Preventing hydrate agglomeration and transportation of hydrate slurry could be a new solution. The rheological behaviour of hydrate slurry has mainly been investigated in low water cut systems where water is the limiting factor. In high water cut systems, hydrate former components are the limiting factor and therefore the rheological behaviour of hydrate slurry has to be study in water¨Coil emulsion and this has a significant role on the viscosity of the system.
In this communication, a model to predict the viscosity of water¨Coil emulsion in the presence of hydrate particles in high water cut systems using the concept for a bimodal mixture is proposed. In the model, water¨Coil emulsion and hydrate particles in the liquid continuous phase are treated separately as unimodal models. In addition, a modification has been applied to the Mills (1985) model to calculate the viscosity of unimodal hydrate suspensions. The model has been validated using experimental data for high water cut systems (above 50 % ) in the presence of different anti-agglomerant (AA) concentrations. The predictions of the proposed model are in good agreement with experimental data for both oil-in-water and water-in-oil hydrate mixtures.