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Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 2012, 2, 244-247 doi:10.4236/ampc.2012.24B062 Published Online December 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ampc) Developing a Mathematical Model for Hydrate Formation in a Spray Batch Reactor Mohammad Kazemeini , Farideh Freidoonian , Moslem Fattahi 1 2 1 1 Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 2 Email: kazemini@, freidoonianf@, moslem.fattahi@ Received 2012 ABSTRACT The formation of methane hydrate was undertaken in this research. The purpose of this work was to model the methane hydrate for- mation with a hydrate-water–methane system in a semi-batch reactor under steady–state, isothermal and isobaric conditions. Ob- tained results were validated with experiments conducted in a semi-batch spray reactor at low temperatures and high pressures. The investigated formation of gas hydrate from pure methane required physical constants of these materials which were determined through experimental data. The experiments hence, the theoretical calculations were conducted with pure methane and carried out in a spray reactor at 273.95K and 8705kPa to determine the actual amount of hydrate formation in such reactor. Ultimately; the com- parison of the results generated from the developed mathematical model with those of experimental data of others indicated a very satisfactory agreement obtained. Keywords: Hydrate Formation; Methane; Spray Reactor; Semi-batch; Modeling 1. Introduction The kinetic models of hydrate formation studied previously have been developed based upon stirred tank batch systems [6]. Such reactors included water at hydrate formation conditions being injected along with the gas for production of the hydrates. Natural gas hydrate formation condition