Gas hydrate formation in natural gas and NGL systems can block pipelines, equipment, and instruments, restricting or interrupting flow leading to safety hazards to production/transportation systems and to substantial economic risks. The amount of hydrate inhibitor to be injected not only must be sufficient to prevent freezing of the inhibitor water phase, but also must be sufficient to provide for the equilibrium vapor phase content of the inhibitor. The vapor pressure of methanol must be high enough so that significant quantities will vaporize. Therefore to estimate methanol vaporization losses, it is necessary to develop a new predictive tool. In this work, a simple correlation, which is a mathematically compact and reasonably accurate equation containing few tuned coefficients, is presented here for the prediction of methanol vaporization loss and vapor pressures of aqueous methanol solutions as a function of temperature and methanol mass fraction in aqueous solutions using a novel and theoretically meaningful Arrhenius-type asymptotic exponential function and Vandermonde matrix. The proposed correlation predicts the vapor pressures of aqueous methanol solutions for temperatures up to 100 C and methanol vaporization loss for temperature between -16 and 16 'C. Estimations are found to be in excellent agreement with the reliable data in the literature where the average absolute deviation from data is less than 1.5%. The tool developed in this study can be of immense practical value for the engineers and scientists to have a quick check on the methanol vaporization loss and vapor pressures of aqueous methanol solutions at various conditions without opting for any experimental measurements. In particular, chemical and process engineers would find the approach to be user-friendly with transparent calculations involving no complex expressions.


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    Title :

    Prediction of methanol loss in vapor phase during gas hydrate inhibition using Arrhenius-type functions


    Additional title:

    Vorhersage des Methanolverlusts in die Dampfphase bei der Gashydrathinhibition unter Verwendung von Arrheniusgleichungen


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 21 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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