Exergy destruction and losses on four North Sea offshore platforms: A comparative study of the oil and gas processing plants

Energy

Volumn 74, Issue C, 2014, Pages 45-58

  Voldsund, Mari ^a   Nguyen, Tuong Van ^b   Elmegaard, Brian ^b   Ertesvåg, Ivar S ^a   Røsjorde, Audun ^c   Jøssang, Knut ^a   Kjelstrup, Signe ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Energy; Exergy; Oil and gas

Indexed keywords

DRILLING PLATFORMS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EXERGY; GAS PLANTS; GAS PRODUCERS; GASES; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; OIL FIELDS; OIL SHALE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ENERGY; EXERGY DESTRUCTIONS; FLARE GAS RECOVERIES; GAS COMPRESSION SYSTEMS; OFF SHORE PLATFORMS; OIL AND GAS; RESERVOIR PROPERTY;

OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS;

EID: 84927695817     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.02.080     Document Type: Article

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