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The removal of CO2 and N2 from natural gas: A review of conventional and emerging process technologies

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An overview of conventional and developing gas processing technologies for CO 2 and N 2 removal from natural gas is provided in this paper, where the authors consider process technologies based on absorption, distillation, adsorption, membrane separation and hydrates.
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This article is published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.The article was published on 2012-09-01. It has received 514 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acid gas & Pressure swing adsorption.

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A review of the hydrate based gas separation (HBGS) process for carbon dioxide pre-combustion capture

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the literature work done so far on the use of hydrate crystallization as a basis to develop data for the hydrate based gas separation (HBGS) process for the capture of CO2 from fuel gas mixtures is presented.
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Ionic liquid-based materials: a platform to design engineered CO2 separation membranes

TL;DR: A judicious assessment of the CO2 separation efficiency of different membranes is provided, and breakthroughs and key challenges in this field are highlighted.
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Cryogenic-based CO2 capture technologies: State-of-the-art developments and current challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, several CO2 capture strategies have been proposed to mitigate the issue of climate change caused by the utilization of fossil fuels, which is recognized as a primary option for mitigating the issue.
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Rapid methane hydrate formation to develop a cost effective large scale energy storage system

TL;DR: In this article, the tetrahydrofuran (THF) was used as a thermodynamic and kinetic promoter for methane hydrate formation in an unstirred tank reactor configuration.
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Harnessing Filler Materials for Enhancing Biogas Separation Membranes

TL;DR: This review comprehensively examines filler materials that are capable of enhancing the CO2/CH4 separation performance of polymeric membranes and introduces a new empirical metric, the "Filler Enhancement Index" ( Findex), to aid researchers in assessing the effectiveness of the fillers from a big data perspective.
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Triblock copolymer syntheses of mesoporous silica with periodic 50 to 300 angstrom pores

TL;DR: Use of amphiphilic triblock copolymers to direct the organization of polymerizing silica species has resulted in the preparation of well-ordered hexagonal mesoporous silica structures (SBA-15) with uniform pore sizes up to approximately 300 angstroms.
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A new family of mesoporous molecular sieves prepared with liquid crystal templates

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis, characterization, and proposed mechanism of formation of a new family of silicatelaluminosilicate mesoporous molecular sieves designated as M41S is described.
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Selective gas adsorption and separation in metal–organic frameworks

TL;DR: This critical review starts with a brief introduction to gas separation and purification based on selective adsorption, followed by a review of gas selective adsorbents in rigid and flexible MOFs, and primary relationships between adsorptive properties and framework features are analyzed.
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Clathrate hydrates of natural gases

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the properties of hydrates and ice with those of natural gas and showed the effect of thermodynamic inhibitors on the formation of hydrate formation and dissolution process.
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Applications of ionic liquids in the chemical industry

TL;DR: There have been parallel and collaborative exchanges between academic research and industrial developments since the materials were first reported in 1914, it is demonstrated.