Recent Conference Papers

Below is a selection of the most recently published pieces. Use the annual archives for a full list of conference papers.

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Biogas – A Never Ending Source of Natural Gas

Luisa Shelenko, Martin Brown, GL Noble Denton, UK


This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of the gas processing requirements for the upgrading of biogas for suitability of injection into the ...

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BIO Gas - Bring It On

Christian Riemann, BASF SE, Germany

“Green energy” has been playing an increasingly important role, politically, in recent years. It is no coincidence that the number of biogas plants built over ...

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BMW Doubles Output of Landfill “Gas to Energy” Project in South Carolina

Nathan Vetter, Cameron Compression, USA

This paper presents the challenges of corrosive landfill gas delivery to a power generation turbine, which requires oil free gas to ensure lowest emissions and ...

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An overview of Underground Coal Gasification, The Issues of Taking a New Technology to Market

Julie Lauder, UCG Association

Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is gathering momentum all over the world and is at last being recognised as truly viable clean coal technology with the potential ...

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Underground Coal Gasification in Europe – a road map for success

Rohan Courtney, Clean Coal Limited

Clean Coal Limited (“CCL”) is a UCG operator with projects around the world. CCL have been awarded five UCG offshore licences by the UK Coal ...

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Shale Gas in Europe: The significance of a new unconventional gas resource

Hans-Martin Schulz, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Shale Gas is an unconventional gas resource. Currently, about 8-10% of the domestic gas produced in the US comes from this ...

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Shale Gas and its future role in the European Energy Market

Dik Paul, Shell Upstream International – Europe

A gas company view of this unconventional gas source and its role in the European energy market.

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How Separations Technology Can Improve The Efficiency, Economics and Environmental Impact of The Exploitation of Unconventional Gas Sources

Doug Harris, Pall Europe

The need for sustainable development, combined in many cases with environmental issues, is driving advances in utilising gases from unusual sources as either fuel or as ...

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Purification Technology for CNG used in Road Transport

Matthew Humphrys, Johnson Matthey PLC,U.K.

CNG an ideal fuel for road transport vehicles. It produces less green house gas, much lower levels of harmful chemicals and no particulates ...

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Meeting new sulfur specification regulations in Austria

Nawid Kashani BASF SE, Germany

Austria’s gas quality regulation (ÖVGW G31) gives very strict specifications for the total sulfur content in natural gases to be fed into the national ...

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