International Gas Union Research Conference (IGRC 2017)
Natural Gas: Catalysing the Future
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 24 - 26 May 2017
Volume 1 of 3
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VOLUME 1
ORAL PRESENTATION
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT – BENEFITS OF USE OF NATURAL GAS ON CO2 EMISSIONS
CO-PRODUCTION OF BIOGAS AND BIOCHEMICALS FOR ECONOMICALLY ADVANTAGEOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT...... 1 Jun Tsubota, Isao Matsushita, Yoshikazu Kawata
GHG MITIGATION DUE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NCG AND EE MEASURES IN CARGO TRANSPORTATION IN BRAZIL ...... 5 Thiago Luis Felipe Brito, Rodrigo Galbieri, Dominique Mouette, Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos, Andre F. Simoes
CONTRIBUTION OF DECENTRALIZED COMBINED HEATING AND POWER UNITS TO REDUCTION OF CO2 EMISSIONS AND A AFFORDABLE ENERGY SUPPLY ...... 15 Hartmut Krause, Peter Markewitz, Patric Hansen, Michael Schmidt, Marcus Schuhmacher
WASTE HEAT RECOVERY FROM INCINERATOR EXHAUST GASES AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT IN THE SULFUR RECOVERY UNITS ...... 23 Asef Pourverdi, Masoud Ashgaran, Mohamad Hassan Firoozbakht
CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS – VARIABILITY IN GAS QUALITY & INTERCHANGEABILITY
NATURAL GAS QUALITY FLUCTUATIONS - SURVEYS AND STATISTICS ON THE SITUATION IN GERMANY ...... 32 Jorg Leicher, Anne Giese, Klaus Gorner, Hartmut Krause, Matthias Werschy, Holger Dorr
ACCURATE, REAL-TIME MONITORING OF GAS QUALITY...... 42 Terry Williams, Tony Wimpenny, Harry Jones
WOBBE INDEX MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL FOR INDUSTRY : A MATURE TECHNOLOGY FACING NEW CHALLENGES...... 49 Laurent Lantoine, Mathieu Ourliac
RETROFIT WOBBE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL GASBURNERS ...... 58 Howard Levinsky, Berthil Slim, Johan Knijp
DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL GAS UTILIZATION - CHP
REQUIREMENTS FOR A FUTURE MODEL OF RESIDENTIAL FUEL CELL SYSTEMS...... 65 Takuya Banno, Yuki Nagai, Takayuki Watanabe, Kosuke Kobayashi
GAS FIRED MINI-CHP INSTALLATIONS INCLUDING RENEWABLES ...... 71 Jan De Wit, Bjorn Klavenes Eliasen, Martin Frydenlund
100 CHP SYSTEMS IN THE FIELD - CO2 REDUCTION POTENTIAL IN THE GERMAN RESIDENTIAL SECTOR...... 79 Manfred Lange, Klaus Gorner, Rolf Albus, Jorn Benthin, Frank Burmeister, Mustafa Flayyih, Michael Schmidt, Maren Wenzel
DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENTIAL SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM...... 88 Uenoyama Satoru, Suzuki Minoru, Iwata Shin, Inoue Shuichi, Yasuhara Kanichiro
ENERGY CONVERGENCE AND MARKETING – EFFICIENCY AND BUSINESS MODELS
ENTREPRENEURIAL MARKETING FOR LIFE IN THE SENSE OF NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR LPG MARKET ...... 95 Amir Hooshang Karami
CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE GAS SYSTEM AS AN INTEGRATED PART OF THE FUTURE DANISH ENERGY SYSTEM...... 104 Marie Munster, Rasmus Bramstoft, Poul Erik Morthorst, Frauke Wiese
REVIEW OF ENERGY SAVING IN IRANIAN GAS INDUSTRY ...... 114 Seyed Masoud Bagheri, Behnam Mirzaei, Fereydoun Asadi
NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION IN BRAZIL: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A NEW SERVICE ECOSYSTEM...... 123 Cristina Sayao Fetue
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT – METHANE EMISSIONS: A CHALLENGE FOR THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DEFAULT VALUES FOR THE GHG EMISSIONS OF THE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CHAIN ...... 131 Gert Mueller Syring, Charlotte Grosse, Melanie Eyser, Josephie Glandien, Stefan Schutz
ADDRESSING METHANE EMISSIONS FROM THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY ...... 136 Kristine Wiley, William Liss, Karen Crippen, Chris Moore, Michael Adamo
CALCULATION AND COMPARING THE AMOUNT OF DISCHARGED GAS DURING THE PURGING PROCESS WITH VARIOUS EQUATIONS ...... 142 Hassan Eftekhari, Mohammad Sadegh Pahlavan Zade, Mahmood Farzane-Gord
CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS – THE HUMAN FACTOR: RESOURCES AND SAFETY
CHANGING SYSTEM DESIGN OF GAS PRESSURE REDUCTION STATION FOR FASTER GAS FLOW MAINTAINING AFTER DESTRUCTION OF STATION ...... 152 Hadi Asadi
OBSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS AND ALTERNATIVES TO ACCESS TACIT KNOWLEDGE FOR CONVERTING TO ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ...... 158 Alireza Ahmadi Nodoushan
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR GAS PROJECTS IN BRAZIL...... 168 Mariana Miranda, Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
EVALUATION OF DAMAGE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR EMBEDDED GAS PIPELINES UNDER EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDES...... 178 Hadi Farahi Jahromi, Masoud Samadian, Fardin Jafarzadeh
DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL GAS UTILIZATION – HYBRID SYSTEMS AND DIGITALIZATION OF DOMESTIC GAS UTILIZATION
A RISK OF SCALE FORMATION ON RESIDENTIAL FUEL CELL ...... 186 Junya Koda, Shiori Sugiyama, Masayuki Gondaira, Takeshi Daikuhara, Naoto Nakazato
STUDY ON HOT BOX FOR RESIDENTIAL SOFC SYSTEM ...... 193 Rei Kato, Masafumi Ohashi, Takuya Ito, Shinji Amaha, Shin Inagaki
GAS HYBRID SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES POSITIVE ROLE IN TOMORROW ENERGY LANDSCAPE ...... 200 Cristian Muresan, Jean Schweitzer, Romain Ruillard
A HYBRIDIZED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND IMPERIALIST COMPETITIVE ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR PREDICTION OF DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT IN DENSE-DULLUTED LIQUIDS ...... 210 Razagh Hafezi, Yasha Hasanzadeh
ENERGY CONVERGENCE AND MARKETING – P2G
POWER-TO-GAS INTEGRATION TO THE SUGARCANE ETHANOL INDUSTRY: POTENTIAL FOR BIOMETHANE GENERATION AND CO2 EMISSION MITIGATION ...... 221 Alexandre De Barros Gallo, Marilin Mariano Dos Santos, Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Murilo Tadeu Werneck Faga, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
COMPARISON OF POWER-TO-X TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FUELS FROM RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY...... 231 Frank Graf, Siegfried Bajohr, Wolfgang Koppe, Thomas Kolb, Nike Trudel
SETTING UP SMALL DOMESTIC BUSINESSES, ACHIEVE LONG-TERM BENEFITS...... 238 Jafar Oshriyeh
SYNERGY FOSSIL GASES WITH RES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS...... 244 Zdzislaw Gebhardt, Robert Wojtowicz
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT – CLIMATE & CARBON MANAGEMENT
