One the left, A/Prof Linga receiving the award certificate at the ICAE2019 Conference Banquet in Vasteras. On the right, the certificate issued by the publisher.
A paper published by NUS Engineering research team has been selected as recipient of Best Paper Awards by Applied Energy Journal. This constitutes the top 29 highly cited articles chosen by the Editor-in-Chief and publisher (Elsevier) among 3300+ articles published in 2016 and 2017 for their significant contribution to the journal’s impact. Applied Energy is a leading journal for applied research concerning energy and engineering fields of research with an Impact Factor of 8.43 and CiteScore of 9.54.
The ‘2019 Applied Energy Awards’ certificate was presented at the 11th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2019) in Vasteras, Sweden (11 to 15 August 2019).
Entitled Review of natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Prospects and challenges (Volume 107, pages 1633-1652), the award-winning paper was published in January 2016. It was co-authored by Dr. Zheng Rong Chong, Mr. She Hern Bryan Yang, Dr. Ponnivalavan Babu and supervised by Dean’s Chair Associate Professor Praveen Linga, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in collaboration with Professor Xiaosen Li of the Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China. The paper has been cited 354 times with an field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) of 40.24 (from Scopus database as of 16-Aug-2019).
Natural gas hydrates are ice-like solid compound formed by a combination of natural gas and water. They are abundantly available in nature and considered as a future resource for natural gas. The key reason for the interest on gas hydrates is that the natural gas stored in hydrate form is more than twice of that in conventional gas fields. This invited review paper provided a comprehensive background on gas hydrate research pertaining to energy recovery, including the resource estimates, recovery techniques, laboratory scale research as well as field trials, and highlighted the limitation and challenges to be overcome to realize energy recovery from hydrates.
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Review of natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Prospects and challenges: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191401318X
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