Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface
Abstract
We develop a continuum-scale phase-field model to study gas-liquid-hydrate systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. We design a Gibbs free energy functional for methane-water mixtures that recovers the isobaric temperature-composition phase diagram under thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. The proposed free energy is incorporated into a phase-field model to study the dynamics of hydrate formation on a gas-liquid interface. We elucidate the role of initial aqueous concentration in determining the direction of hydrate growth at the interface, in agreement with experimental observations. Our model also reveals two stages of hydrate growth at an interface—controlled by a crossover in how methane is supplied from the gas and liquid phases—which could explain the persistence of gas conduits in hydratebearing sediments and other nonequilibrium phenomena commonly observed in natural methane hydrate systems.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Technical Univ. of Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
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- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1505593
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1430772
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0013999; SC0018357; FE0013999 and DE-SC0018357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
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Fu, Xiaojing, Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis, and Juanes, Ruben. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.120.144501.
Fu, Xiaojing, Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis, & Juanes, Ruben. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.144501
Fu, Xiaojing, Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis, and Juanes, Ruben. Mon .
"Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.144501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505593.
@article{osti_1505593,
title = {Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface},
author = {Fu, Xiaojing and Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis and Juanes, Ruben},
abstractNote = {We develop a continuum-scale phase-field model to study gas-liquid-hydrate systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. We design a Gibbs free energy functional for methane-water mixtures that recovers the isobaric temperature-composition phase diagram under thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. The proposed free energy is incorporated into a phase-field model to study the dynamics of hydrate formation on a gas-liquid interface. We elucidate the role of initial aqueous concentration in determining the direction of hydrate growth at the interface, in agreement with experimental observations. Our model also reveals two stages of hydrate growth at an interface—controlled by a crossover in how methane is supplied from the gas and liquid phases—which could explain the persistence of gas conduits in hydratebearing sediments and other nonequilibrium phenomena commonly observed in natural methane hydrate systems.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.120.144501},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 14,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {4}
}
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FIG. 1: (a) Burning of solid (white) methane hydrate (source: USGS). (b) Isobaric methane-water T–χ phase diagram adapted from [5,6].
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