AN ALTERNATIVE PROCESS FOR CO2 SEPARATION BY IONIC LIQUID BASED CHEMICAL ABSORPTION...... 253 Felix Ortloff, Frank Graf, Thomas Kolb, Markus Roschitz
VISION AND TRANSITION ROAD MAP TO A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEM ...... 263 Ton Van Wingerden
CAN TECHNOLOGY UNLOCK ‘UNBURNABLE CARBON’?...... 272 Sara Budinis, Sam Krevor, Niall Mac Mac Dowell, Nigel Brandon, Adam Hawkes
CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS – CROSS CUTTING INNOVATION
NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION FORECASTING USING WAVELET TRANSFORM AND NEURAL NETWORKS...... 280 Mahmoodreza Karimi, Faezeh Rajabi
THE STATE OF COMPETITION IN NATURAL GAS MARKET APPLICATION OF PORTER'S FIVE FORCES FOR NIGC...... 286 Amirnaser Akhavan, Reza Hafezi, Saeed Pakseresht
GRAPHENE LIKE -NANOPOROUS CARBON WITH HIGH SURFACE AREA A SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE FOR CO2 CAPTURE ...... 294 Atiyyeh Ghorbani, Alimorad Rashidi, Alaleh Eftekhari
OIL AND SUSPENDED SOLIDS REMOVAL FROM OILY WASTEWATER IN SHAHID HASHEMINEJAD GAS PROCESSING COMPANY (SGPC) BY USING API AND DAF SEPARATION UNITS...... 302 Karim Ghasemipanah, Mehdi Barjinikhabbaz, Ebrahim Alaie, Mohammad Mehdi Esfahani, Ali Sharifi, Mohammad Hasan Firoozbakh
DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL GAS UTILIZATION – GAS HEATING, COOLING, NEW INSTALLATIONS
CONDENSING BOILERS: STILL THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE HEATING AND HOT WATER PRODUCTION - FACTS AND FIGURES ...... 310 Jean Schweitzer
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT IN COMMERCIAL KITCHEN USING LOW RADIATIVE COOKING EQUIPMENT...... 321 Tetsuya Mori, Koichi Nishimura, Tomoya Kitamura
DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST GAS ABSORPTION HEAT PUMPS FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET ...... 326 Paul Glanville, Daniel Suchorabski, Michael Mensinger, Michael Garrabrant
THE ROLE OF NATURAL GAS IN THE ZERO NET ENERGY HOME FUTURE ...... 336 Neil Leslie, Larry Brand
ENERGY CONVERGENCE AND MARKETING - BIOGAS
MAPPED† PROJECT: DIGITAL INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR INTELLIGENT BIOGAS PRODUCTION AND INJECTION OVER A TERRITORY ...... 345 G. Acarion, F. Beline, C. Charnier, P. Dabert, Olivier Guerrini, Charlotte Richard, Elodie Le Cadre, E. Latrille, J. Miroux, JP. Steyer
MODELLING OF RENEWABLE GAS IN THE FUTURE ENERGY SYSTEM...... 347 Rasmus Bramstoft, Marie Munster, Ida Grasted Jensen, Hans Ravn, Amalia Pizzaro Alonso
EFFECTS OF POWER TO GAS TECHNOLOGY AND BIO-GAS PLANTS IN EFFICIENCY STABILITY OF A MICROGRID...... 355 Seyed Abbas Hosseini Zahani, Vahid Amir, Mahdi Azimian
RENOVAGAS PROJECT: POWER TO METHANE ...... 365 Jose Lana, Jorge Modrego, John Chamberlain, Piedad Martinez, Mariana Martin, Raul Cano, Jacobo Rubio, Rufino Navarro, Susana Perez Gil, Monica Sanchez
E&P AND STORAGE – CHALLENGES OF MONETIZATION OF GAS AND NON-CONVENTIONAL GAS PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES
FRACTURING TECHNOLOGY EVOLVEMENT IN YAXI ULTRA HIGH TECTONIC STRESS OILFIELD, P.R. CHINA...... 375 Dingwei Weng, Zhanjun Liu, Yun Xu, Jiong Meng, Hongbo Liang, Xiang Peng
QUANTIFYING THE NONPAY MUDSTONE COMPACTION DRIVING EFFECTS IN OVERPRESSURED TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS OF TARIM BASIN, WEST CHINA...... 382 Xiaohua Liu, Ruilan Luo, Weigang Huang
CLASSIFICATION OF THE BIGGEST EVER FLOATING STORAGE REGASIFICATION UNIT...... 390 Philippe Cambos, Louis Diebold
RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF PREDICTION METHOD FOR SWEET SPOTS OF SHALE GAS USING GEOPHYSICAL DATA: A CASE STUDY IN THE LONGMAXI FORMATION OF THE LOWER SILURIAN JURASSIC OF W1 AREA SICHUAN BASIN...... 400 Sheng Chen, Wenzhi Zhao, Yonglin Ouyang, Qingcai Zeng, Qing Yang, Huaxing Hou, Shaohua Gai, Shihai Bao, Xinyu Li
GAS DRIVEN MOBILITY – CNG, H2
PROGRESS AND TECHNICAL ISSUES: SETTING GAS QUALITY SPECIFICATIONS FOR NATURAL GAS VEHICLES...... 409 Ted Williams
DECREASING OF CO2 EMISSIONS BY CREATING REGIONAL NGV INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF KALUGA REGION (RUSSIA)...... 419 Vladislav Karasevich, Alexey Yakovlev, Andrey Albul, Aleksander Chernykh, Eugeniya Tischenko
BARRIERS IN THE SMALL-SCALE LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (SSLNG) DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL...... 425 Roberto Ignacio Da Silva, Cylon Liaw, Cristiano Borges, Denis Fraga, Moutinho Dos Santos
GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION - DISTRIBUTION
SMART TECHNOLGIES FOR SMART GAS GRIDS...... 434 Pascal Vercamer, Gladys Le Guen
THE VALUE OF A SMART GAS GRID...... 441 Pieter Mans, Johan Kuiphof, Riny Vermue, Ruud Mooij, Werner Van Westering
21ST CENTURY PE100 PIPELINES ASSURING INTEGRITY AND EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE ...... 451 Chris O’Connor
THE USE OF EXCESS FLOW VALVE IN GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN COMGAS ...... 461 Sergio Kempenich, Carlos A. Cunha
INDUSTRIAL GAS UTILIZATION – LARGE SCALE HEAT & POWER PRODUCTION
ENERGY AND RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF SPGC GAS POWER PLANT IN PHASES 4&5 ...... 471 Masumeh Zabihi, Koorosh Satvati
EVALUATION OF THE NOX EMISSIONS OF THE DANISH POPULATION OF GAS BOILERS ABOVE 120 KW ...... 482 Per Kristensen, Jean Schweitzer
CONVERSION OF SYNGAS TO HIGHER HYDROCARBONS : STUDY OF PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION OVER COBALT BASED CATALYSTS...... 491 Yahya Zamani, Elham Yaghoobpour, Saeed Zarrinpashne, Akbar Zamaniyan
NATURAL GAS AS SUPPLEMENTARY FUEL IN SUGAR CANE AND ETHANOL PLANTS IN BRAZIL...... 498 Sergio Guerreiro Ribeiro, Jose Waldir Ferrari, Alexandre Furlan Schoubek, Celso Ricardo Bertinotti
E&P AND STORAGE - STORAGE
DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICAL REALIZATION OF THE WORLD’S FIRST MATERIAL (7%Ni-TMCP Steel) FOR LNG STORAGE TANK...... 508 Sho Tomita, Atsushi IIda, Hiroshi Nishigami, Takahiro Kamo, Hironori Wakamatsu, Toshimichi Nagao, Shuichi Hirai, Masahiko Mitsumoto, Shutaro Shimpo
NATURAL BIOATTENUATION OF BTEX COMPOUNDS IN UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE...... 518 Guilhem Caumette, David Dequidt, Pierre Chiquet, Delphine Patriarche, Isabelle Le Hecho, Anthony Ranchou Peyruse, Herve Carrier
GRAPHENE BASE NANOADSORBENT FOR NATURAL GAS STORAGE ...... 525 Alimorad Rashidi, Leila Mahmoudian, Maryam Rashtchi
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HYDROGEN STORAGE IN SALT CAVERNS...... 534 Louvet Floriane, Abid Mohamed, Charnavel Yvan, Hevin Gregoire
GAS DRIVEN MOBILITY – LNG ON ROADS
