Intensified separation alternatives for offshore natural gas sweetening

Wenwen Zhang; Nipun Garg; Martin Peter Andersson; Qinglin Chen; Bingjian Zhang; Rafiqul Gani; Seyed Soheil Mansouri

doi:10.1016/j.seppur.2021.120436

Intensified separation alternatives for offshore natural gas sweetening

Wenwen Zhang, Nipun Garg, Martin Peter Andersson, Qinglin Chen, Bingjian Zhang, Rafiqul Gani, Seyed Soheil Mansouri^*

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Offshore natural gas represents a significant portion of global natural gas reserves. Processing of natural gas is essential for gas upgrading before pipeline transportation and utilization. In this work, a phenomena-based approach to propose more sustainable intensified alternatives for separation of sour gases from offshore natural gas is considered. All possible process alternatives are explored systematically using a bottom-up approach. Over six hundred feasible intensified separation alternatives are generated and ranked in terms of enthalpy index. Six intensified separation alternatives are identified as novel and innovative candidates worthy of potential further investigation and possible industrial application. These alternatives are analyzed in terms of performance matrices and LCA indicators and compared against reference cases.

Original language	English
Article number	120436
Journal	Separation and Purification Technology
Volume	286
Number of pages	15
ISSN	1383-5866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2021.120436
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

Process intensification
Bottom-up approach
Phenomena-based methodology
Sweetening
Offshore natural gas

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