PhD thesis in Petroleum engineering
The thesis is based on the following articles, which are available in the file:
PAPER 1: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, Effect of Ultralow Concentration of
Methanol on Methane Hydrate Formation, Energy & Fuels, 24, 752-757,
(2010) DOI: 10.1021/ef9009422
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef9009422
PAPER 2: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, Multicomponent Gas Hydrate Nu-
cleation: The Effect of the Cooling Rate and Composition, Energy & Fuels,
25, 42-51, (2011) DOI: 10.1021/ef1011879
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef1011879
PAPER 3: Hailu K. Abay, Thor M. Svartaas and Ke Wei, Effect of Gas Composition
on sII Hydrate Growth Kinetics, Energy & Fuels, 25, 1335-1341, (2011) DOI: 10.1021/ef101698g
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef101698g
PAPER 4: Hailu K. Abay and Thor M. Svartaas, On the Kinetics of Methane Hydrate
Formation: A Time-dependent Kinetic Rate Model, Proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
July 17-21, 2011. http://www.icgh.org/
PAPER 5: Hailu K. Abay, Eirik Hovring and Thor M. Svartaas, Does PVCap Promote
Nucleation of Structure II Hydrate? Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 17-21,
2011. http://www.icgh.org/
PAPER 6: Hailu K. Abay, Jonas Hovland and Thor M. Svartaas, The Effect of PV-
Cap on Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth, Proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
July 17-21, 2011. http://www.icgh.org/