LNG pretreatment & Plant design

(Comparative study with Aspen HYSYY)

Group number: 6th

Member names:
Syed Talha Faridi (CH-068)
Saad Bahadur (CH-073)
Wakeel Ahmed (CH-091)
Farheen Jawaid (CH-302)

Project Advisor:
Miss Alia Ahrar 1
Gantt Chart

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Objective of our project
Natural Gas

Pretreatment

Natural Gas Natural Gas

sweetening Dehydration

Liquefaction

LNG
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 Previous Work
Process selection
Simultaneous Mass &
Natural Gas energy balance
Sweetening Simulation
PFD

Pretreatment
Process selection
Simultaneous Mass &
Natural gas Energy balance
Dehydration Simulation
PFD

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Natural gas Sweetening Plant design

Major Equipments:
Separator
Absorber
Heat Exchanger
Regeneration Column
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 Plant Designing
Separator: Natural
Gas

Sizing Method API 12J

Diameter (in) 30
Height (ft) 10
Retention time 2 Feed

SEPARATOR
(minutes) gas

Volume (ft3) 49
Temperature (F) 95
Pressure (Psia) 1015
Material of Austenitic SS
Construction
Free water +
Condensates

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 Plant Designing
Absorber and Regeneration column:
Sweet
Lean Gas
Design Parameters Absorber Regeneration Solvent
Column

ABSORBER
Column Type Tray Column Tray Column
Tray Type Valve trays Valve Trays
Reboiler Type - Thermosyphon
Reboiler
Material of Austenitic Stainless Austenitic Stainless
Construction Steel Steel Natural Rich
Diameter (in) 49.5 32.8 Gas Solvent
Height (ft) 54 54
Pressure Drop (psi) 0.35 psi/tray 0.188 psi/tray
Acid
Tray Efficiency (%) 40 50 Gases

REGENERATION
No of trays 20 20
Temperature (F) 130 203
Pressure (Psia) 1005 26 Rich
Amine
Lean Amine
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 Plant Designing
Heat Exchanger:
Lean
Exchanger type Shell & tube Amine
(In)
nomenclature AES

Front head Channel and removable

cover

Shell type/Flow type One pass shell Rich

Amine Heat Exchanger Rich
Rear head Floating Head with Backing (in)
device
Amine
(Out)
Area (ft2) 628.2

Pressure Drop (psi) Shell side= 7 psi

Tube side= 7.4 psi
Lean
Heat transfer coefficient Uc= 747 Amine
(Btu/hr.ft2.F) Ud= 516
(Out)
Fouling Factor (Rd) Required= 0.001
Calculated= 0.0005
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 Cost Estimation and Escalation
Capital Cost (Euro)= 2060000
Operating Cost (Euro/Yr)= 630000
Revenue (euro/yr) 1900000
Discounted Payback period= 1.85

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 TEG Dehydration Plant design wrt GMP
and Operating Problems

Major Equipments:
Inlet Separator Flash Separator
Absorber L/R Heat Exchanger
L/R Preheater Regeneration column
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 Plant Designing
Separators:
Inlet Flash
Diameter (in) 20 30

Height (ft) 10 4

Retention time (minutes) 1.2 4

Volume (ft3) 6.5 3.5

Temperature (F) 110 115
Pressure (Psia) 1005 30
Material of Construction Mild Steel Mild Steel

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 Plant Designing
Exchangers:
L/R Preheater L/R Exchanger
Exchanger type Shell and tube Shell and tube
Area (ft2) 452.3 928.106
Pressure Drop (psi) Shell side=0.0572 Shell side=0.015
Tube side=0.327 Tube side=0.00178

Heat transfer Uc= 17.158 Uc= 8.6399

coefficient Ud= 13.664 Ud= 5.02427
(Btu/hr.ft2.F)

Fouling Factor (Rd) Calculated= .0149 Calculated= 0.0833

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 Plant Designing
Absorber and Regeneration column:
Design Parameters Absorber Stripper
Column Type Tray Column Tray Column
Tray type Bubble cap Bubble cap
Material of Construction Mild Steel Mild Steel
Diameter (in) 36 10.25
Height (ft) 36 27
Pressure Drop (psi) 0.35 psi/tray 0.188 psi/tray
Tray Efficiency (%) 25 25
No of trays 8 8

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Cost Estimation and Escalation
Capital Cost (Euro)= 7031740
Operating Cost (Euro/Yr)= 404858.7
Revenue (euro/yr) 2200000
Payback period= 3.2

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NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION

LNG is formed when natural gas is cooled by a

refrigeration process to temperatures of
between 159 and 162 degree C through a
process known as liquefaction.
Available Liquefcation Processes
 Justification Of MR Over Cascade and
Turbine Based
uses a single mixed refrigerant instead of multiple
pure refrigerants

Higher thermodynamic efficiency

Lower power requirement and entire machinery

smaller

Lower maintenance cost

Classification of Mixed Refrigerent
Single Mixed Refrigerent Process (SMR),

Dual Mixed Refrigerant Process (DMR),

Mixed refrigerant with propane pre-cooling

(C3/MR),

AP-X
 Why C3MR?

1. Production capacity
2. Power Efficiency
BFD & PFD of C3MR Process

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 Assumptions
Propane is available at -40 degree C.

The compression taking place in the

compressor is isentropic

The expansion of both propane and

mixed refrigerant are isenthalpic (No
change in enthalpies)

Isobaric evaporation and condensation

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 Comparison between HYSY and
Manual Calculation
Equipments HYSYS Calculated

Heat exchanger#1 1500000 kj/h 13500000 kj/h

(E-100)
Heat exchanger#2 980000 kj/h 990000 kj/h
(E-101)
Heat exchanger#3 950000 kj/h 940000 kj/h
(E-102)
Heat exchanger#1 4000000 Kj/h 3800000 kj/h
(E-103)
Heat exchanger#1 6000000 kj/h 6500000 kj/h
(E-104)
Heat exchanger#1 7000000 kj/h 6900000 kj/h
(E-105)
LNG exchanger # 1 33000000 kj/h 31000000 kj/h
(LNG-100)
LNG exchanger # 2 3000000 kj/h 3200000 kj/h
(LNG-101)
Cooler 27000000 kj/h 270000000 kj/h
(E-106)
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