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Workshop
In this example, a typical acid gas treating facility is simulated. A water-
saturated natural gas stream is fed to an amine contactor. For this
example, Diethanolamine (DEA) at a strength of 28 wt% in water is used
as the absorbing medium. The contactor consists of 20 real stages. The
rich amine is flashed from the contactor pressure of 6900 kPa to 620 kPa
before it enters the rich/lean amine exchanger, where it is heated to the
regenerator feed temperature of 95°C. The regenerator also consists of
20 real stages. Acid gas is rejected from the regenerator at 50°C, while the
lean amine is produced at approximately 110°C. The lean amine is
cooled and recycled to the Contactor.
Learning Objectives
Once you have completed this section, you will be able to:
Prerequisites
Before beginning this section you need to have completed the following
modules:
• Getting Started
• Propane Refrigeration Loop
• Refrigerated Gas Plant
• NGL Fractionation Train
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Process Flow Diagram
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Column Overview I
Figure 1
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Column Overview II
Figure 2
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2. Add a second stream for the lean amine feed to the amine contactor
with the following values:
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The values for the stream DEA to Contactor will be updated once the
recycle operation is installed and has calculated.
Contactor Operation
The amine contactor is simulated using an Absorber operation in
HYSYS.
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The Amines property package requires that real trays be used in the
contactor and regenerator operations. To model this, in HYSYS,
component specific efficiencies are required for H2S and CO2 on a tray
by tray basis. These proprietary efficiency calculations are provided in
the column as part of the Amines package. Tray dimensions must be
supplied to enable this feature. Tray dimensions enable component
specific efficiencies to be calculated by estimating height of liquid on
the tray and the residence time of vapour in the liquid. To supply the
dimensions for Amines calculations, switch to the Parameters tab,
Amines page.
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Valve Operation
Rich DEA from the Absorber is directed to a Valve, VLV-100, where the
pressure is reduced to 620 kPa (90 psia), which is close to the
Regenerator operating pressure.
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Separator Operation
Gases which are flashed off from Rich DEA are removed using the rich
amine flash tank, Flash TK, which is installed as a Separator operation.
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Regenerator Operation
The Amine Regenerator is modelled as a Distillation Column. There are
20 real stages - 18 stages in the Tray Section plus a Reboiler and
Damping Factors will have
Condenser. The component efficiencies for this tower are assumed to be
no effect on problems where
the heat and spec error constant at 0.8 for H2S and 0.15 for CO2. The efficiencies of the
does not converge. Condenser and Reboiler must remain at 1.0, so only stages 1-18 should
have efficiencies entered for them. A Damping Factor of 0.4 will provide
Certain columns require the a faster, more stable convergence. The Damping Factor controls the step
use of a damping factor.
size used in the outer loop when updating the thermodynamic models
• Amine regenerators,
TEG Strippers, and Sour in the inner loop.
Water Strippers use 0.25
- 0.5
Add a Distillation column with the following information:
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Cooler Operation
Add a Cooler with the values given below:
Pump Operation
Add a Pump with the following information:
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Set icon
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Recycle Operation
The Recycle installs a theoretical block in the process stream. The feed
into the block is termed the calculated recycle stream, and the product
is the assumed recycle stream. The following steps take place during the
convergence process:
In this case, the lean amine (DEA to Contactor) stream which was
originally estimated will be replaced with the new calculated lean amine
(DEA to Recycle) stream and the Contactor and Regenerator will be run
until the recycle loop converges.
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Advanced Modelling
Concentrations of acid gas components in an amine stream are typically
expressed in terms of loadings of amine loadings—defined as moles of
the particular acid gas divided by moles of the circulating amine. The
Spreadsheet in HYSYS is well-suited for this calculation. Not only can
the loadings be directly calculated and displayed, but they can be
incorporated into the simulation to provide a “control point” for
optimizing the amine simulation.
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