LNG AS A SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE FUEL FOR HEAVY TRUCKS IN GERMANY...... 542 Frank Graf, Wolfgang Koppel, Johannes Ruf
INFRASTRUCTURAL GAS STORAGE AT CNG FILLING STATION FOR BALANCING FEED-IN OF RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS...... 550 Rolf Van Der Velde, Maarten Van Blijderveen, Pelle Schlichting
TOWARDS WELL-FOUNDED STANDARDS FOR SILOXANES IN BIO-CNG ...... 557 Martijn Van Essen, Pieter Visser, Howard Levinsky, Sander Gersen
GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION – GAS QUALITY TRACKING
NOVEL SHORT- AND LONG-TERM STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE THE INTRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE GASES INTO THE GAS GRID...... 567 Sander Gersen, Johan Holstein, Martijn Van Essen, Martin Brown, Howard Levinsky
CORROSION INHIBITION PERFORMANCE OF SOME SULFUR-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS IN AMINE ABSORBENTS USED FOR CO2 REMOVAL...... 575 Jaber Neshati, Mohammad Naser Kakaei, Hamed Hoseiny, Tahereh Poursaberi
CALORIFIC VALUE MEASUREMENT WITH RESIDENTIAL ULTRASONIC GAS METERS ...... 581 Tatsushi Minami, Isao Takimoto
GROSS CHARACTERIZATION METHOD FOR THE CALCULATION OF THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL GAS USING THE GERG-2008 EQUATION OF STATE ...... 591 Andrew Laughton
INDUSTRIAL GAS UTILIZATION – INDUSTRIAL COMBUSTION SYSTEMS
A LARGE OPERATION RANGE, HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND LOW EMISSIONS BURNER FOR INDUSTRIAL STEAM PRODUCTION ...... 601 Thierry Bellin-Croyat, Dominique Gosselin, Mathieu Ourliac
PROMOTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY BY INCREASING NATURAL GAS USE: AN OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT IN THE BRAZILIAN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR THROUGH BENCHMARK ANALYSIS ...... 609 Alexandre De Barros Gallo, Alberto Jose Fossa, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos, Murilo Tadeu Werneck Faga
COMPACT HYDROGEN GENERATOR TECHNOLOGY ...... 618 Vann Bush, Jeff Mays, Ganesan Subbarama
POLLUTANT EMISSIONS REDUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL GAS-FIRED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES ...... 628 Jorg Leicher, Anne Giese, Klaus Gorner, Philippe Buchet
E&P AND STORAGE – ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS & INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
LNG PROCESSING ...... 639 Terry Williams, Tony Wimpenny, Harry Jones
A NEW METHOD FOR LNG ENERGY DETERMINATION ...... 647 Terry Williams, Tony Wimpenny, Harry Jones
SMART CASING: STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF WELL BORE CEMENT...... 657 Michel Hardy, Carine Lacroix, Elodie Rousset, Axel-Pierre Bois
DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE OF STIMULATING HPHT DEEP FRACTURED GAS SANDSTONE...... 663 Mingguang Che, Yonghui Wang, Jianxin Peng, Yu Xie, Lanming Wei, Guoqing Zou
GAS DRIVEN MOBILITY – NON-ROAD TRANSPORT
OVERVIEW OF BRAZIL LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) INDUSTRY...... 670 Roberto Ignacio Da Silva, Cylon Liaw, Denis Fraga, Cristiano Borges, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
VOLUME 2
LNG THERMODYNAMICS IN BUNKERING TANKS, DECISION-SUPPORT TOOL DEVELOPMENT ...... 680 Marc Perrin, Michel Ben Belgace, Gabrielle Menard, Frederic Legrand
GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION - TRANSPORT
CASED PIPELINE INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT...... 686 Anne Chauvancy, Christophe Drevond, Murielle Bouchardy, Julian Piquemal
STUDY OF IRAN’S NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION NETWORK RESILIENCY...... 696 Dourandish Mohsen, Gorjiara Mina, Hamidi Nezhad Atieh
PERFORMANCE ADHESION TESTING OF PROTECTIVE COATINGS FOR GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINES ...... 706 Saeed Ahmadizadeh
DETECTABILITY OF TRANSVERSE CRACKS IN OIL AND GAS PIPELINES...... 716 Zainali Omid, Yazdanyar Masoud, Ghorbani Reza
THE STATE OF THE ART OF LONG DISTANCE GAS PIPELINE IN CHINA ...... 723 Chengjia Shang
GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION – INTEGRITY AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION TO EXTERNAL PIPELINE COATING SYSTEMS...... 730 Christopher O’Connor
CORROSION RISK ASSESSMENT OF GAS PIPELINE USING INTELLIGENT PIGGING (CASE STUDY: 40- INCH GAS PIPELINE OF NORTH OF IRAN)...... 740 Saeed Akbarzade Omran, SeyedMehdi GhaziHosseini
THE USE OF SIMPLE CODES AND CFD SIMULATIONS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCIDENTAL RELEASE CONSEQUENCES ON GAS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURES ...... 748 Pascal Vercamer, Arnaud Foissac, Vincent Blanchetiere, Nicolas Herchin
GLOBAL ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ...... 758 Ricardo Nebias, Mark Wright, Sebastian Ruik Beyhaut
POSTER SESSION
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
EXPERIENCE AND PROSPECTS OF ACID GAS SEQUESTRATION IN POLAND...... 764 Piotr Kosowski, Jerzy Stopa, Pawel Wojnarowski, Mariusz Dziadkiewicz
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE THERMODYNAMICS OF METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE REACTIONS FOR GREENHOUSE GASES UTILIZATION...... 774 Saeed Sahebdelfar, Maryam Takht Ravanchi
BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE AND MERCAPTIDE IN FED-BATCH BIOREACTOR, USING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT ...... 780 Keyumars Houshyar, Fereidun Esmaeilzadeh, Payam Setoodeh, Houshang Mohamadi, Dariush Mowla
ENERGY SAVING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AT COMPRESSOR STATIONS AND PIPELINES OF IRANIAN GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY, ZONE4...... 791 Atiyeh Naddaf
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND USE BASED ON THE ASSESSMENT OF A COMPLETE LIFECYCLE ...... 797 Natalia Pystina, Oleg Aksyutin, Alexander Ishkov, Elena Kosolapova
BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE AND MERCAPTIDE IN FED-BATCH BIOREACTOR, USING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT ...... 806 Dariush Mowla, Keyumars Houshyar, Feridun Esmaeilzadeh, Payam Setoodeh
GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS AND OFFICIAL ENERGY PLANNING IN BRAZIL – NATURAL GAS CONTRIBUTION ...... 807 Adelino Ricardo Jacintho Esparta, Luz Zoraida Dondero Villanueva, Denis Martins Fraga, Oswaldo Dos Santos Lucon, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
CARBON DIOXIDE ABSORPTION USING WATER-BASED TIO2 AND MWCNT NANOFLUIDS IN A HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE CONTACTOR ...... 817 Dariush Mowla, Parisa Zare, Peyman Keshavarz
