed the shift that hydrates capillary equilibria from that in the bulk water. Uchida, et al. [16] likewise observed an equilibria shift in silica glass with pores of radii 100 Å, 300 Å, and 500 Å, and they estimated that the apparent interfacial free energy between methane hydrates and water in the confined condition was approximately 3.9 × 10−2 J·m−2. At the same time, Clennell et al. [17] and Clarke et al. [18] also concluded that observed hydrate equilibrium shifts in the ocean floor were caused by capillary effects in small sediment pores. Zatsepina et al. [19] measured CO2 hydrate stability in porous media. They concluded that when the vapor phase of CO2 was absent, the volume of hydrate was limited by the transport of CO2 from solution. Smith et al. [20] measured equilibrium pressures for CO2 hydrate in silica gel pores with nominal radii of 7.5, 5.0, and 3.0 nm, and observed they were higher than those for CO2 hydrate in bulk water. Anderson et al. [21] presented experimental methane, carbon dioxide, and methane-carbon dioxide hydrate equilibrium and ice-melting data for meso-pores silica glass, and determined similar values of interfacial tensions for ice-water, methane clathrate-water, and carbon dioxide clathrate-water. Following their studies, Kumar [22] collected experimental equilibrium conditions data for CO2 hydrate in porous medium and measured the permeability of the porous medium in the presence of hydrate by flowing through the system. Turner et al. [23] reported that any shift in pores larger than 600 Å in radius cannot be distinguished from errors of the thermocouples in their equilibrium apparatus (with thermocouple error of ±0.5 K). Aladko et al. [24] investigation hydrates equilibrium of ethane, propane, and carbon dioxide dispersed in silica gel meso-pores at pressures up to 1 GPa. The result showed that the experimental dependence of hydrate decomposition temperature on the size of pores can be described on the basis of the Gibbs-Thomson equation only if one takes into account changes in the shape coefficient that is present in the equation.
In this work, considering the limited data available in macro porous medium, we carried out experiments in glass beads which enable the study of the impact of porosity-related properties like capillary effects on the equilibrium conditions. The characteristics of CO2 hydrate formation and dissociation in porous medium were investigated by experimental observations and numerical modeling. MRI was also used in this study to determine the priority formation position of CO2 hydrate in different pore sizes.

2. Experimental

2.1. Experimental Apparatus and Materials

The experimental apparatus used in this study is shown in Figure 1 and for further details of the experimental apparatus the reader can be referred to the previous publications of our research team [25,26]. A high-pressure resistant vessel made of 316-stainless steel with a volume of 476 mL is used as the reactor. Thermocouples (produced by Yamari Industries, Osaka, Japan) and two pressure transducers (produced by Nagano Keiki, Tokyo, Japan) are connected to the vessel. The estimated errors of temperature and pressure measurements are ±0.1 K and ±0.1 MPa, respectively. Glass beads (produced by As-One Co., Ltd., Japan) and silica gel (produced by Anhui Liangchen Silicon Material Co. Ltd., Huoshan, Anhui, China) were used to form porous medium. CO2 (mass fraction 0.999) was provided by Dalian Guangming Special Gas Co. Ltd., China. Table 1 summarizes the specifications of all the components. All the chemicals were unpurified and the de-ionized water was used in all the experiments.
Figure 1. Scheme of the gas hydrate experimental apparatus.
Figure 1. Scheme of the gas hydrate experimental apparatus.
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Table 1. Property and supplier of materials.
Table 1. Property and supplier of materials.
MaterialPurity/CompositionParticle sizeSupplier
CO299.9%Dalian Guangming special gas Co., Ltd., China
BZ-01Soda glass0.105–0.125 mmAs-One Co., Ltd., Japan
BZ-02Soda glass0.177–0.250 mmAs-One Co., Ltd., Japan
BZ-04Soda glass0.350–0.500 mmAs-One Co., Ltd., Japan
Mix glass beadsSoda glass and clay0.125–1.0 mmSelf-made
Silica gelSilica gel0.42–0.84 mm Anhui Liangchen Silicon Material Co., Ltd., China (mean particle pore size 8.0–10 nm)

