Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing and Applications. Volume 1: Natural Gas Formation and Extraction

1st Edition - January 23, 2024
Editors: Mohammad Reza Rahimpour, Mohammad Amin Makarem, Maryam Meshksar
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 2 1 5 - 9
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Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications. Volume 1: Natural Gas Formation and Extraction comprises an extensive eight-volume series delving into the intricate realms of both the theoretical fundamentals and practical methodologies associated with various facets of natural gas. Encompassing the entire spectrum from exploration and extraction to synthesis, processing, purification, and the generation of valuable chemicals and energy, these volumes also navigate through the complexities of transportation, storage challenges, hydrate formation, extraction, and prevention.

Volume 1, entitled Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications. Volume 1: Natural Gas Formation and Extraction, provides a detailed exposition of the characteristics and properties inherent to natural gas. This book navigates through diverse formation and synthesis techniques sourced from both nonrenewable origins, such as coal and oil shale, and renewable origins, encompassing biomass, sewage, algae, and food wastes as viable precursors for natural gas. The volume further delves into the intricacies of extraction methodologies applied across distinct reservoirs. Additionally, it systematically addresses the associated environmental challenges inherent to natural gas.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
About the editors
Preface
Reviewer acknowledgments
Section I. Natural gas formation and properties
1. Introduction to natural gas importance and characteristics
1. Introduction
2. A historical overview of natural gas
3. Natural gas sources
4. Natural gas composition
5. Natural gas classification
6. The phase behavior of natural gas
7. Physical and chemical properties of natural gas
8. Importance of natural gas for energy generation and material production
9. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
2. Natural gas resources, emission, and climate change
1. Introduction
2. Natural gas characteristics
3. Natural gas origin
4. Natural gas types
5. Natural gas main constituents and processing
6. Sources of methane emission
7. Methane emission monitoring
8. Methane emission mitigation
9. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
3. Role of natural gas in the world energy consumption
1. Introduction
2. Principle and procedure of NG extraction
3. NG processing
4. NG utilization
5. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
4. Environmental challenges of natural gas extraction and production technologies
1. Introduction
2. Environmental impact of natural gas extraction and production process
3. Effects of environmental impacts
4. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
Section II. Natural gas extraction from non-renewable resources
5. Characteristics of natural gas reservoirs
1. Introduction
2. Types of gas reservoirs
3. Composition and characterization of natural gas
4. The journey of natural gas
5. Other types of natural gas reservoirs
6. Conclusions and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
6. Natural gas production associated to oil from oil and gas reservoirs
1. Introduction
2. Natural gas principles and procedures
3. Associated natural gas processes
4. Associated hydrocarbon production
5. Current applications and cases
6. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
7. Natural gas from oil production: Gas-lift technologies
1. Introduction
2. Oil production of gas-lift technique
3. Gas-lift model
4. Model formulation
5. Gas-lift technology costs
6. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
8. Methods and technologies of coal-bed methane extraction
1. Introduction
2. Generation of coal bed methane
3. Transport mechanism of coal bed methane
4. Coal bed methane extraction techniques
5. Enhanced coal bed methane and possible carbon dioxide sequestration
6. Challenges and water production problems
7. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
9. Shale gas extraction technologies
1. Introduction
2. Shale gas extraction principles and procedures
3. Gas shale geology
4. Nonaqueous fracturing fluids
5. Water recycling and treatment
6. Desalination and subsequent reuse of produced water: Technologies and developments
7. Analytical techniques for organics identification
8. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
Section III. Synthetic natural gas (SNG) from non-renewable resources
10. Synthetic natural gas from coal
1. Introduction
2. Principles and procedures: The methanation process
3. Current applications and cases: Existing gasification technologies
4. Future works or recent trends
5. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
11. Synthetic natural gas from oil shale
1. Introduction
2. Oil shale classification
3. Oil shale retorting processes
4. Conversion technologies
5. Factors affecting oil shale pyrolysis
6. Research progress on catalytic pyrolysis of oil shale
7. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
Section IV. Bio-synthetic natural gas (Bio-SNG) from renewable resources
12. Natural gas production from biomass: Lignin, starch, sucrose, cellulose
1. Introduction
2. Cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin (lignocellulosic challenges)
3. Starch and sucrose
4. Pretreatment processes of lignocellulosic materials
5. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
13. Natural gas production from sewage
1. Introduction
2. Principles, procedures, and processes
3. Current applications and cases of natural gas production from sewage
4. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
14. Natural gas production from food waste
1. Introduction
2. Food waste to natural gas technology principles and procedures
3. Food waste processing to natural gas
4. Current use of natural gas
5. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
15. Natural gas production from microalgae and macroalgae
1. Introduction
2. Principles and procedures of natural gas from microalgae and macroalgae
3. Microalgae and macroalgae processing to natural gas
4. Current applications and cases
5. Conclusion and future outlooks
Abbreviations and symbols
Index

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University joint with University of Sydney, Australia 1988. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor in September 1998 at Shiraz University. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour, was a Research Associate at University of California, Davis from 2012 till 2017. During his stay in University of California, he developed different reaction networks and catalytic processes such as thermal and plasma reactors for upgrading of lignin bio-oil to biofuel with collaboration of UCDAVIS. He has been a Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University from 2005 till 2009 and from 2015 till 2020. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour leads a research group in fuel processing technology focused on the catalytic conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, and renewable fuels such as bio-oils derived from lignin to valuable energy sources. He provides young distinguished scholars with perfect educational opportunities in both experimental methods and theoretical tools in developing countries to investigate in-depth research in the various field of chemical engineering including carbon capture, chemical looping, membrane separation, storage and utilization technologies, novel technologies for natural gas conversion and improving the energy efficiency in the production and use of natural gas industries.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Mohammad Amin Makarem

Dr. Mohammad Amin Makarem is a research associate at Shiraz University. His research interests are gas separation and purification, nanofluids, microfluidics, catalyst synthesis, reactor design and green energy. In gas separation, his focus is on experimental and theoretical investigation and optimization of pressure swing adsorption process, and in the gas purification field, he is working on novel technologies such as microchannels. Recently, he has investigated methods of synthesizing bio-template nanomaterials and catalysts. Besides, he has collaborated in writing and editing various books and book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, as well as guest editing journals special issues.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Associate, Methanol Institute, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Maryam Meshksar

Maryam Meshksar is a research associate at Shiraz University. Her research has focused on gas separation, clean energy, and catalyst synthesis. In gas separation, she is working on membrane separation process, and in the clean energy field, she has worked on different reforming-based processes for syngas production from methane experimentally. She has also synthesized novel catalysts for these processes which are tested in for the first time. Besides, she has reviewed novel technologies like microchannels for energy production. Recently, she has written various book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran