State-of-the-Art for Hydrate Growth

The state-of-the-art for hydrate growth may be summarized with only a few statements  

Hydrate growth data and modeling are more tenable than are nucleation phenomena. In particular, the growth data (after nucleation) appears to be linear for as much as 100 min in Englezos data. 

Any existing growth model has been shown to fit only the data on which its parameters were based. Most data were obtained in a high-pressure reactor and may not apply to formation rates in a pipeline. Limited flow loop data are available. 

Most of the data on which the models are based are obtained for si, while most pipeline hydrates are sll due to the propane (and higher) constituents of natural hydrocarbons. 

Heat and mass transfer effects can be more significant than intrinsic kinetics in multiphase systems. 

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