in natural gas treatment, the removal of co2 and h2s in acid gases is a critical concern. there are various purification technologies that can be used for the removal of acid gas impurities. absorption of acid gas into amines is one preferred method in gas industries. in the past, single amines was used, but recently in order to improve absorption performance, mixed amines with different solubi...

The flow of natural gas within a gas transmission network is studied with the aim to predict gas loads for very low temperatures. Two models for describing dependence between the maximal daily gas flow and the temperature on network exits are presented. A Brain-Cousens regression model is chosen from the class of parametric models. As an alternative, a semi-parametric logistic regression based ...

Lightweight concrete (LWC) is a kind of concrete that made of lightweight aggregates or gas bubbles. These aggregates could be natural or artificial, and expanded polystyrene (EPS) lightweight concrete is the most interesting lightweight concrete and has good mechanical properties. Bulk density of this kind of concrete is between 300-2000 kg/m3. In this paper flexural strength of EPS is modeled...

A new model for the design of the city gas distribution network has been presented. On the basis of mass flow rates and pressure balances a nonlinear system of equation is obtained. A method for solving the latter is outlined which gives accurate results. Also, this method, when compared to the other accessible ones, takes less computer time. Finally in this method the actual length of netw...

The main objectives of the Third Gas Directive (2009/73EC) approved by the European Union are: unbundling, creating an independent Transport Service Operator (TSO) and ensuring free access to the market. The separation of gas trading from transportation activities required new market rules and gas balancing. Thereby, the TSO's responsibilities are to maintain network pressures within acceptable...

This paper describes an application of Neural Networks for determining gas concentrations in a mixture of diierent gases. A matrix of quartz sensors with a polymer layer are used to detect the diierent gases. The information from the sensors are used as input to the network, which computes the gas concentrations. It was investigated how the quality of the estimation of the gas concentrations is...