Fig. 8b shows the rate of slurry vi

Fig. 8b shows the rate of slurry viscosity at different water cuts for 3wt% wax content. It demonstrates that the influence of water cut on therate of slurry viscosity is significant. There exists the second growthstage for all water cuts used in this work. Particularly, the increasingtendency of the viscosity rate at 30% water cut resembles that for 25%water cut with 3 wt% wax content. For the condition of 20% water cutwith 3 wt% wax content, the rate of slurry viscosity increases again to0.11 Pa at 0.77 h, after which it is reduced to the value around 0 Pa. Ascan be concluded from Fig. 8, the growth rate of CP hydrates is higherfor higher water cut and lower wax content. For the system with lower water cut and higher wax content, more wax crystals will adsorb on thesurface of limited water droplets, and less interfacial area between waterand the continuous phase can be obtained during the mass transferprocess of guest molecules.