Review of gas hydrate anti-agglomerant screening techniques

DC Salmin, D Estanga, CA Koh - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Gas hydrates present a major flow assurance challenge due to the relatively fast timescales
at which they can form, agglomerate, and plug a subsea flowline, resulting in loss of …

Hydrate risk management in gas transmission lines

ZM Aman - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gas hydrates are ice-like solids that can readily form and restrict flow in high-pressure
natural gas transmission lines. The use of antifreeze thermodynamic inhibitors dominated …

A transient simulation model to predict hydrate formation rate in both oil-and water-dominated systems in pipelines

Y Wang, CA Koh, JA Dapena, LE Zerpa - Journal of Natural Gas Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The high pressure and low temperature operational conditions of deepwater subsea
facilities often result in the formation of gas hydrates, which is one of the most challenging …

CH4/C2H6 gas hydrate interparticle interactions in the presence of anti-agglomerants and salinity

S Hu, CA Koh - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Gas hydrate interparticle cohesive forces are essential to evaluate hydrate interfacial
properties and determine the hydrate particle agglomeration behavior. In this study, a …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation to elucidate the hydrate Anti-Agglomerating characteristics of 2-Butoxyethanol

N Khan, A Kumar, ML Johns, EF May… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
To alleviate the severity of hydrate formation in subsea oil and gas pipelines, the injection of
anti-agglomerants (AAs) is one of the promising approaches. In this work, we investigate the …

Correlating antiagglomerant performance with gas hydrate cohesion

A Phan, M Stamatakis, CA Koh… - ACS applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although inhibiting hydrate formation in hydrocarbon–water systems is paramount in
preventing pipe blockage in hydrocarbon transport systems, the molecular mechanisms …

Hydrate formation management simulations with anti-agglomerants and thermodynamic inhibitors in a subsea tieback

Y Wang, CA Koh, J White, Z Patel, LE Zerpa - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid formation of gas hydrates in subsea tiebacks is regarded as one of the most
challenging problems in flow assurance. Due to economic reasons, the hydrate controlling …

Digital twin for operations-present applications and future digital thread

M Podskarbi, DJ Knezevic - Offshore Technology Conference, 2020 - onepetro.org
We present a structural digital twin system based on component-based parametric reduced
order modeling using Reduced Basis Finite Element Analysis (RB-FEA) framework. This …

Changing the hydrate management guidelines: From benchtop experiments to CSMHyK field simulations

Y Wang, S Subramanian, D Estanga, AAA Majid… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High-pressure and low-temperature conditions during subsea pipeline transportation favor
the formation of gas hydrates and may create challenging flow assurance problems. Once …

Hydrate bedding modeling in oil-dominated systems

Y Wang, BC Hutchinson, MA Pickarts, DC Salmin… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid formation of gas hydrates is one of the major concerns in offshore oil and gas
transportation due to the possible plugging of unmanaged hydrate agglomerates. Within the …