Gas making and natural gas / British Petroleum Company.
By: British Petroleum Company.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : British Petroleum Co. Ltd, 1972Description: viii, 305 p. : leaf. illus., (1 col). ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Gas manufacture and works | Natural gasDDC classification: 665.7Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 665.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00046647 |
Bibliography: (pages 286-294) and index.
Part One: Gas making from solid, liquid and gaseous feedstocks -- Introduction -- Town gas, synthesis gas, commercial hydrogen and their characteristics -- Materials available for gas making -- Carbonization and the application of liquid hydrocarbons to carbonizing plants -- Gasification of solid fuels -- Carburetted-Water-Gas process -- Oil gasification and hydrogen-Gas Reforming: Thermal-Cracking processes -- Oil gasification and hydrocarbon-gas reforming: Catalytic processes -General principles -- Oil gasification and hydrocarbon-gas reforming: Cyclic catalytic processes -- Oil gasificationand hydrocarbon-gas reforming: Continuous catalytic steam reforming -- Oil gasification and hydrocarbon-gas reforming: Partial-Combustion processes -- Oil gasification and hydrocarbon-gas reforming: the non-catalytic hydrogasification of hydrocarbon oils -- Miscellaneous processes -- Gas-manufacture costs -- Part Two: Natural gas -- Introduction -- The origins and characteristics of natural gas -- The purification of natural gas -- The liquefaction of natural gas -- Natural-gas transmission and distribution -- Natural-gas storage -- Applications of natural gas and other gaseous fuels in industry -- Part Three: The effect of load variation and feedstock or natural-gas availability on the techniques of gas manufacture and natural-gas supply -- Gas output load-variations and their effect on gas production -- The modern trend in the selection of gas-making processes in areas beyond the economic transmission range of natural gas -- The modern trend in gas-supply techniques based on abundant natural gas.