Investigation of hydrate formation by synthetic ternary gas mixture with cyclopentane(C5H10)

Cyclopentane (CP) is an alkane that combines with water to form hydrates. Here, we investigate the hydrate thermal dynamics and formation kinetics of a synthesized ternary gas mixture of CH 4 /CO 2 /N 2 with CP additives. The results indicated that CP shifts the phase equilibrium conditions of ternary gas mixture hydrates to higher temperature and lower pressure. Under a constant pressure, the largest temperature offset can be approximately 20 K. Meanwhile, the ternary gas mixture of CH 4 /CO 2 /N 2 formed structure II hydrates with added CP. The kinetics study indicated that the hydrate reaction started immediately when accompanied by stirring. The consumption of CO 2 gas was greater than that of CH 4 and N 2 . The ratio of the volume of CP to the volume of water had a considerable influence on the effective reaction time, CH 4 recovery factor (R CH4 ), and CO 2 split ratio (S CO2 ) under all experimental conditions. R CH4 and S CO2 were higher when the CP-to-water volume ratio was 0.308. The largest values of R CH4 and S CO2 were 3.098 and 0.908, respectively, when the CP-to-water volume ratio was 0.308 at 7.0 MPa and 280.1 K. These results favor the use of CP as an additive to separate CO 2 and purify CH 4 in gas mixtures.