SIMULATION OF THE NATURAL GAS SWEETENING PLANT IN PHASES 17 AND 18 IN IRAN ...... 824 Marziyeh Zare, Hamid Bonyad, Alitagh Zoghi
ESTIMATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION RATE FROM GAS REFINERY ...... 829 Farrokh Faghih, Mojtaba Pourabbas, Farhad Faghih
REDUCTION IN NATURAL GAS EMISSION IN GAS TRANSMISSION NETWORK BY MEANS OF TWO PHASE FILTERING SYSTEM...... 837 Mostafa Hesari
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON ISO 50001 TO REDUCE EMISSION AND GET A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. A CASE STUDY OF GAS TREATING PLANTS...... 843 Abolfazl Atash Jameh, Reza Mesgarian, Sedighe Seyed Ali
SEPARATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM NATURAL GAS BY WINDOWED CARBON NANOTUBES USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION ...... 844 Ali Yazdani Nejad
AN OPTIMIZED PROCESS TO UTILIZATION OF GREENHOUSE GASES: CRYOGENIC CARBON CAPTURE-CO2 REFORMING OF METHANE-FISHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS-CATALYTIC THE HYDROGENATION (CCC-DRM-FTS-CDH)...... 849 Majid Sarkari, Farhad Fazlallahi, Mehdi Zarei, Mohammd Jaafar Nafeh Feshan, Shahram Sharifi
SAVING ENERGY AND REDUCING CO2 EMISSION USING HOT-COLD GAS EXCHANGER IN GAS DEHYDRATION PLANTS...... 850 Majid Mohammadi
FLARE GAS RECOVERY; A CASE STUDY FOR SOUTH PARS GAS COMPLEX ...... 856 Mohammad Eskandari, Mohammad Jeddi, Ali Eskandari
PERSPECTIVES FOR CARBON STORAGE AND USAGE IN BRAZIL: FEASIBILITY FOR SORPTION ON COAL SEAMS FROM PARANA BASIN AND ASSOCIATED CBM PRODUCTION...... 865 Haline De Vasconcellos Rocha, Jose Ricardo Lemes De Almeida, Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
COGENERATION POTENTIAL IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR AND GAS EMISSION REDUCTION: A CASE STUDY...... 876 Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Natalia De Assis Brasil Weber, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos, Celio Bermann
BREAKTHROUGH CURVE MODELING FOR ADSORPTION OF SULFUR COMPOUNDS FROM PROPANE AND BUTANE STREAMS USING NANO ZEOLITE ...... 886 Flor Shayegh, Abdollah Khosravanian, Mohammad Soltanieh, Saeed Soltanali, Alimorad Rashidi
CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS
OXYGEN CONTENT IN NATURAL GAS INFRASTRUCTURE - SOURCES, RESULTING PROBLEMS AND A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE REMOVAL...... 895 Toni Raabe, Hartmut Krause, Sven Kureti
DEVELOPMENT OF CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE MEMBRANES FOR THE USE OF RENEWABLE GASES, BIOMETHANE AND HYDROGEN IN NATURAL GAS NETWORKS...... 906 Angel Gutierrez, Jon Zuniga, Juan Ramon Arraibi, Margot Llosa Tanco, J. L. Viviente, L. Garcia Gomez
CO2 METHANATION FOR UPGRADING CO2-RICH NATURAL GASES: A THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS ...... 916 Saeed Sahebdelfar, Maryam Takht Ravanchi
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENERGY SECTOR...... 917 Renat Alaberdin, Inna Lubkova, Roman Shepelev
ANALYSIS OF SECTORAL PLANNING FOR THE NATURAL GAS SECTOR: THE CASE OF PEMAT 2022...... 922 Taluia Croso, Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
REGULATION OF OPEN ACCESS IN BRAZILIAN NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION AND THE CASE OF SAO PAULO...... 932 Hirdan Katarina De Medeiros Costa, Maiara Borges, Edmilson Moutinho Dos Santos
EVALUATION OF METHANE NUMBER CALCULATIONS FOLLOWING EN16726 ...... 942 Per Gravers Kristensen, Kim Jacobsen
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ALONG THE WHOLE GAS VALUE CHAIN : FROM THE WELL TO THE BOILER ...... 949 Mathieu Ourliac, Erwin George, Joel Adams
USE OF LOW BTU NATURAL GAS BY MIXING WITH FUEL NATURAL GAS ...... 955 Reza Mesgarian
EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE SHARING ON THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL GAS QUALITY ON GAS UTILIZATION ...... 962 Jose Lana, Jean Schweitzer, Negar Sadegh, Uwe Klaas
A FUEL-ADAPTIVE ENGINE CONTROL APPROACH USING A NOVEL GAS SENSOR FOR MEASURING CHANGES IN LAMINAR BURNING VELOCITY...... 972 Howard Levinsky, Pieter Visser, Gerco Van Dijk
ENERGY STORAGE – HYDROGEN INJECTED INTO THE GAS GRID VIA ELECTROLYSIS FIELD TEST...... 982 Jesper Bruun, Henrik Iskov, Laila Grahl Madsen, Bjarne Koch
PREDICTION EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF MEMORY BASED ON ANXIETY, STRESS AND DEPRESSION OF GAS COMPANY EMPLOYEES...... 989 Ali Akbar Malekirad, Behzad Khalili, Mehdi Mohammadi, Ayat Fathi
EARTHQUAKE SHUT-OFF SYSTEM OF TEHRAN GAS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK...... 990 Masoud Samadian Zakaria, Anooshiravan Ansari, Seyed Mohammand Hoseini Tehrani, Mahammad Hossein Hakimi
TWO DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY: A NEW TOOL FOR FAST AND ENHANCED DIAGNOSTICS APPLIED TO GAS AND BIOMETHANE INDUSTRIES ...... 995 Etienne Basset, Marianne Gallardo, Jerome Vial, F. Hilaire, P. Sassiat, D. Thiebaut, R. Bayard
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING OF HAZARD RADIUS FOR METHANE RICH NATURAL GAS...... 1001 Ali Gharaee, Hesam Komari Alaei
REMEDIATION OF HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATED SOIL USING ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESS...... 1002 Ali Gharaee
DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL GAS UTILIZATION
ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF RESIDENTIAL SECTOR GAS DEMAND PRICE AND INCOME ELASTICITIES THE CASE OF SOME GECF MEMBER COUNTRIES ...... 1013 Eshagh Mansourkiaee, Hussein Moghaddam
ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION IN THE IRANIAN DOMESTIC SECTOR...... 1021 Abbas Alghafoori, Mehdi Davoudi, Saeed Samieirad
LOWERING ENERGY VULNERABILITY IN SAO PAULO BY INCREASING THE USE OF GAS ...... 1031 Greta Yale Lima Dos Santos, Luis Antonio Bittar Venturi, Alexandre Vastella Ferreira De Melo, Pedro Paulo Fernandes Da Silva
PROCESS MONITORING AND FAULT DETECTION OF DISTILLATION COLUMNS BY PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS USING HYSYS SIMULATION ...... 1038 Hesam Komari Alaei
CHEMICAL LOOPING REFORMING OF NATURAL GAS: AN ENDOTHERMIC-EXOTHERMIC PERFORMANCE...... 1046 Hadi Ebrahimi, Mohammad Rahmani
THERMODYNAMIC SIMULATION AND ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION OF STEAM UNIT IN A SAMPLE OIL REFINERY...... 1053 Ehsan Karami
DEVELOPMENT OF DESULFURIZATION ADSORBENT FOR CITY GAS FOR RESIDENTIAL PEFC COGENERATION SYSTEM ...... 1062 Masafumi Ohashi, Yoshitaka Baba, Tomoko Nakano
AN ACTION TO THE ENERGY MANEGEMENT THAT USES IOT ...... 1069 Yusuke Tokuda
