National Gas Company SAOG partners with LPP Combustion LLC to bring revolutionary LPP gas into the Sultanate
National Gas Company SAOG, your energy partner in the GCC hosted the LPP team in the Sultanate recently. LPP Combustion, LLC , a Maryland-USA based company, has developed this technology called Lean Premixed Prevaporized (LPP) combustion, this technology converts variety of liquid fuels such as Naphtha, kerosene, diesel, biodiesel and ethanol into a synthetic natural gas. This LPP Gas can then be burned with very low emissions (lower or equal to Natural Gas) in virtually any combustion device in place of natural gas, providing users with substantial fuel flexibility. A DLE (dry oil emissions) gas turbine utilizing LPP Technology to burn biofuels creates a low emissions power plant with no net greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the cleanest use of renewable fuels. LPP Combustion recently received its second U.S. patent for technology that converts liquid fuels into a synthetic natural gas. For further details you may visit www.lppcombustion.com.
The LPP Combustion skid is a self-contained hardware that can be easily located near an existing natural gas-fired turbine. The skid receives a liquid fuel supply from existing storage tanks and transforms the fuel into LPP gas, which is then connected into the existing natural gas supply piping for the combustion turbine. The hardware skid consists of a unique fuel vaporizer designed and developed by LPP, and conventional compressors, heat exchangers, piping, valves, control hardware, and passive air separation membranes readily available in the marketplace. The LPP and NGC team held successful meetings with the Ministries during their visit to the Sultanate last week. Mr. Leo Eskin, Chief Technical Officer said that LPP has been successfully proven in US and has potential to meet the growing and flexible energy demand of this region.
The LPP technology has been tested on a variety of burners including commercial turbine hardware. Tests have been completed in a combustor at typical gas turbine temperatures and pressures using a test rig at a turbine manufacturer. The technology has proven viable, allowing stable operation under a variety of conditions while producing emissions on the same order as natural gas. Testing has also demonstrated that switching from natural gas to LPP gas is easily accomplished without interrupting the normal operations. This technology provides the flexibility of being able to choose between burning liquid fuel (LPP gas) or natural gas, depending upon the price and availability of the two fuels, while maintaining low pollutant emission levels. When liquid fuel cost is less than natural gas, substantial fuel cost savings can be realized. Through the use of financial models, the long term (multiple year) cost benefits derived from utilizing the LPP system can be projected. Mr. Goutam Sen, Chief Executive Officer, National Gas Company SAOG, said “ the LPP Gas will provide much needed fuel options to the industries of the Middle East and Asia Region.”
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National Gas is the sultanate’s largest LPG marketing company that has been reliably serving domestic and commercial consumers for over three decades. National Gas has been instrumental in bringing to Oman new developments in the field of clean energy and is continuously working with the local authorities to enhance the standards in the Omani LPG industry in Oman. It endeavors to deliver to its consumers and the nation at large a state of the art service quality which ensures high quality control implementation systems, and adopts advanced safety and optimization practices.
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