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Natural Gas
A Basic Handbook
- 2nd Edition - November 26, 2018
- Author: James G. Speight
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 5 7 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 7 7 4 - 8
Natural Gas: A Basic Handbook, Second Edition provides the reader with a quick and accessible introduction to a fuel source/industry that is transforming the energy sector. W… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNatural Gas: A Basic Handbook, Second Edition provides the reader with a quick and accessible introduction to a fuel source/industry that is transforming the energy sector. Written at an introductory level, but still appropriate for engineers and other technical readers, this book provides an overview of natural gas as a fuel source, including its origins, properties and composition. Discussions include the production of natural gas from traditional and unconventional sources, the downstream aspects of the natural gas industry. including processing, storage, and transportation, and environmental issues and emission controls strategies.
This book presents an ideal resource on the topic for engineers new to natural gas, for advisors and consultants in the natural gas industry, and for technical readers interested in learning more about this clean burning fuel source and how it is shaping the energy industry.
- Updated to include newer sources like shale gas
- Includes new discussions on natural gas hydrates and flow assurance
- Covers environmental issues
- Contain expanded coverage of liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Petroleum engineers, engineers moving into the gas industry, advisors and consultants new to the gas industry
Part I: Origin and Properties1. History and Uses2. Production3. Composition and Properties
Part II: Gas Processing4. Recovery, Storage, and Transportation5. History of Gas Processing6. Process Clarification7. Processes8. Emissions Control and Environmental Aspects
- No. of pages: 462
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: November 26, 2018
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128095706
- eBook ISBN: 9780128097748
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James G. Speight
Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas associated with the properties and processing of conventional and synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led, significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until 2020).
Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related courses.
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