Dynamic Viscosity of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Hydrate Systems from Pure Water at High-Pressure Driving Forces

Abstract

The viscosity of methane and carbon dioxide hydrate systems were measured using a high-pressure rheometer up to 30 MPag. Where hydrate formation was not detected, the effect of temperature on the viscosity was one order of magnitude higher than the pressure effect on viscosity in most of the experimental pressure range (-0.048 mPa s/C at 1 MPag and 0.009 mPa s/MPag at 2C). The pressure effect on the viscosity of carbon dioxide systems where no hydrate formation was observed was up to one order of magnitude higher than that of the methane systems, due to carbon dioxide's higher solubility in water. Novel rheological phases diagrams were developed to further characterize the gas hydrate systems. Several systems with high driving forces for hydrate formation (2.07 MPag to 4.1 MPag) did not form gas hydrates. System limitations to the formation of hydrates were categorized as kinetic, mass diffusion, and/or heat of crystallization effects.

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