GRASYS Innovative Gas Separation Technologies Applications in Off-Shore Projects

CJSC Gas Separation Systems, Leninskaya Sloboda Street 19, Moscow, 115280 Telephone: (495) 989-20-47, Fax: (495) 543-94-92 info@grasys.ru , www.grasys.ru

About Company
CJSC GRASYS was founded in 2001 and has since proved itself the undoubted Russian and CIS leader in the field of non-cryogenic industrial gas separation plants development and manufacture. The focus on the most advanced technologies and the high level of company specialists proficiency enables the implementation of projects of any complexity level. Scientific research and developments are based on the close cooperation with the leading producers and best research centers in Russia and abroad.

GRASYS is staffed with the country leading specialists in gas separation technologies, candidates and doctors of physics and mathematics, as well as technical sciences.
The company is continuously searching for new technical and engineering solutions in the field of air separation and gas separation both in conventional processes (recovery of nitrogen and hydrogen) and in the emerging areas, which resulted in the development of membranes and plants for hydrocarbon gases separation.

Customers
The company has implemented more than 450 projects, including the unique plants in terms of their technical and performance characteristics designed for the major companies in the petroleum and petrochemical industries.

GRASYS industrial gas separation technologies Air separation

Technological processes

Nitrogen production

Hydrocarbons separation

Oxygen production

Hydrogen concentration

Nitrogen and Oxygen Plants and Stations

GRASYS manufactures and supplies membrane and adsorption plants for nitrogen and oxygen production from air designed for any industrial applications.

Nitrogen Capacity: 50nm3/hr to 5,000 nm3/hr Purity: up to 99.9995%

Oxygen Capacity: up to 3,000 m3/hr Purity: up to 95%

Hydrogen Plants

Adsorption hydrogen plants

Hydrogen purity up to 99.9995% Capacity up to 50,000 nm3/Hr

Membrane hydrogen plants

Hydrogen purity up to 99.5% Capacity up to 50,000 nm3/hr

Hydrocarbon Gases Processing / Treatment Plants

Recovery of methane fraction from associated oil gas (fuel gas preparation before gas-piston (GPPP) and gas-turbine (GTPP) power plants). Natural gas dew-point adjustment for water and hydrocarbons (preparation of gas for pipeline transportation). Recovery of valuable hydrocarbons from effluents of petrochemical production flows.

Advantages of GRASYS membrane plants

Small weight and dimensions. Modular design: configurability of plant component parts. Minimum operating costs. Absence of need for constant control by operating personnel. Power efficiency. High degree of operating reliability and fail-safety. Capability of operation under strong vibration and arctic temperatures. Extended operational life.

Main Applications of GRASYS Air Separation Plants in Offshore Development Projects

Membrane nitrogen generators

Equipment purging before and after repairs

Fire fighting

Generating inert blanket in tankers

Nitrogen Plant for Korchagin Field IRP-1

Customer Industry Purpose Capacity Nitrogen purity

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LLC Lukoil Nizhnevolzhskneft Oil Industry Meeting flow process requirements 420 nm3/hr (two plants) 97 %
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Plant for Lukoil-Kaliningradmorneft (Varandei shipping Terminal)

Customer Industry Purpose Capacity Nitrogen purity

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OJSC Lukoil Oil Industry Meeting flow process requirements 100 nm3/hr (two plants) 95 %
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Nitrogen Plant for Prirazlomnaya Platform

Customer Industry Purpose Capacity Nitrogen purity

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OJSC Sevmash Oil Industry Meeting flow process requirements 3,500 nm3/hr 95 %
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Main Technologies of Hydrocarbons Separation for Use in Offshore Development Projects

Membrane plants for APG treatment

Dewpoint adjustment for hydrocarbons and water

Fuel gas pre-treatment before power generators (to cover the offshore platform own power needs)

Removal of sulfur components

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Specifics of CarboPEEK Membrane and Cartridge

Chemical and performance stability as regards aggressive media (including 3+, H2S, methanol). Concentration of the most easily condensing permeate components (Lowpressure area), thus excluding the possibility of their condensation within the membrane plant. High density of fiber packing 10 time higher than in flat membranes. Homogenous controlled packing degree. Minimum pressure drop in the target flow.

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Comparison of Classic Membrane with CarboPEEK Membrane The operating principle of membrane systems is based on the difference in the rate of penetration of various gases through membrane separating layer. 1. Classic membrane for air separation, hydrogen recovery from HCG*
H2O H2 He CO2 O2 Ar CO

CH4

N2

C2H6

C 3H 8

2. CarboPEEK membrane for hydrocarbons separation

(H2O, H2S) C6H14 C5H12 C4H10 C3H8 C2H6 CO2 O2 CH4 N2

Fast gases
*HBG hydrogen-containing gas mixtures

Slow gases

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Flowchart of Fuel Gas Treatment (Pressure scheme)

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Technical Characteristics of Membrane Plant for Fuel Gas Treatment

Parameter Flow rate, m nm3/year Feed APG 47.8 At the GSU input 47.4 Fuel gas to GPPP 26.3

Pressure, MPa
Methane index (as per AVL 3.2.) LHV, MJ/m3

0.38
54 43.48

0.96
54.9 42.8

0.8
72 36.2

Wobbe index, MJ/m3

Composition, %vol. Methane 4+ 6+

48.45
71.7 5.57 0.83

47.6
72.2 5.1 0.5

43.8
82.8 1.5 0.1

Dewpoint for hydrocarbons, Dewpoint for moisture,

+10 +25

+15 +15

- 24 -35

Configuration: compressor (1+1) in individual enclosures and GSU in a 12meter block-container. Installation of the pre-fabricated bock at the site. Installation, commissioning and startup within one month.
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Comparison of Achieved Technical Characteristics with Membrane and Other Fuel Gas Treatment Methods

60 50
Safe zone

40 30 20 10 0 Feed gas Low temperature Vortex technology separation Methane No Membrane technology

LHV, MJ/3

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Flowchart of Single-Stage Recycled Treatment of Dry Stripped Gas for Transportation

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Achieved Technical Characteristics by Gas Drying for Transportation (Odoptu-More Project)

Parameter
Flow rate, m nm3/year Pressure, bar Temperature, Composition, %vol. Methane Ethane 3+ Dewpoint for moisture at = 56 bar,

Feed gas
365.0 57 +25

Pipeline gas
356.5 56 +20

Permeate
8.5 1.2 +20

93.1 4.2 1.5 +25

93.4 4.19 1.45 - 12

88.0 5.28 3.44 -

In case of use of permeate as a compressor fuel, nearly 100% APG disposal is achieved.
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Plant for Hydrogen Sulfide containing APG Treatment before Gazprom pipeline
Parameter Flow rate, m nm3/year Pressure, MPa Composition: Methane, %vol. 4+, %vol. H2S, mg/m3 , /3 Dewpoint for hydrocarbons, Dewpoint for moisture, Feed gas 17.5 2.7 87.6 2.42 Up to280 150 + 10 +25 + 15 +35 Treated gas 14.9 2.5 95.0 0.38 max. 7 16 max. minus 5 max. minus 20

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