Sour Gas And Related Technologies

Seventeen papers from the May 2012 conference address the challenges of mining natural gas containing significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. Four process papers demonstrate mass transfer rate simulation for analyzing a virtual plant on a computer, commercial freeze zone technology for removing carbon dioxide, the DexPro process of dehydrating acid gas, and a thermodynamic model for predicting solid carbon dioxide formation during pressure drops. Five papers from China evaluate oilfield fluid processing schemes and potential sites for acid gas re-injection in China, model sulfur deposition during gas reservoir development, and compare methods for calculating the deviation factor for carbon dioxide rich gas reservoirs. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ying (Alice) Wu is currently the President of Sphere Technology Connection Ltd. (STC) in Calgary, Canada. From 1983 to 1999, she was an assistant professor and researcher at Southwest Petroleum Institute (now Southwest Petroleum University, SWPU) in Sichuan, China. She received her MSc in petroleum engineering from SWPU and her BSc in petroleum engineering from Daqing Petroleum University in Heilongjiang, China.

John J. Carroll, PhD, PEng, is the Director, Geostorage Process Engineering for Gas Liquids Engineering in Calgary, Canada. Dr. Carroll holds bachelor and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Alberta and New Brunswick in Canada. His fist book, Natural Gas Hydrates: A Guide for Engineers, is now in its second edition, and he is the author or coauthor of fifty technical publications and about forty technical presentations.

Weiyoa Zhu is Professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing in China and Adjunct Professor in State Key Lab of Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery at the Northeast Petroleum University. He has published more than 100 technical papers and authored six technical books. His research focus is on fluid mechanics in porous media, the theory and application of the multiphase flow for resource exploitation, new energy development, environmental fluid mechanics, and reservoir simulation.