LNG brought revolution in Petroleum
industry
Written
by Renatus Mahuyu
Msc Oil and Natural Gas
Engineering
Mineral Resources Institute-DODOMA
Historical
Since
17th Century Robert Boyles experimented on the properties of gases where
he derived the inverse relationship between the pressure and the volume of gases,
respectively Guillaume Amontons also investigated on the effects of temperature
on gas.
In 1886 Karol Olszewski liquefied
methane, the primary constituent of natural gas. By 1900 all gases had been
liquefied except helium which was
liquefied in 1908
By definitions
LNG is the acronym for liquefied natural gas,
where Natural gas is 95% methane. Natural gas is actually the cleanest fossil
fuel in the global where during combustion of natural gas only water vapor and
small amounts of carbon dioxide is emitted, about 30 to 50%lower than other
combustible fuel like diesel and coal.
Liquefied
natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has
been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage
or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the
gaseous state (at standard conditions for temperature and pressure)
