Journal of Thermal Science.
2019, 28(5):
948-961.
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. 天然气水合物(NGHs)因作为一种储量巨大的矿藏资源而备受瞩目。围绕如何从NGHs沉积层中开采天然气,国内外学者展开了一系列理论与实验研究,但NGHS生成和分解的缓慢动力学过程是现有开采技术的主要瓶颈。前人的研究结果表明,水合物分解过程中产生的纳米气泡对天然气水合物的分解和再生成过程具有明显的促进作用。除此之外,不同于经典热力学理论的描述,纳米气泡可以在液体中长时间的稳定存在,由此,纳米气泡可以参与水合物后续的多个过程。本研究立足于不同类型的水合物系统(气体+水,气体+水+抑制剂/促进剂,气体+水+亲水/疏水表面),详细讨论了纳米气泡演化对气体水合物成核、分解和再生成过程的影响,并讨论了纳米气泡演化与气体水合物“记忆效应”的关系,对水合物体系内纳米气泡的应用及研究进行了总结和展望。