Creating Other Gas Products
Learn about cracker plants, compressed natural gas plants, fractionator plants, and liquifaction plants.
Learn about cracker plants, compressed natural gas plants, fractionator plants, and liquifaction plants.
Copper sulfide mines can cause severe impacts to drinking water aquifers, contamination of farmland, contamination and loss of fish and wildlife and their habitat, and risks to public health.
Frack “sand” is actually tiny pieces of quartz- silicon dioxide (SiO2) also known as silica sand. It is not garden variety sand found in your kids sandbox. Because it is special, it is found in only a few places. In the United States, that currently means in the Midwest near the Great Lakes. The Southeast corner of Minnesota and neighboring Wisconsin contain vast deposits of the most desirable highly spherical sand close to the surface.
Learn the processes and equipment used for separating gas, including dehydrators, cryogenic plants, gas processing units, gas sweetening plants, and tanks.
When first extracted, natural gas is a blend of methane; water; natural gas liquids (NGLs) such as ethane, butane, and propane; and condensate, …
Gas pipelines carry natural gas and propane from drilling areas to processing plants and markets. They are also known as transmission lines.