Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for separating a high-pressure natural gas, which can stably feed methane used for a fuel and the like, and other components in a natural gas used for raw materials for petrochemical plants to onsite places where these are consumed; and to provide a separation apparatus used therefor.SOLUTION: The separation apparatus has: a fractionating column 10 using a high-pressure natural gas or a city gas in a gas pipe line as a raw material, accumulating high-boiling point components in the raw material gas in the lower part thereof in a liquid state, and accumulating a methane-rich gas in the upper part thereof, by the cryogenic separation; a heat exchanger 2 cooling the raw material gas; a reboiler 1 cooling the raw material gas having passed through the heat exchanger 2; a raw material gas expanding means (raw material gas expanding valve 3) adiabatically expanding the raw material gas having passed through the reboiler 1; a first product gas flow path M making the methane-rich gas in the fractionating column upper part pass through the heat exchanger 2 and leading it outside as a first product gas; and a second product gas flow path E making the high-boiling point components in the fractionating column lower part pass through the heat exchanger 2 and leading it outside as a second product gas.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for removing nitrogen from a boil off-gas that can stably removes nitrogen from a boil off-gas that is generated from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank and the like even if a nitrogen concentration in the boil off gas varies, and to provide a nitrogen removing apparatus for use with the same.SOLUTION: The apparatus for removing nitrogen from a boil off gas (BOG) includes: a nitrogen gas recycling flow path R for reducing a part of a nitrogen gas that is extracted from a fractionation column 10 through a nitrogen gas extraction flow path T as the reflux liquid of the fractionation column 10 by circulating through a recycle nitrogen gas compressor 5, a main heat exchanger 2, a supercooling device 6 and the like; and a nitrogen gas mixing flow path M for adding and mixing the other part of the nitrogen gas that is extracted from the fractionation column 10 to and with the BOG gas that is extracted from an LNG tank through a mixer 8 and the like for the adjustment of the nitrogen concentration of the BOG gas.