Oil and natural gas from deep shale formations are transforming the United States economy and its energy outlook. Back in 2005, the US Energy Information Administration published projections of United States natural gas supply that stressed the need to develop an import infrastructure (1): by 2025, imports would account for almost one-third of United States consumption. When we compare those fo...

the present sought to draw a comparison between model predictive control performance and two other controllers named simple pi and selective pi in controlling large-scale natural gas transport networks. a nonlinear dynamic model of representative gas pipeline was derived from pipeline governing rules and simulated in simulink® environment of matlab®. control schemes were designed to provide a s...

The tests were carried out with the spark timing adjusted to the maximum brake torquetiming in various equivalence ratios and engine speeds for gasoline and natural gas operations. In thiswork, the lower heating value of gasoline is about 13.6% higher than that of natural gas. Based on theexperimental results, the natural gas operation causes an increase of about 6.2% brake special fuelconsumpt...

design and synthesis of high-performance hydrogenstorage materials. Although the weakest X-ray scattering amplitude of hydrogen made it difficult to determine their structure, we have succeeded in the first direct observation of elusive H2 molecules adsorbed in the nano-channels of a metal-organic porous material by the in situ synchrotron powder diffraction experiment of gas adsorption and by ...

Nowadays one of the most important energy sources is natural gas. By depletion of oil reservoirs in the world, natural gas will emerge as the future energy source for human life. One of the major concerns of gas suppliers is being able to supply this source of energy the entire year. This concern intensifies during more consuming seasons of the year when the demand for natural gas increases, r...

The present sought to draw a comparison between Model Predictive Control performance and two other controllers named Simple PI and Selective PI in controlling large-scale natural gas transport networks. A nonlinear dynamic model of representative gas pipeline was derived from pipeline governing rules and simulated in SIMULINK® environment of MATLAB®. Control schemes were designed to provide a s...

In his theory of the catalytic surfaces Taylor3 suggested that the surfaces of metallic catalysts are composed of atoms in different states of lattice saturation. In many catalytic reactions, notably those sensitive to poisons, only a part of the surface atoms produce in adsorbed molecules such changes as will facilitate a possible reaction, although almost the whole surface is capable of adsor...

Time-resolved FT-IR spectra of carbon monoxide hydrogenation over alumina-supported ruthenium particles were recorded on the millisecond time scale at 700 K using pulsed release of CO and a continuous flow of H(2)-N(2) (ratio 0.067 or 0.15, 1 atm total pressure). Adsorbed carbon monoxide was detected along with gas phase products methane (3016 and 1306 cm(-1)), water (1900-1300 cm(-1)), and car...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Detection of adsorbed gas atoms on suspended single-walled carbon nanotube micro-balances ZENGHUI WANG, University of Washington, JIANG WEI, OSCAR VILCHES, DAVID COBDEN — Monolayers of gas atoms or molecules adsorbed on suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes offer the opportunity to study the phases and phase transitions of a un...