MODELLING AND DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF COUPLED GAS AND ELECTRICITY GRIDS AND THEIR MUTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION USING INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES LIKE POWER TO GAS AND CHP ...... 1077 Frank Graf, Wolfgang Koeppel, Praseeth Prabhakaran
NATURAL GAS INDOOR INSTALLATIONS WITH MULTILAYER PIPES – FOCUSED ON PRODUCTIVITY AND HIGH PERFORMANCE ...... 1087 Sergio Qem Penich, Carla Sautchuk, Carlos Francisco Lara, Walter Lopes
FLEXGAS AND HYBRIDS - GAS BOILERS IN COMBINATION WITH ELECTRICAL HEAT UNITS...... 1093 Jonas Hoen, Karsten Frederiksen, Ianina Mofid
ENERGY CONVERGENCE AND MARKETING
HYDROGEN GAS PRODUCTION IN A STAND-ALONE WIND FARM IN STATIONS OF NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION LINES ...... 1103 Mohammad Naziry Kordkandy
A METHOD FOR INCREMENT (KEEPING) SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ON REFINERY ELECTRICAL NETWORK...... 1112 Mehdi Abdollahian
MICROBIAL FUEL CELL AS NEW SOURCES FOR TRADITIONAL SOURCE OF ENERGY ...... 1120 Mostafa Rahimnejad, M. Mashkour
POWER GENERATION IN GPRS OF COMPRESSOR STATION...... 1130 Behnam Mirzaei, Abdolrahim Najmi, Amir Asghari, Mohammad Reza Goodarzi
NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION AND EVALUATION OF ENERGY SAVING FACTOR IN IRANIAN RESIDENTIAL AND POWER PLANT SECTOR ...... 1138 Mehdi Davoudi, Iraj Khoramdel, Masoud Hassani
BENEFITS OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE FOR BRAZILIAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR...... 1146 Luisa Franca, Bernardo Bezerra
A NEW METHOD FOR EVALUATING DYNAMIC RESERVES IN HETEROGENEOUS CARBONATE GAS RESERVOIRS - A CASE STUDY OF M GAS RESERVOIR...... 1153 Chunmei Zou, Xiaohua Liu, Hualin Liu
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUM-PRESSURE GAS PRESSURE DIFFERENCE POWER GENERATION SYSTEM...... 1160 Atsushi Nakamura, Naoto Imada, Yutaka Okimoto
ENERGY-EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF GREEN HYDROGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE TO METHANE...... 1169 Ronny Dietrich, Hartmut Krause, Ronny Erler, Robert Manig, Christoph Birkner
HYDROGEN AS CLIMATE-FRIENDLY ENERGY SOURCE PRODUCED BY FERMENTATIVE MICROORGANISM ...... 1176 Robert Manig, Ronny Erler, Hartmut Krause, Sophie Hiller
METHAGT©: AN ADVANCED MODEL TO OPTIMIZE THE GREEN GAS PRODUCTION OF THE METHANISATION SITES...... 1183 Olivier Guerrini, Zacaria Reddad, Camal Rahmouni, Olga Oliveti-Selmi, Marine Juge
NATURAL CONVECTION OF SILVER OXIDE-NANOFLUIDS OVER VERTICAL FLAT PLATE WITH UNIFORM HEAT FLUX ...... 1192 Zainali Omid, Shafii Mohamad Behshad
IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGES (CAES) FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL GAS USAGE FOR POWER GENERATION ...... 1193 Vladislav Karasevich, Ildar Sultanguzin, Aleksander Fedyukhin, Alexander Chernykh
DYNAMIC SIMULATION AND EVALUATION OF RENEWABLE HYDROGEN SUPPLY CHAINS TO A REFINERY ...... 1199 Lisa Andresen, Carsten Bode, Gerhard Schmitz
ENERGY OPTIMIZATION ON HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORK USING PINCH TECHNOLOGY AT GAS TREATMENT UNIT OF BID BOLAND GAS REFINING COMPANY (BGRC) ...... 1209 Mehdi Sahraei, Sayed Ali Ashrafizadeh, Mohammad Hayat Davoodi
LNG RE-GASIFICATION TERMINALS: THE ROLE OF LOCATION FACTORS IN TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ...... 1219 Randeep Agarwal, Thomas Rainey, Richard Brown, S. M. Ashrafur Rahman
MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF COMPRESSION REFRIGERATION CYCLE OF UNIT 132 SOUTH PARS REFINERIES ...... 1225 Alireza Sheibani Tezerji
ORGANIZING THE HEAT SUPPLY OF PIG FARMS BY USING COMBINATION OF BIOGAS/NATURAL GAS ...... 1236 Vladislav Karasevich, Alexander Chernykh, Eugeniya Tischenko
EUROPE MOVES TOWARDS INDUSTRIALIZATION OF 2G BIOMETHANE FROM BIOMASS GASIFICATION AND METHANATION ...... 1242 Olivier Guerrini, Elodie Le Cadre, Alessandra Barba, Maxence Gaillard, Isabelle Moretti, Evert Mollema, Sietse Wijinstra, Arthur Peltenburg, Thijs De Vries, Henrik Forsgren, I. Gunnarsson, M. Van't Hoff, Y. Kara, M. Ourliac, M. Overwijk, G. Peureux, F. Tengberg
COMBINED PRODUCTION OF COOLING, HEATING AND POWER (CCHP) BY USING A NATURAL GAS FUELD GAS TURBINE IN A GAS REFINARY COMPANY...... 1244 Soran Majidi, Masood Ebrahimi
INDUSTRIAL GAS UTILIZATION
INVESTIGATION ABSORPTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE INTO AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF METHYL DI ETHANOLAMINE AND BLENDS OF MONO ETHANOLAMINE WITH METHYL DI ETHANOLAMINE...... 1250 M. Atef, H. Azadmanesh, H. Zabihi
A COMPARISON OF SULFINOL SOLVENT PERFORMANCE WITH AMINE SOLVENTS TO SEPARATE MERCAPTAN CONTENT IN ONE THE IRANIAN GAS REFINERY ...... 1258 Zakarya Kamali, Isa Heydari, Mojtaba Moshtael
USING SULFINOL-M SOLVENT TO DECREASE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND INCREASE ACID GASES REMOVING IN THE SOUR NATURAL GAS SWEETENING PROCESS ...... 1259 Mehdi Garmsiri, Mahdi Kheirinik, Isa Heidari, Mojtaba Moshtael
COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION TO OPTIMIZE FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS DURING DRM- FTS-CDH PROCESS FOR MAXIMIZING THE ULTRA FUEL SELECTIVITY ...... 1266 Majid Srakari, Aran Alaie Sheikhrobat, Hooman Haghighi, Behnaz Jamshidi
MODIFICATION OF STABILIZER COLUMN WITH STRUCTURED PACKING: EXPERIMENTAL, SIMULATION AND FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS...... 1268 Majid Srakari, Ali Reza Ashoori, Masood Haghighi Asl
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FINDING THE OPTIMUM PARAMETERS IN MERCAPTAN REMOVAL PROCESS FROM GAS CONDENSATES BY ABSORPTIVE FILTRATION METHOD...... 1271 Atef Mohammad Masoud, Azadmanesh Hasan, Sarkari Majid
STUDY OF PARAMETERS INFLUENCING THE REACTION FURNACE TEMPERATURE IN SULFUR RECOVERY PLANT...... 1272 Azam Minabi, Hamid Ganji, Seyed Javad Ahmadpanah, Hamed Naderi
SYNGAS PRODUCTION BY METHANE OXY-STEAM REFORMING ON M/ZNLAALO4 (M = RU, PT, NI) CATALYSTS LINED ON CORDIERITE MONOLITHS...... 1279 Farzad Bahadoran, Yasin Khani, Akbar Zamanian, Yahya Zamani
NOVEL FIXED-BED REACTOR CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE GTL PROCESS...... 1287 Hadi Ebrahimi, Akbar Zamaniyan, Shabir Mousavi, Yahya Zamani
DEVELOPMENT OF GAS BURNERS FOR LARGE SCALE ROTARY KILN ...... 1296 Tomohiro Inoue
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE MICRO-CHP SYSTEM DEDICATED TO RESIDENTIAL MARKET RESULT AND EXPERIENCES FROM AN EXISTING FRENCH INDIVIDUAL HOUSE FIELD TEST...... 1302 Cristian Muresan, Karim Djama, Patrick Robinet, Toshiyuki Sato
THE EFFECT OF OPERATING CONSTRAINTS ON COMBINED HEAT AND POWER INTEGRATION IN GTL PLANT ...... 1310 Reza Hayati, Hadi Ebrahimi, Akbar Zamanian, Saeid Zarrinpashneh
