Speech given at Session 3: Challenge Facing Resource Development. Ms. King focused on some of the uncertainties, changes, risks, and opportunities from the viewpoint of the private financial sector, again with regard to energy. She also highlighted some of the uncertainties in the specific sectors. And there are big differences between electricity and natural gas, on one hand, and oil, on the o...

Combustion in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine is controlled auto ignition of well-mixed fuel, air and residual gas. Since onset of HCCI combustion depends on the auto ignition of fuel/air mixture, there is no direct control on the start of combustion process. Therefore, HCCI combustion becomes unstable rather easily especially at lower and higher engine load. Charge strati...

The substitution of natural gas by a renewable equivalent is an interesting option to reduce the use of fossil fuels and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, as well as from the point of view of security of supply. The renewable alternative for natural gas is the so-called green natural gas, i.e. gaseous energy carriers produced from biomass comprising both biogas and Synthetic Natural Ga...

BACKGROUND Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can provide a range of benefits to users with regards to efficiency, reliability, costs and environmental impact. Furthermore, increasing the amount of electricity generated by CHP systems in the United States has been identified as having significant potential for impressive economic and environmental outcomes on a national scale. Given the bene...

For transportation of natural gas (NG), pipeline transportation is often used. However, when gas volumes are moderate, and/or transportation distances are large, the capital and operating costs for pipeline transport become prohibitive. In such cases, transport of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in tankers is often the preferred choice for bringing the gas to the market. In the liquefaction process...

Introduction. Typically, investment in petroleum exploration and development yields a joint product: reserves of oil and natural gas. The reserve additions are separable, but the expenditures generating reserve additions cannot be neatly partitioned between the two hydrocarbon sources.

Issue: Drying lumber in the Western U.S. consumes over 60 million GJ of fuel. Over half of this is natural gas and the balance is from wood. Large quantities are also dried in the southern U.S. Dramatically reducing energy use would require major changes in the drying process; however, small changes in the way a mill is operated can have a significant impact on the energy use. Environmental com...

Formation of natural gas hydrate is a serious problem in the gas and oil industry because it can plug pipelines and destroy the equipment. This study aimes to evaluate the concentration effect of glycol ethers on their synergism with a commercial kinetic hydrate inhibitor (Luvicap 55W) in sweet natural gas-water systems at a constant temperature of 4 oC and pressure of 95 bar. Hydrate formation...