Acid Gas Injection – The Next Generation
John Carroll, Gas Liquids Engineering, Canada
Acid gas (CO2 and H2S) is a by-product of the sweetening of natural gas. Acid gas injection (AGI) is the compression of a low-pressure ...
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An Evaluation of General “Rules of Thumb” in Amine Sweetening Unit Design and Operation
Luke Addington and Chris Ness, Bryan Research and Engineering, Texas, USA
Many “rules of thumb” are widely used in the design and operation of amine sweetening units. These rules have ...
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Corrosion control on amine plants allows compact unit design with high acid gas loadings
J. Kittel, IFP-Lyon, M.R. Bonis, TOTAL,G. Perdu, PROSERNAT, France
A critical review is made of the experience on DEA and MDEA amine units covering 4 decades and more ...
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Low Temperature Tail Gas Treating – It saves More Than Fuel!
Steve Massie, Criterion Catalysts and Technologies LP, USA
Low temperature tail gas treating catalysts have been shown to save on operating costs, capital expenditures and carbon dioxide emissions. As the ...
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Making Amine Systems Sing
Arthur L. Cummings, Glen Smith, Neil Tooley, MPR Services Inc, Texas, USA
Acid gas (CO2, H2S, SO2) scrubbing systems are intended to operate trouble-free, but rarely do. Contaminants (heat stable ...
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Mastering Mercaptans
Peter Hawes, Zeochem, Switzerland
Zeochem have done a great deal of work pioneering the use of molecular sieves to adsorb mercaptans. The first for a grassroots plant was the South ...
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Selecting Best Technology Lineup for Designing Gas Processing Units
Saeid Mokhatab, Tehran Raymand Consulting Engineers, Iran and Peter Meyer, CECA SA, France
Natural gas coming from the well contains hydrocarbons, CO2, H2S, water and many other impurities. Treatment of ...
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Sulfinol-X – Leveraging the advantages of well-proven and established technologies in a single acid gas removal process
Gerard van der Zwet et al. – SGS, The Netherlands
Sulfinol-X is a technology development for Acid Gas Removal based on long-term design and operational experience with both traditional hybrid solvents ...
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Supersize ME – Worldscale SRU / TGTU Goes Operational In Kazakhstan
Robin Street & Ken Allan, WorleyParsons Europe Limited, UK
Over the last 15 years, oil production at Tengizchevroil’s facility in Tengiz, Kazakhstan has steadily increased and today it has the ...
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The challenge of deep COS removal; What options do we have?
Torsten Katz, Volker Giesen – BASF gas Treatment Group, Germany
Parallel to the necessity for safe operations, the removal of trace sulfur components, such as mercaptans or carbonyl sulphide (COS), is ...
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The DAP and STREP Processes for Acid Gas Removal, Acid Gas Enrichment and Claus Tail Gas Treating
Nick Amott, Fluor, Camberley, UK
This paper focuses on the two innovative technologies: DAP (Double Absorption Process) and STREP (Selective Treating Regeneration Enhancement Process). While dealing with lean acid gases ...
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