Adsorbed natural gas storage and transportation vessels Vasiliev, L L; Kanonchik, L E; Mishkinis, D A; Rabetsky, M I [Porous Media Lab. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Belarus)] 42 ENGINEERING; 03 NATURAL GAS; ADSORPTION; NATURAL GAS; STORAGE; CARBON FIBERS; HEAT PIPES; ACTIVATED CARBON; DESORPTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT EXCHANGERS; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; CAPACITY Adsorbed natural gas (ANG) storage and transportation technology recently became competitive to compressed natural gas (CNG) method due to a high energy density capability achievements. New adsorbents such as monolithic carbons and recently compressed active carbon fibers used in non-cylindrical vessels have made possible to store the same capacity of gas as CNG tanks, but at much lower pressure. New types of gas tanks thermal control systems with internal source of energy input, based on heat pipe heat exchangers, make it possible to use different sources of energy (exhausted gases, wasted engine cooling liquids, solar and other types of energy) to stimulate gas desorption at constant rate of gas delivery and constant pressure (temperature) and avoid the drop of temperature in the storage tank due to the enthalpy of desorption. (authors) France 2000-12-01 English Journal Article Journal Name: International Journal of Thermal Sciences; Journal Volume: 39; Journal Issue: 9-11; Other Information: 11 refs.; PBD: Oct-Dec 2000 Medium: X; Size: page(s) 1047-1055 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0729(00)01178-9 [] 9-11 39 Journal ID: ISSN 1290-0729; TRN: FR0104444 FR; EDB-01:027632 2010-12-30 20144029