Investigation of the Flow Characteristics of Methane Hydrate Slurries with Low Flow Rates

Gas hydrate blockage in pipelines during offshore production becomes a major problem with increasing water depth. In this work, a series of experiments on gas hydrate formation in a flow loop was performed with low flow rates of 0.33, 0.66, and 0.88 m/s; the effects of the initial subcooling, flow r...

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Published in:	Energies
Main Authors:	Tang Cuiping, Xiangyong Zhao, Dongliang Li, Yong Tai He, Xiaodong Shen, Deqing Liang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
Subjects:	Offshore Engineering and Technologies Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Drilling and Well Engineering methane hydrate gas hydrate blockage hydrate slurry low flow rate hydrate formation kinetics subcooling hydrate morphology hydrate agglomeration gas-liquid two-phase flow offshore gas production pipeline transport
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/1/145/pdf?version=1485156669 https://doi.org/10.3390/en10010145
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