Technical Note: Total Dissolved Gas Pressure (TDGP) Sensing in the Laboratory

Effects of unconventional gas development on groundwater: a call for total dissolved gas pressure field measurements.

One of the primary public concerns with new development of shale and other unconventional gas resources is potential contamination of shallow groundwater with natural gas (largely methane). Natural gas contamination of shallow groundwater can result from leaky gas production wellbores (e.g. Stein et al., 2003; Van Stempvoort et al., 2005). However, there is also concern that hydraulic fracturin...

Prediction of Gas Hydrate Formation using HYSYS Software (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Gas hydrates attracted worldwide attention due to their potential as huge energy resource in the recent decades. Effective parameters which influence the formation of hydrates are high pressure, low temperature and water presence. HYSYS software is one of the major simulators which are widely used in the chemical and thermodynamic processes. This research was conducted to simulate gas hydrate f...

Design and Analysis of Pressure Vessel Subjected to Pressure-temperature Variation (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Pressure vessel is a container used to store fluids under pressure and temperature. The fluids can be air, water, chemicals, fuel, gases etc. are most commonly used in food and chemical industries, oil refineries and so on. Pressure vessel is subjected to thermal and structural loads for power plant applications. Since the pressure vessel are subjected to both structural and thermal loads stres...

On Suction Gas Heating in Hermetic Compressors (A Technical Note)

Effect of CO2 Partial Pressure on the Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Zinc Carbonate Hydroxide (TECHNICAL NOTE)

In this work, the effect of carbon dioxide partial pressure on the calcination kinetics of high purity zinc carbonate hydroxide has been studied. Non-isothermal analysis has been performed on samples at different CO2 partial pressures by TGA and DTA. It has been found that the calcination behaviour of this material corresponds to the shrinking core model and the reaction mechanism is phase boun...