Energy plays a fundamental role in both manufacturing and services, and natural gas is rapidly becoming a key energy source worldwide. Facilitating this emergence is an expanding network of ocean-going vessels that enable the matching of natural gas supply and demand on a global scale. This is achieved through the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for eventual regasification at its ...

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is being developed as a heavy vehicle fuel. The reason for developing LNG is to reduce our dependency on imported oil by eliminating technical and costs barriers associated with its usage. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has a program, currently in its third year, to develop and advance costeffective technologies for operating and refueling natural gas–fueled hea...

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Part 1— Field Studies The Gas Technology Institute with support from Illinois Clean Coal Institute and cooperation of the Illinois State Geological Survey designed and implemented a comprehensive research project aimed at determining the viability of seismic techniques for site selection and monitoring of carbon dioxide sequestration in Illinois coals. Editor’s note...

hydrates are crystalline compounds similar to ice, with guest molecules like methane and ethane trapped inside cavities or cages formed by the hydrogen bounded framework of water molecules. these solid compounds give rise to problems in the natural gas oil industry because they can plug pipelines and process equipments. low dosage hydrate inhibitors are a recently developed hydrate control tech...

Mathematical programming has been widely applied for the planning of natural gas production infrastructure development. As the production infrastructure involves large investments and is expected to remain in operation over several decades, the factors that will impact the gas production but cannot be foreseen before the development of the infrastructure need to be taken into account in the pla...

• Research, develop and demonstrate the Ion Transport Membrane (ITM) Syngas ceramic membrane reactor system for the low-cost conversion of natural gas to hydrogen and synthesis gas. • Scale-up the ITM Syngas reactor technology through three levels of pilot-scale testing and precommercial demonstration. • Obtain the technical, engineering, operating and economic data necessary for the final step...

Gas hydrates, low molecular weight gas molecules trapped in water-ice “cages,” have gained international attention over the last few years for energy, safety, and environmental reasons. In 2000 CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology, International Council for Science) established a task group for Data on Natural Gas Hydrates, which aims to develop a comprehensive information syste...

A large amount of wind power has to be curtailed due to the inflexibility of the combined heat and power (CHP) system in the heating season in northern China. The power-to-gas (P2G) technology, which uses electricity to produce hydrogen or synthetic natural gas, has become a promising energy conversion option for the utilization of surplus power energy. In this paper, an integrated natural gas,...