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GAS ARABIA SUMMIT, 5th annual meeting

Sour Gas Meeting


Liquid Sulphur H andling Facilities and Long D istance Pipelines

Rolf Szczepanek, 31/01/2010

Liquid Sulphur Handling Facilities and Long Distance Pipelines


Table of Contents
Physical Properties
Heating
Station

Systems
facilities

Pumps
Loading / Unloading Facilities
Tanks
Solidification units
Silo
Pipelines
Main

Project Risks

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Physical Properties of -Sulphur
9

1800

1790

6
5

1780

density / kg/m

viscosity / mm/s

viscosity
density

4
3
120

130

140

150

1770
160

temperature / C

narrow operating range (125C to 150C) special demands


on redundancy, heating and insulation
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Heating Systems
Station

piping, valves
and pumps
Jacketing or tracing

Pipelines

Electrical

Steam

Conventional Heating Cables

Hot Water

Skin Effect Heating System

Thermal Oil

Hot water

Electrical heating cables

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Heating Systems, boiler unit

TO-Heaters
Brake
2 x 700 kW

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Heating Systems, Pipes
Pipe in Pipe System for
heating by Thermo-Oil,
Hot Water, Steam

Fixed
support
of
jacketed
pipe

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Heating Systems, jacketed Pumps and Valves

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Station facilities, Pumps
Centrifugal Pumps

conventional coupled

magnetically coupled
Screw Pumps

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Station facilities, Loading / Unloading Facilities

Railway Unloading
Station, Brake
5 x 60 m / h
Screw pumps

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Station facilities, Loading / Unloading Facilities

NPSHA = 1.6 m
Screw pumps

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Station facilities, Tanks

10,000 to, Sulphur Plant Brake / Germany


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Station Facilities, Tanks
Insulation

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Station Facilities, Tanks

Heating coils on bottom


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Roof heating
system

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Station Facilities, Solidification

Granulation

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Station Facilities, Solidification
Pastilation

Flaking

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Station facilities, Silo
10,000 to, Sulphur Plant
Brake / Germany
spiral slide
conveyor

emptying tube

discharge opening
air in-/outlet

emptying tube
discharge opening
swelling (Beton)

gangway

ridged roof, 35 (concrete)

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bottom plate (concrete)


supporting wall (concrete)

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Pipelines
Special

Design Criteria

Decision on heating system; Electrical (conventional / skin effect) or hot water


Sectioning: optimization of length and voltage
Redundancy: two independent circuits
Pre-tensioning and/or expansion elbows
Special design of insulation, and supports
SCADA
temperature and viscosity profile
set point for temperature controllers
calculation of survival time
monitor insulation quality
Displacement system
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Pipelines

solid density ~2000 kg/m3


re-melting is critical due to ~10 % volume increase

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Pipelines, Heating Systems

Electrical/C onventional, 3 Line, 4.5 km


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Pipelines, Heating Systems

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Electrical/Skin Effect

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Pipelines, Heating Systems
Heat loss: ~ 90 W/m (8/12-Pipeline, 6-return line)
Max. distance of Heater stations, existing: appr. 40 km
(Shells Caroline-Shantz pipeline, 41 km, worlds longest sulphur
pipeline)
Disadvantages:
Hot Water return line (6)
increased heating requirements
Deaeration
No redundant heating circuit

Advantages:
Increased heat capacity
more time in case of failure
Remelting from the end
reduced risk of bursting
Long heating sections

Hot Water Heating System


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Pipelines, Supports

4 Line, Underground, Pipe in Pipe System Voigtei Barenburg, 7


km

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Pipelines, Supports and Expansion Elbows

3 Sulphur Pipeline, Buschhaus Alversdorf, 4.5 km


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Pipelines, supports

sliding support
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ILF design

fixed-point support
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Main Project Risks

Insulation No cold bridges


Efficient heating system sufficient, but not too much
Selection of Pumps very critical
Possibility of Pipeline Draining or Displacement No stop of
flow
Redundancy (flow, displacement system, energy)

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Thank you for your attention!

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