2.2. Experimental Procedures

The graphical method was used to measure hydrate phase equilibrium conditions by keeping one of the three parameters of pressure (p), volume (V) and temperature (T) constant and changing one of the remaining parameters to form or decompose the hydrate. In this study, experiments were carried out using the graphical method by keeping volume constant. CO2 hydrate was formed and decomposed by cooling and heating the closed system (volume constant). Neither gas nor water was added to the system during each experimental cycle.
Dry glass beads were tightly packed into the vessel with de-ionized water to simulate the porous medium. Then the vessel was reconnected to the system, and CO2 was injected to discharge the water partly from the vessel to obtain residual water saturation. After the outlet valve was closed, CO2 was slowly injected continuously into the vessel to a designated pressure and the pressure was kept constant. The amounts of residual water and injected CO2 were all recorded. When the temperature was steady and there were no leaks, the temperature was decreased. Once a temperature increase appeared, we confirmed that CO2 hydrates were formed in the vessel due to the exothermic (hydrate formation) reaction. The formation process finished when there was no pressure change. Then the bath was warmed slowly to dissociate the CO2 hydrate. The pressure and temperature (p-T) conditions at the end of the hydrate decomposition was considered to be CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium conditions.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. CO2 Hydrate Formation and Dissociation Process

The p-T curve during CO2 hydrate formation and dissociation was dependent on the kinds of porous medium. Two cases of CO2 hydrate formation process were examined experimentally (only the vapor CO2, initial state, was discussed in this study). The p-T curve when hydrate formed in the BZ-01, BZ-02, BZ-04 is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in BZ-01, BZ-02 and BZ-04 glass beads with uniform pore size distribution.
Figure 2. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in BZ-01, BZ-02 and BZ-04 glass beads with uniform pore size distribution.
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In this case, the pore size of porous medium was approximately uniform, and there is only one hydrate formation stage, point B-E. After the bath temperature was decreased to the target value, which was usually more than 4 K below the estimated equilibrium temperature (A-B), the sample temperature rose suddenly later (B-C), which was caused by CO2 hydrate formation, and the pressure soon decreased (due to gas consumption as the gas was encaged in the hydrate lattice). Since the CO2 hydrate formation rate was low and there was a high temperature difference between the porous medium and bath, the temperature decreased slowly (C-D). When the CO2 hydrate formation process finished, the temperature decreased down to the initial setting value (D-E). Then the vessel was warmed gradually, when the p-T condition reached to F, the hydrate began to decompose, which caused a significant pressure increase (F-G). Point G was considered as the end of hydrate decomposition, which implied the equilibrium condition for this case. After intersecting with A-B, the p-T curve was back to point A along the temperature reduction process.
When CO2 hydrate formed in mixed glass beads and silica gel, the hydrate formation process can be divided into two phases, as shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4. This was caused by the different kinds of pore sizes present in these pores medium. Figure 3 showed the experiment carried out in mixed glass beads. The first formation stage (A-E) was the same as that discussed for Figure 2. In this stage, CO2 hydrate may form in bigger or smaller size pores, the conclusion could not be educed. A significant pressure drop and temperature rise caused by the formation of a big amount of hydrates were observed from B to C. Since the thermostat temperature was still low, the temperature will decrease to the set value due to the heat transfer (C-D). After that, the second formation stage occurred at E-F, where temperature also showed a dramatic increase. In this stage, hydrate formed in the other sized pores. In order to determine the first CO2 hydrate formation site, MRI was used in this work. The experimental procedure and results are discussed in the following paragraph.
Figure 3. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in mixed glass beads with non-uniform pore size distribution.
Figure 3. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in mixed glass beads with non-uniform pore size distribution.
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When silica gel was used in the experiments, there are two size pores in the sediment, the larger pore is inter-particle porosity and the smaller one is the inherent pore size of silica gel. The hydrate formation process was shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5, and the notes (A-G) in them correspond with each other. Once the pressure had dramatically decreased (B-C-D, in Figure 4), the hydrate began to nucleate and grow (the first formation stage), and the temperature showed a small increase during this time. Then the pressure remained constant and the temperature decreased further (D-E). As the temperature reached 273.6 K, the pressure decreased dramatically again (E-F), which meant the second formation stage of CO2 hydrate. The hydrate dissociation process was the same as that in Figure 2 and Figure 3. In this case, the first hydrate formation site was also uncertain. Usually, we proposed that the CO2 hydrate formed firstly in bigger pores, because the two formation stage occurred at 1.95 MPa and 275 K, and 1.75 MPa and 273 K, respectively, during the formation process. The sub-cool temperature of second stage was high than the first one, which was the same as the equilibrium condition of hydrate in different size pores. The smaller the pore size corresponds to the lower hydrate equilibrium temperature at the same pressure.
Figure 4. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in silica gel with non-uniform pore size distribution.
Figure 4. Typical p-T curves for CO2 hydrate formation in silica gel with non-uniform pore size distribution.
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Figure 5. Typical curves of pressure and temperature changes with time for CO2 hydrate in the mixed glass beads and silica gel: the broken line represents the value of pressure and the solid line indicates the temperature in the vessel.
Figure 5. Typical curves of pressure and temperature changes with time for CO2 hydrate in the mixed glass beads and silica gel: the broken line represents the value of pressure and the solid line indicates the temperature in the vessel.
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3.2. Determination of CO2 Hydrate Priority Formation Site Using MRI

