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We describe a method for calculating free energies and chemical potentials for molecular models of gas hydrate systems using Monte Carlo simulations. The method has two components: (i) thermodynamic integration to obtain the water and guest molecule chemical potentials as functions of the hydrate occupancy; (ii) calculation of the free energy of the zero-occupancy hydrate system using thermodynamic integration from an Einstein crystal reference state. The approach is applicable to any classical molecular model of a hydrate. We illustrate the methodology with an application to the structure-I methane hydrate using two molecular models. Results from the method are also used to assess approximations in the van der Waals-Platteeuw theory and some of its extensions. It is shown that the success of the van der Waals-Platteeuw theory is in part due to a cancellation of the error arising from the assumption of a fixed configuration of water molecules in the hydrate framework with that arising from the neglect of methane-methane interactions.

Calculation of Free Energies and Chemical Potentials for Gas Hydrates Using Monte Carlo Simulations