Numerical simulation of real gas flows in natural gas supersonic separation processing

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages 829-836

  Yang, Yan ^a   Wen, Chuang ^a   Wang, Shuli ^a   Feng, Yuqing ^b  

^a CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equation of state; Natural gas separation; Real gas; Supersonic flow

Indexed keywords

EQUATION OF STATE; NATURAL GAS SEPARATION; REAL GAS;

SUPERSONIC FLOW;

EID: 84908567447     PISSN: 18755100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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