A growing body of research shows that natural gas leaks at the distribution level are much more common and extensive than previously thought. Although scholars and advocates have raised alarms about the climate change and economic significance of…
Petroleum pipelines are virtually everywhere. They are buried, constructed above the ground, and under water, including in the oceans and seas. Historically, these pipelines have been shown to develop leaks. Leak detection systems, which are the…
A growing body of research shows that natural gas leaks at the distribution level are much more common and extensive than previously thought. Although scholars and advocates have raised alarms about the climate change and economic significance of…
A heat exchanger is a piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another, which is very important to petrochemical enterprises. Since heat system often uses industrial circulating water as cooling water, the heat…
With the rapid development of urban underground utility tunnels in China, the leakage of natural gas in urban underground utility tunnels is a major concern in industrial risk assessments. To inspect natural gas pipe leakage and study the diffusion…
Detection and diagnosis of defects in pipelines that transmit crude oil is crucial for assuring the safety and integrity of crude oil transportation. With the development of deep learning technologies, studies have been done in the application of…
In this paper we introduce a probabilistic model for data fusion for leak detection in oil and gas pipelines. We propose a fusion algorithm for both detecting and localizing leaks. Our algorithm optimally combines two heterogeneous systems, fiber…
The onshore and offshore production of oil and natural gas is characterized by the multiphase flow in ducts and pipes, which are interconnected by various equipments such as wellhead, pumps, compressors, processing platforms, among others. The…
Near-surface indications of migrating hydrocarbons provide the petroleum systems analyst critical information about source (organic matter type), maturation (organic maturity), migration (migration pathway delineation), and in selected geologic…
In the exploration, processing, and storage of oil, oil leakage accidents often occur. However, most organic oil pollutants are difficult to degrade. When oil pollutants permeate and invade the soil, the mineral composition and structural…
The heterogeneous soil layer was established by self-made three-dimensional plexiglass tank, and two leakage points in shallow and interior soil layer were set up to simulate the mobile phase crude oil migration and redistribution process under the…
A serious fire and explosion accident that resulted in massive crude oil leakage and severe environmental pollution occurred on 16 July, 2010, in Dalian Port, China. To investigate the root cause of accident and conduct a wide-range investigation,…
With the rapid development of the world economy, the petrochemical industry energy reserve strategy and production demand increase, petrochemical storage tank farm scale is also expanding, and continue to large, intensive direction of development. In…
The heterogeneous soil layer was established by self-made three-dimensional plexiglass tank, and two leakage points in shallow and interior soil layer were set up to simulate the mobile phase crude oil migration and redistribution process under the…
Crude oil boom in Nigeria created wealth and associated problems which since 1956 have not been fully resolved. Crude oil pollution ranging from leakage of oil pipelines, vandalisation of oil infrastructures, spillage as a result of transportation…
Oil theft always results in huge economic loss, human casualties, and extremely environmental pollution especially when the leaks from crude oil pipeline are not detected and repaired timely. In this paper, we focus on how to detect and monitor…
A superhydrophobic silica has been utilized as adsorbed the Crude oil leaked during transport in the water of the Iraqi rivers, the capacity absorbing of the aerogel powder for crude oil has been determined. This technique is very important to get…
Although underground pipeline transportation of crude oil is critical, very few studies have been found in the literature addressing the effects of the pipeline leakage position. To fill the gap, in this study, the influences of the leakage position…
Leakage may occur during pressure tests of gas pipelines. Locating the position of leakage followed by immediate repair work becomes very important. On the basis of both the theory of natural gas pipeline transportation and the procedure of pressure…
We review liquid hydrogen (LH2) as a maritime vessel fuel, from descriptions of its fundamental properties to its practical application and safety aspects, in the context of the San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric Vessel with Zero Emissions…
Underwater natural gas pipelines (UNGPs) are frequently used to transport natural gas, which is an important energy resource. UNGPs can get punctured because of several reasons such as especially corrosion and their increasing ages. In this study, a…
Pipelines have nowadays become a major transport mode in our society. At about13:23 on April 10, 2016, a natural gas explosion accident happened in Honglian south community of Haidian District in Beijing, China. One person was killed and 2 were…
With the rapid development of urban underground utility tunnels in China, the leakage of natural gas in urban underground utility tunnels is a major concern in industrial risk assessments. To inspect natural gas pipe leakage and study the diffusion…
Crude oil leaking in rivers may cause serious damages, such as environmental pollution and death of river animals. The crude oil spreading in rivers could be much faster than that on lands, as the leaking crude oil may flow rapidly downstream with…
Detection and diagnosis of defects in pipelines that transmit crude oil is crucial for assuring the safety and integrity of crude oil transportation. With the development of deep learning technologies, studies have been done in the application of…
