Prediction of mass flow rate in supersonic natural gas processing;Prédiction du débit massique dans les applications de traitement supersonique du gaz naturel

Oil and Gas Science and Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1101-1109

  Wen, Chuang ^a,c   Cao, Xuewen ^a   Yang, Yan ^b   Feng, Yuqing ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES; GAS DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL GAS; SEPARATORS; SHOCK WAVES; SPECIFIC HEAT;

COMPRESSIBILITY FACTOR; CUBIC EQUATIONS OF STATE; CYCLONIC SEPARATION; INLET TEMPERATURE; NATURAL GAS PROCESSING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SPECIFIC HEAT RATIO; SUPERSONIC SEPARATORS;

GASES;

EQUATION OF STATE; NATURAL GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROCESSING; SHOCK WAVE;

EID: 84952311692     PISSN: 12944475     EISSN: 19538189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2516/ogst/2013197     Document Type: Article

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