Gas hydrates (crystalline inclusion compounds of water and small hydrocarbons) present a very real challenge to the petrochemical industry. In uninhibited systems gas hydrates can agglomerate to form plugs within the pipeline which have severe cost implications, both financial and potentially in safety terms. Traditionally thermodynamic inhibitors such as methanol have been used to prevent the formation of gas hydrates, however large amounts of methanol are required and there is little scope for recovery and reuse of the methanol, at great cost. So over the last two decades there has been much work on compounds which are classed as Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitors (KHIs) which kinetically inhibit the clathrate hydrate formation. This proposal seeks to understand the mechanism of action of one commonly used KHI, polyvinylcaprolactam by measurement of NIMROD data on aqueous solutions of the KHI.