Energy Sources Part A-recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, Vol.36, No.6, 661-672, 2014
The Prediction of Hydrate Formation Rate in the Presence of Inhibitors
The main objective of this study was to present a novel approach to access more accurate hydrate formation rate predicting models based on the combination of flow-loop experimental data with learning power of artificial neural networks. Therefore, more than 2,300 data of C-1, C-3, i-C-4, and CO2 hydrate formation rate in the presence of two kinetic inhibitors (PVP and L-Tyrosine) and two inhibitor intensifying additives (PPO and PEO) was used. It was found that such models can be used as powerful tools, with total errors less than 2% for the developed models, in predicting hydrate formation rate in these cases.
Keywords:artificial neural network;gas hydrate formation;kinetic inhibitor;polymeric additives;rate model