Publisher's Synopsis
After the success of my first book in oil and gas processing, "Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Processing", I started to prepare this book to cover the area of gas field processing. About 4000 pages had been used in preparing this book.
Many references, books, and papers were used, but the major sources were:
Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Processing, Engineering Data Book, Surface Production Facilities part 1 & part 2, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Campbell, John M., ''Gas Conditioning and Processing, and Petroleum and Gas Field Processing ( Detailed are in book references).
The book is written mainly for engineering staff working in oil and gas industry and are interested in both theoretical and technical aspects regarding gas processing.
The book focuses on the practical aspects of gas processing that are valuable for engineers and technical staff, omitting parts and details that are rarely used.
I gratefully acknowledge to many individuals and organizations for their help and support in providing data and information.
The book includes the basics of physical properties of natural gas necessary to understand natural gas processing and process calculations. Items covered in the first chapter are gas molecular weight, density at operating conditions, heating value, compressibility factor, ..etc. The second chapter covers the basics of phase behavior. The third chapter covers a brief oil and gas separation, where a detailed oil and gas separation process were presented in the first book (Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Processing). The fourth chapter covers Natural gas hydrates, prediction and inhibition. The fifth chapter covers dehydration of natural gas. The sixth chapter covers natural gas sweetening and sulfur recovery. The seventh chapter covers hydrocarbon recovery.
