A comparative study of three different methods for flare gas recovery of Asalooye Gas Refinery

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-28

  Rahimpour, M R ^a   Jamshidnejad, Z ^a   Jokar, S M ^a   Karimi, G ^a   Ghorbani, A ^b   Mohammadi, A H ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c South Zagros Gas and Petroleum Production Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Economic evaluation; Electricity generation; Flare gas recovery; Gas compression; GTL technology

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED GAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARNINGS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FLARE STACKS; GAS TURBINES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVESTMENTS; PIPELINES; RECOVERY;

ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FLARE GAS RECOVERIES; GAS COMPRESSION; GTL TECHNOLOGY;

COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS;

EID: 82955207712     PISSN: 18755100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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