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A Study on the Comparison of Methods for the Measurement of Hydrocarbon Dew Point of Natural Gas (천연가스의 탄화수소 이슬점 측정방법 비교 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Jin;Ha, Young-Cheol;Her, Jae-Young;Woo, Jin-Chun;Kim, Yong-Doo;Bae, Hyun-Kil
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.496-502
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    • 2015
  • Hydrocarbon dew point(HCDP), a property which is the most generally used for describing natural gas condensation, is a very important parameter of natural gas quality specifications. HCDP is strongly influenced by the concentration of the heavier hydrocarbon components, especially $C_6+$, so, along with compliance with gas quality specifications, build up of procedures for obtaining accurate HCDP is essential for gas transmission company, because hydrocarbon condensation present may cause serious operational and safety problems. This study has been carried out in an attempt to measure HCDP accurately by the automatic hydrocarbon dew point meter under the actual field conditions. Measured HCDP also has been compared with calculated HCDP using the composition determined by gas chromatograph and industry accepted equation of state at multiple pressures, along with the cricondentherm. The test results are 1) the automatic hydrocarbon dew point meter was able to measure stable HCDP continuously 2) the automatic hydrocarbon dew point meter has been performed reference measurement by pure propane with a known dew point from literature, and 3) A meaningful differences was observed when comparing the automatic hydrocarbon dew point meter and gas chromatograph results for synthetic standard gas mixtures and real gas mixtures.

Development of Gasoline Engine Renewal CNG Generator and a Study on Exhaust Gas Characteristics of Equivalent Diesel Engine (가솔린 엔진개조 CNG 발전기 개발과 동급 디젤엔진의 배출가스 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Cheon;Kim, Ki-Ho;Lee, Jung-Min;Park, An-Young
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.74-79
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    • 2018
  • Compressed natural gas has a high octane number and low particulate emission characteristics as compared with petroleum-based fuels, so it can respond to exhaust gas regulations positively. A natural gas engine has been introduced to improve the quality of the atmosphere, a diversity of fuel, a stable supply, and it has widely been used in city buses and garbage trucks. Recently, the natural gas engine has received attention by overcoming the disadvantage of the theoretical air-fuel ratio method through the development of EGR cooler and engine parts with the development of LP-EGR technology. In this study, we try to develop the cogeneration system that can simultaneously generate electric power and heat by remodeling the gasoline engine to the mixer type CNG engine. As a result, it was able to reduce the NOx (approximately 77%) compared to the diesel engines with same displacement.

Beijing Natural Gas Supply and Environment Protection

  • Shaohua, Dong;Hong, Zhang
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.41-60
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    • 2008
  • This paper analyses the main cause of pollution in Beijing city-the limiting of the pollution caused by coal burning has seen important progress, and natural gas is assuming an important role in China's energy strategy as the country actively seeks new and cleaner sources of energy, since 1997 to 2007, the gas supply for Beijing was given, compared with the air quality standard above II which set up by WHO(World Healthy Organization), as a result the important relationship between the environment and gas using was found, then the percent of $SO_2$, $NO_2$, PM10, CO, $O_3$ of air was shown from August $8^{th}-24^{th}$ 2006, Which it was verified that the quality of air will be perfect within the standard of WHO during the Olympic Game 2008 China.

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Quality Assessment of Curcuma longa L. by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Fingerprint, Principle Components Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering Analysis

  • Li, Ming;Zhou, Xin;Zhao, Yang;Wang, Dao-Ping;Hu, Xiao-Na
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.2287-2293
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    • 2009
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) fingerprint analysis, Principle Components Analysis (PCA), and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) were introduced for quality assessment of Curcuma longa L. (C. longa). The GC-MS fingerprint method was developed and validated by analyzing 33 batches of samples of C. longa from different geographic locations. 18 chromatographic peaks were selected as characteristic peaks and their relative peak areas (RPA) were calculated for quantitative expression. Two principal components (PCs) were extracted by PCA. C. longa collected from Guizhou and Fujian were separated from other samples by PC1, capturing 71.83% of variance. While, PC2 contributed for their further separation, capturing 11.13% of variance. HCA confirmed the result of PCA analysis. Therefore, GC-MS fingerprint study with chemometric techniques provides a very flexible and reliable method for quality assessment of C. longa.

A Study of Mixed Refrigerant Process Control in Liquefied Natural Gas Process using Dynamic Simulation (동적 모사를 이용한 천연가스 액화 공정에서 혼합냉매 공정 제어 연구)

  • Lee, Jae Yong;Park, Chan-Cook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2015
  • Today the most efficient way to transport the natural gas is carried via the liquid. In order to liquefy the natural gas to be cooled to $-160^{\circ}C$ or less. Cooling method has a number of different ways. In this paper, we studied control method for the representative liquefaction process, C3MR. Natural gas liquefaction control is a tool that can maintain the quality of natural gas is a means to ensure stable operation. Analyzing the C3MR process, and select the control parameters for the control valve. We find control structure for mixed refrigerant cycle through the step response. A control result obtained through the dynamic simulation arbitrarily given a disturbance was found to maintain a steady-state results.

