Hydrophobic hydration affects growth of clathrate hydrate: insight from an NMR relaxometric and calorimetric study

Abstract

Water tightly bound to the kinetic inhibitors of tetrahydrofuran hydrate and natural gas hydrate has a relaxation time scale of sub-milliseconds. The amounts of such water are related to the inhibition time before rapid growth of the hydrate crystals and the hydrophobic hydration effect of the inhibitors.