With the rapid development of the world economy, the petrochemical industry energy reserve strategy and production demand increase, petrochemical storage tank farm scale is also expanding, and continue to large, intensive direction of development. In…
The automatic line-break control valve (LBV) is a robust self-contained pipeline monitoring system which is widely used to prevent gas releasing upon rupture or large leakage event in the oil and gas pipelines. The differential pressure set point…
Crude oil leakage during production, transportation and storage has polluted large soil areas. If improperly treated, this could seriously threaten human health. In this study, low-permeability soil was selected as the contaminated target because it…
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) precipitation incidents often occur during pigging operations in crude oil pipelines, which result in the leakage of H2S with a high concentration at the site and seriously threaten the life and health of workers. To identify…
The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the hydrogen injection strategy on the combustion performance of a natural gas/hydrogen rotary engine. Considering that apex seal leakage (ASL) is an inevitable problem in the actual working process…
Rapid response to underground natural gas leaks could mitigate methane emissions and reduce risks to the environment, human health and safety. Identification of large, potentially hazardous leaks could have environmental and safety benefits,…
World widely, most natural gas pipelines are directly buried underground. Unfortunately, leakages often occur to the natural gas pipelines because of corrosion, external interference, construction defects, etc. As a result of the gas diffusion and…
The leakage and diffusion characteristics of natural gas were investigated in the condition of the leakage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the storage tank. Fluent was adopted to simulate the process in a series of three-dimension unsteady state…
From molecular and isotopic data obtained with a new separation technique, and from published data, it is possible to discuss the relative importance of genetic and post-genetic molecular and isotopic fractionations affecting natural gases. Using a…
Condition monitoring is critical for the safe usage of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Temperature distribution is an important index of LNG storage and it can reflect the tendency of heat leakage and the situation of evaporation. However, traditional…
Recent studies have shown that underground natural gas storage leaks can be indirectly detected through the spectral changes of surface vegetation. However, due to the phenomenon of different samples demonstrating the same spectrum, using a…
Thermal stratification occurs frequently in liquefied gas storage tank due to inevitable heat leak or unexpected thermal attack, and has vital influence on equipment safety. For predicting the thermal stratification of liquefied gas, a comprehensive…
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has legislated and aims to be net zero emissions by 2045. Such ambitious targets have implications for the contribution of hydrogen and its storage in gas distribution networks Therefore, we need to understand…
It is of great importance and necessity to perform quantitative hazard analysis on possible accidental leakage from gas storage cavern in salt rock. To improve the working safety in the cavern, an integrated quantitative method for hazard analysis on…
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the portfolio of technologies available within the underground gas storage industries and evaluates their applicability to geologic CO2 storage. Gas storage operators have accumulated a significant knowledge…
It is very important and necessary to perform quantitative hazard analysis for possible accidental leakage from an underground gas storage cavern in salt rock. An integrated quantitative hazard analysis method for natural gas jet release from salt…
A geochemical survey, in shallow aquifers and soils, has been carried out to evaluate the feasibility of natural gas (CH4) storage in a deep saline aquifer at Rivara (MO), Northern Italy. This paper discusses the areal distribution of CO2 and CH4…
In the thinly bedded salt rocks, the roofs of salt cavern gas storage may have different lithology, some cavern roofs of these caverns may be damaged and lose tightness. Thus it is significant to study the characteristic of the gas leakage through…
In October of 2015, a large underground storage well at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility experienced a massive methane leak (also referred to as “natural gas blowout”), which resulted in the largest ever anthropogenic release of methane…
The leakage and diffusion characteristics of natural gas were investigated in the condition of the leakage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the storage tank. Fluent was adopted to simulate the process in a series of three-dimension unsteady state…
Recent studies have shown that underground natural gas storage leaks can be indirectly detected through the spectral changes of surface vegetation. However, due to the phenomenon of different samples demonstrating the same spectrum, using a…
Thermal stratification occurs frequently in liquefied gas storage tank due to inevitable heat leak or unexpected thermal attack, and has vital influence on equipment safety. For predicting the thermal stratification of liquefied gas, a comprehensive…
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has legislated and aims to be net zero emissions by 2045. Such ambitious targets have implications for the contribution of hydrogen and its storage in gas distribution networks Therefore, we need to understand…
It is of great importance and necessity to perform quantitative hazard analysis on possible accidental leakage from gas storage cavern in salt rock. To improve the working safety in the cavern, an integrated quantitative method for hazard analysis on…
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the portfolio of technologies available within the underground gas storage industries and evaluates their applicability to geologic CO2 storage. Gas storage operators have accumulated a significant knowledge…