As a new form of energy with substantial potential, natural gas hydrate will play a crucial strategic role in the future due to its vast reserves and broad industrial application prospects. To better comprehend the nu...
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As a new form of energy with substantial potential, natural gas hydrate will play a crucial strategic role in the future due to its vast reserves and broad industrial application prospects. To better comprehend the nucleation and growth mechanism of clathrate hydrate, an enhanced thermodynamic model was proposed based on the wall roughness model and nucleation theory. In general, we discovered that the nucleation of hydrate on a smooth wall surface conforms to the conclusion of classical nucleation theory. However, curvature and surface roughness are frequently characterized by hydrophilicity's inhibition of hydrate and hydrophobicity's enhancement. The specific situation is more complex and requires specific analysis and discussion. Nonetheless, this also explains the uneven distribution of hydrate nucleation induction time. Our research reveals a fundamental method for designing or manipulating the heterogeneous nucleation of hydrates. We foresee promising applications in hydrate-related technologies based on the fractal structure of the substrate's surface.
Natural gas hydrate nucleation is a complex physical and chemical process that is not well understood presently. In this article, an improved thermodynamic model is proposed to analyze the effects of surface curvature...
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Natural gas hydrate nucleation is a complex physical and chemical process that is not well understood presently. In this article, an improved thermodynamic model is proposed to analyze the effects of surface curvature and wettability on methane hydrate nucleation for the first time. The results indicate that methane hydrate nucleation is more difficult on hydrophilic curvature surfaces under the same conditions, with a larger critical nucleation radius and required energy barrier than on hydrophobic surfaces. Furthermore, a convex surface is more favorable for forming methane hydrate under the same conditions than a concave surface. The model's results are critical in elucidating the microscopic mechanism of methane hydrate nucleation and providing a theoretical foundation for developing technologies for strengthening and inhibiting hydrate formation.
In this paper, effects of non-uniform temperature in the ice nucleus on heterogeneous ice nucleation are investigated via two approaches: changes in gibbs free energy function and availability function. Analytical exp...
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In this paper, effects of non-uniform temperature in the ice nucleus on heterogeneous ice nucleation are investigated via two approaches: changes in gibbs free energy function and availability function. Analytical expressions for non-uniform temperature distribution inside the ice nucleus and heat transfer from the nucleus to the supercooled wall are obtained in terms of the contact angle and supercooled wall temperature based on the consideration that thermal conductivity resistance of the nucleus, interfacial resistance and thermal resistance due to curvature of ice/water interface are in series. With non-uniform temperature in the nucleus taken into consideration, it is found that the critical radius of the ice nucleation obtained based on availability analysis is slightly larger than those obtained based on gibbs free energy analysis. Both heterogeneous critical radius and nucleation energy barrier are found to be increasing with surface contact angle. On an ice-phobic surface at small supercooling degrees, the critical radius and the nucleation energy barrier obtained with or without heat transfer taken into consideration differ greatly with the increase of the contact angle. However, at large supercooling degrees and small contact angles, differences in the critical radius and nucleation energy barrier by availability analysis are negligible with or without heat transfer effects. Thus, heterogeneous nucleation behaviors on ice-philic surfaces can be estimated based on the assumption of uniform temperature in the ice nucleus when degree of wall supercooling is large. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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