INVESTIGATION OF LIQUID FUEL PRODUCTION IN MONOLITHIC REACTORS USING CFD MODELING...... 1318 Mohammad Irani, Akbar Zamanyian, Saied Zarrinpashne
REDUCING THE CHLORIDE IONS AND HEAT STABLE SALTS IN THE PURIFICATION CYCLE OF METHYL DI ETHANOL AMINE SOLUBLE USING THE ION EXCHANGE PILOT M800 IN THE FIRST REFINERY OF SOUTH PARS GAS COMPLEX ...... 1328 Atef Mohammad Masoud, Azadmanesh Hasan, Salimi Abdollah
DESIGN AND EMPLOYMENT OF A DUAL FUEL SYSTEM TO A GENSET GROUP ...... 1329 Joao Marcelo Romano, Murilo Fonseca, Renato Ferreira Simao, Ivan Carlos Carneiro Da Rocha
DIAGNOSIS OF A NATURAL GAS ENERGY SYSTEM OF CASTING AND HEAT TREATMENT PROCESSES...... 1335 Joao Marcelo Romano, Max Hermann, Orlando Preti, Ivan Carlos Carneiro Da Rocha
VOLUME 3
ENERGY EFFICIENCY APPLIED TO FURNACES OF CRYSTALS INDUSTRY ...... 1342 Antonio Rogerio Machado Junior, Vicente De Paulo Nicolau, Renato Oba, Talita Sauter Possamai, Raul Andres Puentes Beltran, Edemar Morsch Filho, Flavia Bello Artuso
THERMAL STUDY OF TRANSFERRING LIQUID METAL GUTTERS...... 1350 Antonio Rogerio Machado, Andre Dias Ferraz, Ivan Carneiro Da Rocha, Vicente De Paulo Nicolau, Renato Oba, Talita Sauter Possamai, Edevaldo Brandilio Reinado, Joao Marcelo Romano
E&P AND STORAGE
MOST RECENT EARTH REMOTE SENSING DATA: A CONTRIBUTION INTO EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR ...... 1355 Vitaly Cherkasov, Ekaterina Denisevich, Maxim Vanyarkho
PORE STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTIC - KEY SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM RESEARCH ON CHINA SOUTHERN MARINE SHALE ...... 1364 Honglin Liu, Wei Guo
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CFD MULTIPHASE SIMULATION MODEL ON LNG STORAGE TANK VALIDATED BY EXPERIMENTS AND ACTUAL OPERATION DATA OF LNG RECEIVING TERMINALS, TO IMPROVE SAFETY, FLEXIBILITY AND REDUCE COSTS ...... 1370 Kazuo Koyama, Ken Hosoya, Masatada Kobayashi
THE URENGOYSKOYE FIELD: INNOVATIVE ENERGY-SAVING AND ECOFRIENDLY TECHNOLOGIES ...... 1380 Vladimir Kobychev, Igor Ignatov, Alexander Koryakin
PREFERENTIAL SEEPAGE MECHANISM OF GAS AND WATER INSIDE THE MICRO-NANO PORE THROATS OF TIGHT SANDSTONE ...... 1388 Xizhe Li, Yong Hu, Chunyan Jiao, Yujin Wan, Xuan Xu
CO2-FOAM FRACTURING IMPROVES PRODUCTION IN TIGHT-GAS FORMATION, CHINA ...... 1398 Zhanwei Yang, Yaoyao Duan, Mingguang Che
RANKING OF CANDIDATES OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE STRUCTURES UNDER UNCERTAINTIES USING SIMULATION- CASE STUDY, WEST OF IRAN ...... 1399 Amir Abbas Askari, Turaj Behrouz, Hamid Bonyad
GAS STORAGE FACILITIES PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION USING COUPLED SURFACE AND RESERVOIR MODELS: APPLICATION TO CHEMERY UGS...... 1409 Arnaud Lange, Gregory Lebrun, Vincent Seignole, Emmanuel Freitag, Anne Laure Sainmont
GAS SPACE UTILIZATION OF FLOODED UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE DURING CYCLE INJECTION-WITHDRAWAL OPERATION ...... 1417 Lei Shi, Longyi Shao, Jieming Wang, Huayin Zhu
A NOTABLE APPROACH TO REDUCE POLLUTION BY USING TAIL GAS TREATMENT PROCESS ...... 1426 Azam Minabi, Hamid Reza Mehdipoor, Majid Kakavand, Hamid Ganji
RESEARCH ON THE LOW FLOW BACK RATE OF FRACTURING FLUID IN MARINE SHALE...... 1427 Haiyan Wang, Yongjun Lu, Limei Guo, Jiaquan Wu, Xinbin Yi
IMPROVING THE PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE IN OIL PRODUCTS AND GAS LIQUIDS STORAGE TANKS BY NANO-SILICA...... 1437 Mostafa Hesari, Hamid Reza Sediqi
A COMPREHENSIVE HIERARCHICAL METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE SITES SELECTION...... 1438 Turaj Behrouz, Amirabas Askari, Hamid Bonyad
SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF NEW CO2 FOAM FRACTURING TECHNOLOGY IN TIGHT SAND GAS RESERVOIR ...... 1447 Yun Xu, Yaoyao Duan, Yongjun Lu, Xiaohui Qiu, Liwei Wang, Zhanwei Yang
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT GENERATED DURING SHALE GAS OPERATIONS...... 1454 Anna Krol, Ewa Kukulska Zajac, Andrea Vieth Hillebrand
THE HISTORY OF UGS STRACHOCINA INVESTMENT AS AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESS ACHIEVED BY COOPERATION BETWEEN HIGH TECHNOLOGY WESTERN COMPANY AND POLISH OIL AND GAS COMPANIES...... 1455 Bogdan Filar, Mariusz Miziolek, Tadeusz Kwilosz, Marcin Pojnar, Marek Piaskowy, Anthony Free
SIMULTANEOUS CONSTRUCTING OF PHASE DIAGRAM AND HYDRATE STABILITY CURVE FOR AN IRANIAN GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIR ...... 1456 Ali Asghar Gharesheikhlou, Saeed Abbasi, Mojtaba Amiri
INTRODUCING A NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD FOR EFFICIENT PINPOINTING OF MINIMUM MISCIBLE PRESSURE PARAMETER ...... 1465 Ali Asghar Gharesheikhlou, Saber Mohammadi, Saeed Abbasi
THE HYDRAULIC FRACTURE TEST SITE (HFTS) A WEST TEXAS RESEARCH EXPERIMENT FOR NEW HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TECHNOLOGY IN THE WOLFCAMP FORMATION...... 1466 Kent Perry, Jordan Ciezobka, Debotyam Maity, Sarah Eisenlord
USAGE OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE TO ENHANCE NATURAL GAS SECURITY OF SUPPLY IN BRAZIL...... 1476 Tobias Vieira Alvarenga, Eduardo Frizzera Carvalho
GAS DRIVEN MOBILITY
APPLICATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES IN LNG PRODUCTION AT GDS ...... 1483 Oleg L. Mishin
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF GRAFFENE NANOSTRUCTURES ON THE INDUCTION TIME OF NATURAL GAS HYDRATE FORMATION ...... 1493 Hamid Bonyad, Ahmad Ghozatloo, Marziyeh Zare
COMPARISON OF LNG MEASUREMENT METHODS FOR SMALL SCALE APPLICATIONS: STATIC VS. DYNAMIC SYSTEMS...... 1495 Concepcion Rabinal, Francisco Javier Lezaun, Suzana Sanz
GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION
COST ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION PIPELINES ...... 1505 Mohammadreza Hassanpour, Ehsan Baniasadi
G4M : MULTISENSOR TOOL TO DETECT BURRIED NETWORKS IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY...... 1515 Michel Hardy, Elodie Rousset, Bruno Raguin, Jean-Antoine Beal
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF THE OCCURRENCE OF CRACKS AND HOT CORROSION-LIKE FAILURES IN AISI 310 FLARE TIPS WITHIN SOUTH PARS GAS COMPLEX ...... 1525 Askar Soltani, Koorosh Farzanfar, Reza Zareie
MONITORING FUGITIVE METHANE EMISSIONS UTILIZING ADVANCED SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SENSOR TECHNOLOGY ...... 1533 Paul Wehnert, James C. Rutherford, Michael B. Frish
WATER INFLUX PATTERNS IN KELA 2 GAS FIELD, KUQA DEPRESSION ...... 1541 Zhaolong Liu
CORROSION INHIBITION OF SOME SULFUR-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS IN AMINE ABSORBENTS USED FOR CO2 REMOVAL...... 1546 Jaber Neshati, Mohammad Naser Kakaei, Hamed Hoseiny, Tahereh Poursaberi