Effects of Hydrogen in SNG on Gas Turbine Combustion Characteristics (합성천연가스의 수소함량 변화에 따른 가스터빈 연소특성 평가)

  • Park, Se-Ik;Kim, Ui-Sik;Chung, Jae-Hwa;Hong, Jin-Pyo;Kim, Sung-Chul;Cha, Dong-Jin
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.412-419
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    • 2012
  • Increasing demand for natural gas and higher natural gas prices in the recent decades have led many people to pursue unconventional methods of natural gas production. POSCO-Gwangyang synthetic natural gas (SNG) project was launched in 2010. As the market price of natural gas goes up, the increase of its price gets more sensitive due to the high cost of transportation and liquefaction. This project can make the SNG economically viable. In parallel with this project, KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) joined in launching the SNG Quality Standard Bureau along with KOGAS (Korea Gas Corporation), POSCO and so on. KEPCO Research Institute is in charge of SNG fueled gas turbine combustion test. In this research, several combustion tests were conducted to find out the effect of hydrogen contents in SNG on gas turbine combustion. The hydrogen in synthetic natural gas did not affect on gas turbine combustion characteristics which are turbine inlet temperature including pattern factor and emission performance. However, flame stable region in ${\Phi}$-Air flow rate map was shifted to the lean condition due to autocatalytic effect of hydrogen.

Evaluation of Critical Flow Function by Using Helmholtz Free Energy for Natural Gas Flow Measurement (천연가스 유량 측정에서 헬름홀츠 자유에너지를 이용한 임계유동함수 계산)

  • Ha, Young-Cheol;Her, Jae-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.12
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    • pp.1167-1173
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    • 2013
  • This study aimed to calculate the CFFs (critical flow functions) of a sonic nozzle bank with a 12-nozzle package within 1 s. Toward this end, the Helmholtz free energy of natural gas was formulated by using the AGA8-dc equation of state in a form without integral terms, and thereafter, thermodynamic properties such as the enthalpy, entropy, speed of sound, and heat capacity, which are used in CFF calculation, were derived in analytical form. As a result, the calculation time of CFFs was improved from 6.7 s in a previous study to 0.6 s per 12-nozzle package and kept almost constant regardless of the number of components in natural gas. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the calculated CFF values were in agreement with the results of a CFF international comparison test carried out under ISO management in 1998-1999.

Performance and Emission Characteristics of a CNG Engine Under Different Natural Gas Compositions (천연가스 조성 변화에 따른 CNG 엔진 성능 및 배기가스 특성)

  • Ha, Young-Cheol;Lee, Seong-Min;Kim, Bong-Gyu;Lee, Chang-Jun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.749-755
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    • 2011
  • The performance and emission characteristics of a CNG (compressed natural gas) engine were experimentally investigated under different natural gas compositions. The engine specifications were as follows: 6606 cc, turbo, lean-burn-type; its ignition timing was fixed for the fuel gas with a HHV (higher heating value) of 10454 kcal/$Nm^3$. The experimental results showed that when the HHV of the fuel gas was changed from 10454 kcal/$Nm^3$ to 9811 kcal/$Nm^3$ and 9523 kcal/$Nm^3$, the average power reductions were 3.2 % and 3.4 % (1.5 % and 2.1 %, respectively, with A/F control switched off), respectively, and the average thermal-efficiency reductions were 1.1 % and 1.5 % (1.5 % and 2.1%, respectively, with A/F control switched off), respectively. The emissions of $CO_2$, CO, and $NO_x$ decreased as the HHV of the fuel gas was lowered. On the other hand, the emissions of THC (total hydrocarbon) were not consistent, and the extent of change in their emissions was small.

CFD Approach on Gas Explosion for SIL in Gas Fuelled Ship

  • Kim, Ki-Pyoung;Kim, You-Taek;Kang, Ho-Keun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.195-200
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    • 2015
  • It is envisaged that the effect of increasingly stricter air emissions legislation implemented through IMO Annex VI and other local air quality controls, together with favorable financial conditions for the use of natural gas instead of liquid fuel oil as a bunker fuel, will see an increasing number of DF engine and single gas fuel engine applications to LNG carriers and other vessel types. As part of provision for the current international movements in the shipping industry to reduce GHG emission in air, new design concepts using natural gas as an alternative fuel source for propulsion of large commercial vessels, have been developed by shipyards and research institutes. In this study, an explosion analysis for a gas supply machinery room of LNG-fuelled container ship is presented. The gas fuel concept is employed for the high pressure ME-GI where a leakage in the natural gas double supply pipe to the engines is the subject of the present analysis. The consequences of a leak are simulated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to predict typical leak scenarios, gas cloud sizes and possible explosion pressures. In addition, capacity of the structure which is subject to explosion loads has been assessed.