Gas Infrastructure Articles
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Landfill Gas to Pipeline
Location: Angleton, TX Online Date: 2012 Element Markets is partnering with Waste Connections, one of the largest waste companies in the U.S., to develop a large biomethane project at the company’s Seabreeze Landfill in Angleton, Texas. The project, which is slated to come online in 2012, will produce more than 28 million MMBTUs of gas during its operational life, enough to power more than ...
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Biomethane Marketing
Element Markets is handling all aspects of biomethane marketing for one of the largest landfill gas-to-pipeline projects in the United States. We are selling the client’s product into one of the premier biomethane markets, allowing them to realize substantial premiums over the price of regular natural gas, which lacks the environmental credits associated with biomethane. Our optimization of ...
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Landfills types of technologies for converting LFG into Energy
A number of factors, including the availability of an energy market, project costs, potential revenue sources, and other technical considerations, can determine which technologies are most appropriate for a particular landfill gas-to-energy (LFGE) project. Technologies for converting LFG into energy include the following. Electricity Generation Approximately 70 percent of the LFGE projects ...
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Leak in Soda Machines
Carbon dioxide, also known as CO2, is a very well known gas type but not everyone knows how deadly it is. Most people know it as a gas that humans exhale but commercially, it is manufactured and shipped as a liquefied compressed gas or is used as dry ice in its solid form. A common use of CO2 gas is in soda fountain machines to carbonate soft drinks by pressurizing the CO2 gas into the liquid ...
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Energy Security
Renewable & Clean Energy Solutions to Secure Energy Independence from Foreign Oil. FOREIGN OIL: As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring. At current oil prices, we will send $700 billion dollars out of the country this year alone — that’s four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. Projected over the next 10 ...
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More than meets the eye: the social cost of carbon in U.S. climate policy, in plain English
Presidents since Ronald Reagan have required that significant rules issued by the federal government be accompanied through intra-governmental review by a cost-benefit analysis. In addition, the Obama administration (like the Bush administration before it) has imposed a requirement to assess climate regulation through the lens of a figure (or range of figures) known as the “social cost of ...
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The world gas market in 2030 – development scenarios using the World Gas Model
We discuss potential developments of the world natural gas industry through 2030. We use the World Gas Model (WGM), a multi-period strategic representation of the global natural gas sector, between 2005 and 2030. We specify a 'base case' and then analyse the sensitivity of the world natural gas system with scenarios, including various supply scenarios (e.g., emergence of large volumes of ...
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Landfill Gas to Renewable Natural Gas Project Goes Ahead in Michigan
Greenlane Biogas, a subsidiary of the Flotech Group of companies (founded in 1986), is pleased to confirm that it recently has received an order to build two 'Totara+' landfill gas upgrading systems to process 3200 scfm (approximately 5150 Nm3/hr) of gas to be injected into a local natural gas pipeline near Detroit Michigan. Greenlane Biogas, a developer and supplier of proprietary water ...
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Bio-SNG featured in energy world in February 2011
The use of bio-fuels for heating and lighting pre-dates the use of fossil fuels by thousands of years. However, unlike with fossil fuels, a systematic knowledge of the challenges posed by solid bio-fuels is not as widely understood, a fact attributable to the exponential acceleration of fossil fuel usage as global demand increased during the industrial revolution. In the wake of this, producers ...
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SGBI opinion article: shale gas
Government perceives electric vehicles to be a panacea that will solve problems surrounding air quality and CO2 emissions simultaneously. The EV has two main selling points: reduced CO2 emissions and high efficiency. However, these are only valid at a superficial level and the argument disintegrates under any level of scrutiny. In terms of CO2 emissions, EVs replace ‘average’ cars to ...
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Opening markets for CSP – the industrial heat application
Heavy industry can be a viable secondary market today for CSP producers, but questions remain on whether start-up costs are justifiable for industrial users, and how reliable CSP can be for processes that can't pace production by the sun. Solar thermal heat implies steam, and industries that need steam include refining, food processing, wood-working, desalination and chemicals, among others. ...
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Several waste gas streams: Highly contaminated oxygen-free waste gas, and medium waste gas stream - Case Study
Example: Chemical industry Similar tasks: Petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries A producer of synthetic rubber creates a medium waste gas as well as a highly contaminated oxygen-free waste gas which contains primarily low hydrocarbons. The main waste gas stream is purified in a regenerative thermal oxidiser (RTO), while the oxygen-free waste gas passes through the CTP burner in the RTO ...
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IEA commends Italy on progress in energy policy but cautions that further long-term challenges remain
“Significant recent changes in Italy’s energy legislation provide the country with new opportunities to build on past successes”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Rome at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Italy 2009 Review. He highlighted that over the past five years, the Italian government had gone a long way towards ...
By IEA
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Agent-based modelling of energy infrastructure transitions
Shaping energy transitions not only requires technical system innovation and redesign but also new policies, regulations, Research and Development (R&D) and investment strategies – a transition assemblage. Transition management thus equates to designing and implementing such an assemblage. Agent-Based Models (ABMs) may be used for ex-ante assessment of transition assemblage alternatives. To help ...
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Modelling competition between natural gas pipeline projects to China
China's natural gas demand is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. Therefore the potential of several pipelines from Russia and other CIS countries to China has been investigated. A two-step game-theoretic procedure for the problem formulation is proposed to assess the projects' economic perspectives. In the instantaneous supply game the players determine optimal supply levels to the ...
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Biomass gassing as an effective source of energy
Type HOFGAS®- IFM4c 4000/2100 Performance 2100 Nm3/h / 3500 kW Location Limoges (FR) Situation A prestigious gassing plant for biomass is being built in the heart of France. The owner is promising himself a significantly higher level of efficiency through biomass gassing instead of biomass incineration. The plant is operated by feeding it with sawdust and wood chippings. ...
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Forces attracted to fuel savings
Magnatech Fuel Conditioning Limited have recently completed a contract to install their very powerful magnetic fuel conditioning units to all structural gas and oil burning equipment across five MOD bases in England. This was after research concluded that Magnatech was the most cost effective provider of this type of application.The MOD have used this technology previously, when a number of bases ...
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Run cars on green electricity, not natural gas
With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over US dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security. Combined with the growing understanding that carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels are driving global climate change, the debate is now focused on ...
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Will Obama come through on his Environmental Election pledges?
Barack Obama’s presidency has the potential to bring genuine change to the west. Whether it’s racial equality or climate change and energy sources, many Americans are optimistic about the future.Soon we will find out whether Barack meant it when he said that whatever the financial circumstances, he would strive to equip America with home-grown, green sources of energy as his number one ...
By LexisNexis
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A Finite Element Method analysis and optimisation of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell with interdigitated flow field design
Interdigitated polymer electrolyte fuel cells are particularly attractive due to the enhanced transport rates and benefits with respect to electrode flooding. A 2D isothermal model is used to simulate the outlining processes that occur at the elemental fuel cell level. A Finite Element Method analysis is conducted to simulate the flow and current density fields for different gas channel ...
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