CORROSION INHIBITION PERFORMANCE OF SOME SULFUR-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS IN AMINE ABSORBENTS USED FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL...... 1547 Jaber Neshati, Mohammad Naser Kakaei, Hamed Hoseiny, Tahereh Poursaberi
IMPLEMENTATION OF LASER MARKING FOR TRACKING GAS PIPES IN TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS BY OPTIMIZING STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS ...... 1548 Ebrahim Mohseni Homagerani, Meysam Rasooly
INVESTIGATION OF PIGGING DYNAMICS IN GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW PIPELINES ...... 1554 Majid Sarkari, Behnaz Jamshidi
ORFEUS : OPERATIONAL RADAR FOR EVERY DRILL STRING UNDER THE STREET ...... 1557 Michel Hardy, Pascal Aussant, Bruno Raguin, Jean Antoine Beal
TOOL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR LEAK TESTING OF GAS ELECTROFUSION POLYETHYLENE COUPLER BY VACUUM METHOD...... 1565 Ebrahim Mohseni, Rasoul Tarkesh Esfahani, Farzad Abbasian
PRESENTING A CRITICALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR IRANIAN GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY...... 1573 Mohammad Eghbali, Reza Mohammadi Ardehali
A NEW METHOD FOR DETERMINING OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO T- BUTYL MERCAPTAN(USING FOR NATURAL GAS ODORIZING); A CASE STUDY IN IRAN ...... 1581 Hakime Nouri Parkestani, Ghobad Azizi
LIFETIME ASSESMENT OF THE DANISH PE-DISTRIBUTION GRID...... 1587 Betina Jorgensen, Karsten Hojlund
DEVELOPMENT OF MINI LNG TECHNOLOGHY IN IRAN ...... 1588 Shahrokh Zandieh Vakili, Hamid Bonyad, Marziyeh Zare
REMOTE AREA ENERGY SUPPLY BY MINI-LNG PLANTS IN I.R.IRAN ...... 1589 Shahrokh Zandieh Vakili, Marziyeh Zare, Saeed Pakseresht, Mehran Sarmad
A THEORETICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF FLOW COATING ON ALLOWABLE FLOW RATE IN GAS PIPELINES ...... 1599 Hossein Amooie, Behzad Babazadeh, Mostafa Ebrahimi, Neda Eshraghi
SAFETY DISTANCE ESTIMATION OF HIGH PRESSURE GAS PIPELINE USING RISK-BASED APPROACH...... 1600 Hossein Amooie, Mostafa Ebrahimi Moghaddam, Neda Eshraghi
EVALUATION OF RESISTANCE TO THIRD PARTY ATTACKS OF PLASTIC PIPES ...... 1611 Hiroto Taguchi, Kaori Numata, Hideto Kurokawa
POLYPYRROLE-BASED PH-SENSOR FOR MONITORING CATHODIC PROTECTION OF BURIED PIPELINES ...... 1620 Ahmed Fakhry, Catherine Debiemme-Chouvy, Elisabeth Fleury, Veronique Vasseur, Sylbain Fontaine
USING THE NATURAL GAS NETWORK FOR HYDROGEN TRANSPORT - TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ...... 1627 Henrik Iskov, Stephan Kneck
SIMPLE EQUATION FOR THE CALCULATION OF LNG DENSITY FROM COMPOSITION ...... 1636 Andrew Laughton
ON THE EVALUATION OF ODORANT CONCENTRATION DEVIATION IN GAS DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS...... 1644 Diego Rodrigo Martins, Sergio Henrique Guimaraes De Paula, Simone Kioko Toyonaga Kayano
METHODOLOGY FOR CAPACITY CALCULATION APPLIED TO THE BRAZILIAN NATURAL GAS PIPELINE NETWORK...... 1654 Philipe Barroso Krause, Luis Fernando Goncalves Pires, Patricia Mannarino Silva, Almir Beserra Dos Santos
MODIFIED FILTRATION PROCEDURE FOR MEG REGENERATION UNIT BASED ON INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSES ON DEPOSITED PRECIPITATIONS: A CASE STUDY...... 1663 Behzad Ajamian, Maral Ajamian, Amin Ahmadi, Narges Bafekr Shirvan
ANALYSIS OF MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE HYDROGEN CONTENT IN NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINE ...... 1670 Woosik Kim, Cheolman Kim, Seunghun Nam
INTELLIGENT SHUTOFF DEVICE TO REDUCE THE RISK OF LINE BREAKS CAUSED BY THIRD PARTY DAMAGE ...... 1678 Dennis Jarnecke
INVESTIGATION ON VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS: PLATE TYPES, FOULING, CORROSION, THERMAL AND HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE OF PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS IN GAS REFINERY...... 1679 Hamid Reza Fazli Shahri, Ramezan Ali Mahdavinejad, Hamid Bahoush, Alireza Sheybani
BREAKAWAY FITTING TO ENHANCE GAS SYSTEM SAFETY ...... 1688 Dennis Jarnecke
ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAY EVALUATION OF THE INTEGRITY OF POLYETHYLENE PIPING SYSTEMS...... 1689 Dominique Gueugnaut, Manuel Tessier, Aymeric Lopitaux, Romuald Bouaffre, Florent Angelini
LIVE VIDEO INSPECTION OF POLYETHYLENE NETWORKS TO OPTIMIZE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ...... 1700 Pascal Aussant, Gilles Garneret, Patrick Louet
THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR GAS SMART METERS IN JAPAN ...... 1709 Yuji Watanabe, Takuya Kawata, Masahiro Yasui, Kazuhiro Nishiguchi
DESIGN COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE HYDROCARBON AND WATER DEW POINT TEMPERATURE OF NATURAL GAS ...... 1714 Mousazadeh Reza, Habibi Zad Novin Ahmad
MOBILITY TECHNOLOGY USE FOR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVEMENT OF ASSET MANAGEMENT IN BOLIVIA-BRAZIL GAS PIPELINE...... 1720 Rogerio Orlandeli Sanches, Marcos Aurelio De Moraes
BETTER IDENTIFICATION OF GAS LEAKAGE BY LEARNING THE SMELL OF ODORANTS...... 1729 Kerstin Kroeger, Frank Graf, Wolfgang Koppel
FUTURISTIC GAS NETWORK REGISTER...... 1730 Bruno Anici, Silvio Tomaz, Edson Moro, Matheus Ferreira
SMART GRIDS MATURITY LEVEL ANALYSIS AND ROADMAP FOR NATURAL GAS NETWORKS IN METROPOLITAN CITIES: A CASE STUDY FOR ISTANBUL/TURKEY...... 1732 Cevat Ozarpa, Huseyin Biyikci, Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir
INTRINSICALLY LOCATABLE PE PIPE ...... 1740 Dennis Jarnecke, Ed Scott
LNG TERMINAL EXPANSION PROJECTS THROUGH COST EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS BASED ON QUANTITATIVE RELIABILITY ANALYSIS ...... 1741 Tobias Vieira Alvarenga, Guilherme Gonzalez, Carolina Sepulveda, Flavio Cubillos
GAS PIPELINE AND POWER PLANT ROUTE SELECTION EVALUATION...... 1750 Almir Beserra Dos Santos, Erika Christina Ashton Nunes Chrisman
NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF LIQUEFACTION AND SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION ON BURIED GAS PIPELINES...... 1757 Masoud Samadian Zakaria, Khosrow Bargi, Reza Dezvareh
VAPOR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIA FOR CH4/H2 SYSTEM AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE AND LOW PRESSURE ...... 1765 Wensheng Lin, Minfei Hu, Anzhong Gu
EVALUATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE GAS PIPELINE REPAIR, WITH COMPOSITE LAYERS DUE TO CREATING A DUMMY DEFECT BY HYDROSTATIC TEST...... 1766 Amin Taghavi
THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE DIAPHRAGM GAS METERS SELECTION METHOD WHILE PURCHASING ...... 1771 Pawel Kulaga, Jacek Jaworski, Jacek Matusik