MRI was used to test the hypothesis that CO2 hydrate formed firstly in the bigger pores. In order to get close to the study conditions, the different pore sizes were built up with BZ-01 and BZ-02 glass beads. During the experiments, BZ-01 glass beads were packed into the vessel tightly with de-ionized water firstly. The height of BZ-01 was about half of the vessel. Then a plastic slice was put into the vessel, which was used to divide the two glass kinds of beads. Then BZ-02 was packed into the vessel fully. The other procedure was similar with that discussed before, the main difference being that the vessel was put into the MRI to obtain images during the formation process. The schematic diagram of the MRI apparatus and the distribution of glass beads in the high pressure vessel were shown in Figure 6. The experimental apparatus consisted of a high-pressure vessel, MRI system, data acquisition system, high-pressure pumps, and a low-temperature cooling system. The vessel is made of polyimide which is a non-magnetic material, and its design pressure is 12 MPa. The effective size for packed glass beads is Ф15 × 200 mm. The MRI (Varian) was operated at a resonance of 400 MHz, 9.4 Tesla, to measure hydrogen. The high-precision thermostat bath (F25-ME, produced by Julabo Labortechnik GmbH, Germany) filled with fluorocarbon (FC-40, supplied by 3M Company, USA) was used to control temperature precisely. 1H-MRI produces images of hydrogen contained in liquids, but does not image hydrogen contained in solids such as ice crystals or the CO2 hydrates because of their much shorter transverse relaxation times. The detailed information for the MRI experiments was provided in previous work [27].
Figure 6. Schematic diagram of the MRI apparatus and the distribution of glass beads in the high pressure vessel.
Figure 6. Schematic diagram of the MRI apparatus and the distribution of glass beads in the high pressure vessel.
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Images were obtained by using a fast spin-echo sequence, and the field of view was set to 40 × 40× 40 mm. Once the water existed in the vessel as liquid, the water distribution zone was bright in images obtained by MRI. When the water converted to hydrate (solid phase), the MRI cannot detect the water signals and the image becomes dark, so the sites that changed to dark in the image mean the formation of hydrate. Considering the randomicity of induction time, the experiment was carried out twice, the results are shown in Figure 7, and all of them indicate the CO2 hydrate formed firstly in BZ-02 (the bigger glass beads) under these experimental conditions.
Figure 7. CO2 hydrate formation process in BZ-01 and BZ-02 using MRI: (a) the first cycle; (b) the second cycle.
Figure 7. CO2 hydrate formation process in BZ-01 and BZ-02 using MRI: (a) the first cycle; (b) the second cycle.
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3.3. Effects of Pores Size on CO2 Hydrate Equilibrium Condition

The presence of porous medium affected the phase equilibrium conditions of the CO2-water-hydrate system. As shown in Figure 8, the hydrate equilibrium curve displayed a movement in the p-T diagram with the presence of glass beads and silica gel. The experimental data of CO2 hydrate in bulk water obtained by Deaton et al., and the experimental data of CO2 hydrate in porous medium with nominal 5.0 nm radii obtained by Smith et al. were quoted to compare with our data. The comparison clearly showed that the presence of porous medium with small-diameter pores affected the CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions when compared with that in bulk water. In other words, the capillary inhibition of porous medium makes the CO2 hydrate equilibrium pressure increased at a certain temperature. The effects were mainly caused by the additional resistance effect of capillary surface tension, which leads to lower water activity and affects hydrate equilibrium condition [28]. It is important to address the discrepancy of activity between bulk water and pore-water for understanding the hydrate equilibrium pressure increase in silica gel pores and glass beads pores reported in these study. By accounting for the effects of the pore size distribution on additional forces, we can conclude that the effect of the capillary force is to lower the activity of water in the pores [29]. Once the pore size was obtained, the equilibrium pressure of CO2 hydrate in porous medium can be calculated. Based on the simulated theory, the increase of pore size caused the equilibrium pressure decrease as temperature was kept constant. When the pore size increased to some value, the effects of capillary force on hydrate equilibrium conditions becomes very small and can be ignored. The investigation of Turner et al. [23] indicated that the equilibrium temperature changes cannot be detected by the thermocouples in their equilibrium apparatus when the pores radius was larger than 600 Å.
Figure 8. Measurement of equilibrium condition for CO2 hydrate in different porous medium.
Figure 8. Measurement of equilibrium condition for CO2 hydrate in different porous medium.
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3.4. Prediction of Hydrate Equilibrium Condition by the Improved Model

