(144c) Renewable Energy to Synthetic Natural Gas Pipeline

Due to increasing concerns about global warming, the industry has constantly been looking for alternative technologies to minimize carbon emissions to the environment. The utilization of renewable energy, such as wind turbine power, solar energy, and others, has become essential and popular nowadays.

In previous studies, we proposed an approach to take advantage of green hydrogen and captured CO2 to produce Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) by the Sabatier reaction. When the SNG is not used nearby the production facility, transportation becomes another potential source of carbon emissions.

This paper studies the pipeline design to transport Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) inland in places like North America, South America, and Eurasia. We modeled a 1,000 km to 10,000 km SNG pipeline using CHEMCAD simulation software. The result of this study shows close to zero emissions to the atmosphere.