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Effect of Nanobubble Evolution on Hydrate Process: A Review

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As a huge reserve for potential energy, natural gas hydrates (NGHs) are attracting increasingly extra attentions, and a series of researches on gas recovery from NGHs sediments have been carried out. But the slow formation and dissociation kinetics of NGHs is a major bottleneck in the applications of NGHs technology. Previous studies have shown that nanobubbles, which formed from melt hydrates, have significant promotion effects on dissociation and reformation dynamics of gas hydrates. Nanobubbles can persist for a long time in liquids, disaccording with the standpoint of classical thermodynamic theories, thus they can participate in the hydrate process. Based on different types of hydrate systems (gas + water, gas +water +inhibitors/promoters, gas + water + hydrophilic/hydrophobic surface), the effects of nanobubble evolution on nucleation, dissociation, reformation process and “memory effect” of gas hydrates are discussed in this paper. Researches on the nanobubbles in hydrate process are also summarized and prospected in this study.

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The work is supported by Innovation Development and Demonstration Project of Ocean Economy (Grant No. BHSF2017-19), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51776138), National Key Research and Development Plan (Grant No. 2018YFB0905103), and Tianjin Talent Development Special Support Program for High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team.

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    Yue Zhang, Li Zhao, Shuai Deng, Xianhua Nie & Yinan Liu

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-100 44, Sweden

    Ruikai Zhao

  3. International Cooperation Research Centre of Carbon Capture in Ultra-low Energy-consumption, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Yue Zhang, Li Zhao, Shuai Deng & Xianhua Nie

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Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Deng, S. et al. Effect of Nanobubble Evolution on Hydrate Process: A Review. J. Therm. Sci. 28, 948–961 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-019-1181-x

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