Alternatives to the venting of natural gas: Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) gas capture

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Rob Judd ◽  
Martin Brown ◽  
Chiew Yen Law ◽  
You Van Lam ◽  
Ray Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Network Flows ◽  
Micropore Volume ◽  
Transmission Networks ◽  
Compressed Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Design Flexibility ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Pipeline Equipment ◽  
Infrastructure Failure

With growing concerns about environmental emissions, the natural gas industry is taking the lead in developing greater understanding of leakage and venting from natural gas systems. Emissions of natural gas from gas transmission networks originate from a number of sources including infrastructure failure, operational/process venting, and fugitive leakage from pipeline equipment. Process venting and maintenance operations often result in significant emissions to the atmosphere. National Grid Gas Transmission has developed a project with GL Noble Denton to investigate and develop technological options to reduce venting of natural gas. One technology developed for gas capture from venting operations is ANG. Here, a storage vessel is filled with a suitable adsorbent material. Activated carbon's large micropore volume and its ability to form densely packed beds make it a suitable adsorbent. When filled to the same pressure, the energy density will be greater than that of the same vessel without the adsorbent. At 35 bar pipeline pressure, ANG can store about half the amount of compressed natural gas at 200 barg. The operation of gas transmission network compressor sites means they vent gas in an unpredictable manner, responding to overall system demands and network flows. Techno-economic analysis has shown the lowest carbon footprint and best economic viability is by using ANG technology. Captured gas can be reused in a variety of downstream applications. Other benefits of ANG include safer, lower operating pressures compared with compressed natural gas (CNG), reduced environmental impact, design flexibility, and lower capital and operating costs.

Finding Fault with the Nexus Pipeline? Agency Capture and the Public Good

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Kear
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Environmental Impact Statement ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fracturing Process ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Regulatory Commission

Natural gas is an increasingly vital U.S. energy source that is presently being tapped and transported across state and international boundaries. Controversy engulfs natural gas, from the hydraulic fracturing process used to liberate it from massive, gas-laden Appalachian shale deposits, to the permitting and construction of new interstate pipelines bringing it to markets. This case explores the controversy flowing from the proposed 256-mile-long interstate Nexus pipeline transecting northern Ohio, southeastern Michigan and terminating at the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada. As the lead agency regulating and permitting interstate pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is also tasked with mitigating environmental risks through the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act's Environmental Impact Statement process. Pipeline opponents assert that a captured federal agency ignores public and scientific input, inadequately addresses public health and safety risks, preempts local control, and wields eminent domain powers at the expense of landowners, cities, and everyone in the pipeline path. Proponents counter that pipelines are the safest means of transporting domestically abundant, cleaner burning, affordable gas to markets that will boost local and regional economies and serve the public good. Debates over what constitutes the public good are only one set in a long list of contentious issues including pipeline safety, proposed routes, property rights, public voice, and questions over the scientific and democratic validity of the Environmental Impact Statement process. The Nexus pipeline provides a sobering example that simple energy policy solutions and compromise are elusive—effectively fueling greater conflict as the natural gas industry booms.

Research on Industrial Integration between Electricity Industry and Natural Gas Industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4304-4307
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhe Meng
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Electricity Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Industry Regulation ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Regulation Reform

Industrial integration is the trend of the modern industrial economy. It is the result of the enterprises from competition to cooperation. Industry boundaries become blurring. And industries begin to integrate. With technological innovation, business integration, market integration, as well as industry regulation reform, electricity industry and natural gas industry is towards integration. The barriers between electricity industry and natural gas industry has been eliminated through knowledge sharing, mergers and acquisitions, market reform and regulation reform in developed countries. The energy industry in China will also be integration to improve national competitiveness.

Analysis of the Application of Blockchain Technology in the Field of Supply Chain Finance in the Natural Gas Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Zhang ◽  
Fuping Wang ◽  
Yongsong Pu ◽  
Pu Li ◽  
Yingkai Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Supply Chain Finance ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Financial Framework ◽  
Gas Supply

Abstract After China's supply chain finance business has gradually matured in the consumer finance field, it has begun to extend to the industrial finance field. As a branch of industrial finance, the natural gas industry supply chain finance business has gradually developed, and the number of participants has gradually increased. The article mainly introduces the development status of natural gas supply chain financial services in China. Research has found that there are still many problems in the current industry development, such as the inability of effective collaboration among participants, and the inability to unify logistics, information flow, capital flow and energy flow in the industry. On this basis, the article studies the methods of blockchain technology to solve corresponding problems, and proposes the application ideas of blockchain technology in the field of natural gas supply chain finance, hoping to promote development by constructing a business model business architecture and technical architecture, This model can produce significant economic and social benefits, has a high theoretical feasibility, but there is no concrete examples at present. Finally, suggestions are made in five aspects, including strengthening the design of top-level systems, incorporating energy flows into the supply chain financial framework system, creating an open innovation atmosphere, enhancing technological progress, strengthening core corporate social responsibility, and promoting core corporate organizational innovation.

Model for the development of competition in the natural gas industry in Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique de Mello Sant Ana ◽  
Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi ◽  
Sérgio Valdir Bajay
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Natural Gas Industry
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