An Initial Study on the Use of Membranes for Hydrocarbons Recovery from Shuttle Tankers during Crude Oil Transportation

DOI

10.2991/cas-15.2015.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

membrane technology; permeance; transport mechanism; lower hydrocarbons.

Abstract

There are new remote deep-water oil fields that are being discovered and this makes the use of shuttle tankers more vital for the transport of crude oil to on shore and off shore refineries. The emissions from these tankers are studied and an alternative technology for the recovery of methane, propane and butane from carbon dioxide and other inert gases that are present in the emission is being explored by the use of membrane technology. This paper looks into the transport mechanism exhibited by an inorganic ceramic membrane with an – Al2O3 support. The –Al2O3 support showed permeance in the range of 10-5 mols-1m-2Pa-1 for CO2, Ar, N2 and He at 298 K.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gobina Edward
AU  - Shehu Habiba
AU  - Okon Edidiong
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - An Initial Study on the Use of Membranes for Hydrocarbons Recovery from Shuttle Tankers during Crude Oil Transportation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 AASRI International Conference on Circuits and Systems
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 154
EP  - 157
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cas-15.2015.37
DO  - 10.2991/cas-15.2015.37
ID  - Edward2015/08
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