Crystal growth with interfacial agitation

Analysis of hydrate formation data can be obtained from a tabulation of gas consumption during hydrate formation as a function of time measured in stirred reactors. Formation data thus require either a table (or a plot) of individual experiments. Such a prospect is not viable in this monograph, since the literature hydrate formation data contain a large number of experiments with questionable transferability between apparatuses. Instead an overview of experimental conditions is presented below. The reader is referred to theses and subsequent publications of Englezos (1986), Dholobhai (1989), Skovborg (1993), Bansal (1994), and Turner (2005) for typical data. 

Also in Bishnoi s laboratory, Dholabhai et al. (1993) studied the effect of electrolytes on methane hydrate formation kinetics. They found that after the equilibrium fugacity (or driving force) is adjusted for the presence of salt, hydrate growth kinetics are quantitatively described by the pure water kinetics model of Englezos. 

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