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Exergy Recovery During Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification Using Methane as Working Fluid

François Maréchal, Francesco Baldi, Francesca Belfiore

The increased concerns about the effect of human activities on the climate have pushed natural gas among the most obvious solutions for the transition to a low-carbon economy. The growing importance and volumes of liquefied natural gas for transportation o ...

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering2018

Hydro-mechanical analysis of gas transport in compacted bentonite: uncertainty modelling

Lyesse Laloui, Aldo Madaschi

In the last years, transport of gases in clay buffer materials for Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) has been deeply investigated by many research programs in the framework of nuclear waste storage. At present state, the coupled hydromechanical models to an ...

TU Delft2018

Accounting for near-wellbore fracture behavior to unlock the potential of unconventional gas wells

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

Despite ongoing engineering efforts, unconventional horizontal gas wells completed with the multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technique are not yet producing to their full potential, as a meaningful proportion of clusters are producing marginally - if at al ...

2018

NAGRA Project Order 16’189 EBS – Task Force: Gas Transport in Bentonite

Lyesse Laloui, Aldo Madaschi

The Task 7 of the EBS task force is devoted to the modelling of gas transport phenomena in saturated bentonite. It was launched mid‐2016 with the following objectives: - To survey existing modelling tools for the simulation of gas migration in saturated be ...

2018

Gas shale water imbibition tests with controlled suction technique

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Alberto Minardi

Water loss during flowback operations represents one of the main challenges related to the use of hydraulic stimulation to exploit shale gas resources. About 20% of the injected fracturing fluids are usually recovered after stimulation. Fluid imbibition is ...

Springer verlag2018

Hydro-mechanical characterization of gas shales and Opalinus Clay shale in partially saturated conditions

Alberto Minardi

An experimental study on the behaviour of shales in partially water saturated conditions is presented in this thesis. The Opalinus Clay shale and gas shales from different unconventional reservoirs have been studied. Opalinus Clay is currently considered a ...

EPFL2018

Gaz naturel et tournant énergétique

Highlights of the research conducted at the Chaire Gaz Naturel – Pertrosvibri in the October edition of L’Extension. In the release of the L’Extension magazine the role of natural gas as an alternative source of energy was discussed. In the article, the im ...

2018

Reversible Segregation of Ni in LaFe0.8Ni0.2O3 +/-delta During Coke Removal

Davide Ferri, Oliver Kröcher

The deactivation of supported nickel catalysts by coking is an important technological subject for many chemical processes, especially when high concentrations of unsaturated hydrocarbons are present in the feed gas. Here, the reversible segregation of Ni ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Energy and Reserve Dispatch with Distributionally Robust Joint Chance Constraints

Daniel Kuhn, Viet Anh Nguyen, Christos Ordoudis

We develop a two-stage stochastic program for energy and reserve dispatch, which ensures the safe operation of a power system with a high penetration of renewables and a strong interdependence with the natural gas system. Distributionally robust joint chan ...

2018

Exploring Biosynthetic Pathways for the Production of Five Methyl Ethyl Ketone Precursors

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi, Milenko Tokic

Limited reserves of oil and natural gas and the establishment of new environmental policies sparked off intensive research towards sustainable production of the 2nd generation of biofuels, with Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) being one promising fuel candidate. ...

2018

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