Natural Gas Processing from Midstream to Downstream
by Nimir O. Elbashir, Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi, Ioannis G. Economou, Kenneth R. Hall
18 Multi‐Scale Models for the Prediction of Microscopic Structure and Physical Properties of Chemical Systems Related to Natural Gas Technology
Konstantinos D. Papavasileiou1,*, Manolis Vasileiadis1, Vasileios K. Michalis1, Loukas D. Peristeras1 and Ioannis G. Economou1,2,3,*
1Molecular Thermodynamics and Modeling of Materials Laboratory, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece
2Chemical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
3TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, USA
Chapter Menu
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Natural Gas Pipeline Transportation: Modeling Gas Hydrates
- 18.3 Modeling Porous Media in Separation and Storage Procedures
- 18.4 Molecular Simulation of Downstream Natural Gas Processing: The GTL Technology
- 18.5 Future Outlook
- List of Abbreviations
18.1 Introduction
Natural gas (NG) production, monetization, and conversion processing technologies have been under constant evolution and development for decades. The continuous efforts of researchers in academia and industry are inherently tied to optimizing the individual processes involved, by coping with challenges related to sustainable economics and high‐quality end products. These implicate treatments of natural gas that is recovered either from conventional or unconventional (e.g., shale formations) reservoirs at the midstream level, which involves, among others, sweetening, sulfur ...