The improved model of Song et al. [30] was used for predicting the equilibrium conditions for CO2 hydrates in porous medium, which was based on the traditional model of van der Waals and Plateeuw [31]. In this model, the mechanical equilibrium of force between the interfaces in hydrate-liquid-vapor system was considered. The solubility of CO2 gas was calculated using an empirical modification of Krichevsky–Kasarnovsky (K–K) equation [32]. This equation also includes the effect of pressure on the solubility. Having calculated the Xgas, Xw is calculated from:
XW = 1 − Xgas = 1 − fgas/[η3exp(pη1η2/RT)]
where η1, η2, η3 are equal to 0.3411, 22.33 and 899683.5 for CO2, which can be found in the study of Nasrifar et al. [32].
Figure 9 shows the comparison between the experimental data and the prediction results. Considering the complexity of the system, the predictions show an acceptable agreement with the experimental data. The absolute average deviation of predicted temperature (ΔAADT) and pressure (ΔAADP) are defined as follows [33]:
Δ AADT = ( 1 / N p ) j = 1 N p [ | T cal T exp | / T exp ] j × 100
Δ AADT = ( 1 / N p ) j = 1 N p [ | p cal p exp | / p exp ] j × 100
where Np denotes the number of data points.
Figure 9. Comparison of measured and calculated equilibrium condition data for CO2 hydrate in different porous media.
Figure 9. Comparison of measured and calculated equilibrium condition data for CO2 hydrate in different porous media.
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The error analysis of the predicted CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions for different porous media is shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Absolute average deviations of predicted CO2 hydrate formation conditions.
Table 2. Absolute average deviations of predicted CO2 hydrate formation conditions.
Porous mediumT range/KP range/MPaNpAADT (%)AADP (%)
BZ-01273.1–281.81.6–3.6100.144.10
BZ-02274.8–282.01.5–4.150.329.29
BZ-04 *276.2–282.81.8–4.050.215.36
BZ-04 **276.2–282.81.8–4.050.306.83
Mix glass beads *275.2–282.71.5–3.850.208.78
Mix glass beads **275.2–282.71.5–3.850.249.38
Silica gel *274.8–282.21.6–4.0100.205.82
Silica gel **274.8–282.21.6–4.0100.195.78
* comparison with calculation data of bulk water; ** comparison with calculation data of 1000 nm.
The overall ΔAADT for the improved model was 0.32%, respectively, and ΔAADP were usually less 9.38%. There is a significant deviation between the measurements and the modeling results under both high pressure and low pressure conditions. However, this is not surprising due to the complexity of the system. The result that can be concluded without doubt is that the improved model gave good predictions for the CO2 hydrate in porous media.

4. Conclusions

Experimental and calculated phase equilibrium conditions of carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrate in porous media were investigated in this study. When CO2 hydrate is formed in sediments with uniform pore size distribution, there is only one hydrate formation stage. When CO2 hydrate is formed in sediments with non-uniform pore size distribution, there are two hydrate formation stages, and the MRI apparatus results with spin-echo sequence showed that the hydrate formed firstly in BZ-02 glass beads with the same pressure and temperature. The smaller the pore size corresponds to the lower hydrate equilibrium temperature at the same pressure. This was mainly caused by the additional resistance effect of capillary surface tension. An improved model, based on the traditional model of van der Waals and Plateeuw, was used to predict CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions, and the predictions showed good agreement with our experimental measurements.

Acknowledgments

This project is financially supported by Key program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (50736001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51106018), the High-tech Research and Development Program of China (2006AA09A209-5), the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2009CB219507), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2011M500553), the Scientific Research Foundation for Doctors of Liaoning Province (20111026) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.

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