FEASIBILITY STUDY OF USING FULL COMPOSITE PIPES IN DISTRIBUTING AND TRANSMISSION NATURAL GAS PIPELINES...... 1781 Gholam Abbas Hosseini, Hormoz Behrouzi, Amir Hashemi, Ali Aghanouri
SURVEYING THE EFFECTIVE FACTORS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE: THE CASE OF BOUSHEHR PROVINCE GAS COMPANY...... 1788 Saeed Abbasi
LNG CARRIERS BOIL-OFF GAS OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT DECISION-SUPPORT TOOL DEVELOPMENT...... 1796 Marc Perrin, Gabrielle Menard, Ksenia Goloubeva, Michel Benbelgacem, Pierreyves Duclos, Frederic Legrand, Ksenia Goloubeva
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF REPAIRING OF GAS TRANSMISSION PIPES USING COMPOSITE MATERIAL ...... 1806 Mohammad Ali Daneshi
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF UPS CABINET IN THE ELECTRIC POWER SUBSTION OF LNG RECEIVING TERMINAL ...... 1814 Joonho Kim, Seongkyeong Hong, Wonmok Choi, Younghyo Park
THE MONITORING SYSTEM OF A PIPELINE FOR PROTECTION FROM THIRD-PART INTRUSION ...... 1824 Jaepil Koh, Jungmin Chae
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEXT GENERATION ULTRASONIC GAS SMART METER FOR DOMESTIC CUSTOMERS...... 1831 Yoichi Ikeda, Takashi Oowaku, Akiharu Asada, Yudai Masuda, Kazuhiro Nishiguchi, Takuya Fukasawa
OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION OF A SMALL SCALE LNG SUPPLY CHAIN DECISION-SUPPORT TOOL DEVELOPMENT...... 1840 Marc Perrin, Michel Benbelgacem, Amna Mhadhebi, Frederic Legrand
SLOW CRACK GROWTH EVALUATION OF VINTAGE POLYETHYLENE PIPES ...... 1847 Edward Johnston, Ernest Lever
SURGE ACTIVE CONTROL OF A GAS COMPRESSOR IN THE GAS BOOSTING STATION...... 1848 Abdolrahim Najmi, Amir Asghari, Behnam Mirzaei
SIMULATION AND OPERATION ANALYZE OF GAS PRESSURE DROP STATION (CGS) REGULATORS WITH COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD)...... 1849 Ehsan Hakimi, Parinaz Soleimani
REDUCING THIRD-PARTY DAMAGE IN THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY USING REAL-TIME GIS AND SENSORS...... 1856 Robert Marros, Jason Sphar, Saurav Acharya
ELEMENTAL SULFUR DEPOSITION - SUCESSFULL CASES OF MITIGATION IN NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINES...... 1865 Jose Schuwa Kasai Nicioka, Rogerio Da Silva Pacheco, Daniela Muccillo Correa, Nancy Flora Alves Pinto, Marco Antonio De Oliveira, Tarcildo Fernandes Costa
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS PRESENT IN BIOGAS AND BIO- METHANE FROM LANDFILLS AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND ITS IMPACTS TO THE USERS OF THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK...... 1873 Marco Antonio Coutinho, Diego Ceccarini Castilho, Alessandro Oliveira P. Bruno
UNACCOUNTED-FOR GAS IMPACTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MITIGATING IT IN IRAN...... 1882 Elham Kamrani, Saeed Pakseresht, Sayed Amir Faraghzadeh, Mohammd Zarghami
DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME TSUNAMI-INUNDATION PREDICTION SYSTEM USING OBSERVATION VALUE OF GPS WAVE GAUGE CONTRIBUTING TO CITY GAS BLOCK SUPPLY STOP JUDGMENT DURING A LARGE-SCALE EARTHQUAKE...... 1892 Tetsuji Kitano, Ikuo Abe, Norimi Mizutani
MANAGEMENT OF INTERMITTENT & NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY BY HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR FOR THE VALORIZATION OF CO2 IN FLEXIBLE ENERGIES: AN INNOVATIVE PATHWAY FOR THE POWER TO GAS CHAIN ...... 1902 Sandra Capela, Myriam De Saint-Jean, Marie Petitjean, Peter Pfeifer, Eric Dubois, Magdalena Dudek
ASSET MANAGEMENT CHANGE OR TRANSFORMATION IGDAS AM JOURNEY...... 1903 Ugur Usta, Gafur Sencan, Cevat Ozarpa
INTELLIGENT CONDITION MONITORING FOR FAILURE DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY EQUIPMENT FOR PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ...... 1909 Sadegh Khodaveisi, Sina Ezzati, Karim Salahshoor
WHO WILL OPERATE THE SMART GRID?...... 1916 Said Murad Serhan Seralioglu
IGDAS R&D ACTIVITIES IN NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SECTOR EXAMPLE PROJECT: VODO- REMOTE VALVE CONTROL IN VALVE CHAMBERS...... 1917 Suat Arapoglu, Yusuf Ziya Yavuz
ADDITIONAL PAPERS
TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY OF FLUE GAS INJECT AS EOR METHOD IN AN IRANIAN OIL FIELD...... 1918 Mahdi Z. Hasanvand, Sara S. Behbahani, Hassan S. Behbahani, Ali A. Gharesheikhloo
EXPERIENCE CURVE FOR NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION BY HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ...... 1928 Rokuhei Fukui, Carl Greenfield
APPLICATION OF NEW CALORIMETRIC METHODS FOR RESERVOIR FLUIDAL SYSTEMS STUDY ...... 1935 Valery M. Buleiko, Boris A. Grigoriev, Vladimir A. Istomin
INNOVATIVE REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DISTURBED AND POLLUTED SOILS AND GROUNDS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR NORTH ...... 1946 Oleg Arno, Anatoly Arabsky, Vladimir Bashkin, Rauf Galiulin, Alexander Gideon
+ MEMBRANE CAPSULES WITH ZEOLITE Y AND AG IONS AS NOVEL ADSORBENTS FOR CO2 SEPARATION...... 1947 Gholamreza Khanpour, Arash Yunessnia Lehi, Mojtaba Khanpour, Mohammadhasan Seifi
THE EFFECT OF SELECTING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT SUITED TO LOAD IN EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL GAS PRESSURE COMPRESSOR STATIONS ...... 1953 Morteza Pournajaf Layegh, Shahabodin Zarrinkamar, Reza Kouroshi
IDENTIFY FACTORS AFFECTING THE EMOTIONAL AGILITY EXPERTS AND MANAGERS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR (CASE STUDY: ISFAHAN GAS CORPORATIONS MANAGE REGIONAL GAS TRANSMISSION OPERATIONS) ...... 1961 N/A
BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS FROM WASTEWATER SALINE REFINERY BY USING TWO SYSTEMS MBR USBF ...... 1962 Abolfazl Delashoob, Kambiz Seffati, Bizhan Honarvar
INTRODUCING TWO NEW FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS OF RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF WELD DEFECTS...... 1977 Shokrollah Mohammadinia
DETERMINATION OF SAFETY DISTANCE AROUND THE HIGH PRESSURE GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINES USING NUMERICAL METHODS ...... 1983 Omid Adibi, Bijan Farhanieh, Hossein Afshin, Ali Golara, Hamid Bonyad
COMBINED ANALYSIS OF COUPLED GAS AND ELECTRICITY NETWORKS FOR FUTURE ENERGY SUPPLY...... 1989 Muditha Abeysekera, Meysam Qadrdan, Ahmad Rafiee, Jianzhong Wu
A MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF NATURAL GAS PIPELINES BY TRANSMISSION OF HYDROGEN ...... 1997 Morteza Ghasemi
DETERMINING THE MINIMUM MISCIBILITY PRESSURE (MMP) OF CARBON DIOXIDE WITH HYDROGEN SULFIDE IMPURITY IN ONE OF THE OIL FIELDS IN SOUTHWEST IRAN ...... 2004 Razieh Mohammadi Nezhad, Jamshid Moghadasi
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