Development of Predictive Techniques for Estimating Liquid Water-Hydrate Equilibrium of Water-Hydrocarbon System.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Thermodynamics Volume 2009, Article ID 120481, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2009/120481 Review Article Development of Predictive Techniques for Estimating Liquid Water-Hydrate Equilibrium of Water-Hydrocarbon System Amir H. Mohammadi and Dominique Richon ´ ´ Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et des Equilibres entre Phases (TEP), Centre Energetique et Procedes (CEP), ´ ´ ´ ´ Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, 35 rue Saint-Honore, 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex, France ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Dominique Richon, dominique.richon@ensmp.fr Received 16 July 2008; Accepted 11 November 2008 Recommended by William Acree In this communication, we review recent studies by these authors for modeling the LW -H equilibrium. With the aim of estimating the solubility of pure hydrocarbon hydrate former in pure water in equilibrium with gas hydrates, a thermodynamic model is introduced based on equality of water fugacity in the liquid water and hydrate phases. The solid solution theory of Van der Waals-Platteeuw is employed for calculating the fugacity of water in the hydrate phase. The Henry’s law approach and the activity coefficient method are used to calculate the fugacities of the hydrocarbon hydrate former and water in the liquid water phase, respectively. The results of this model are successfully compared with some selected experimental data from the literature. A mathematical model based on feed-forward artificial neural network