摘要:
Devices and methods for retrofitting a natural gas liquids plant are contemplated to extend recovery of C3+ hydrocarbons from various feed gases to recovery of C2+ and C3+ hydrocarbons. In especially preferred aspects, dedicated C2+ exchangers are integrated to exclusively cool the feed gas to produce a cooled absorber feed and to produce two separate absorber reflux streams. During C2+ recovery, absorber reflux is provided by a portion of the residue gas and a portion of the feed gas, while during C3+ recovery absorber and distillation column reflux are provided by the distillation column overhead product.
摘要:
Process for treatment of a hydrocarbon feedstock that comprises a hydrocarbon-containing liquid phase and hydrogen, in which the feedstock is separated under a pressure P1 into a liquid L1 and a gas G1, that is compressed and brought into contact with a portion of L1 under a pressure P2>2×P1 to recover a liquid L2 and a hydrogen-rich gas G2; L2 is fractionated to obtain a stabilized liquid L4a that is free of LPG and lighter products, a liquid stream of LPG, and a gas stream G4 that is recycled, and in which one of gas streams: recompressed G1 and G4 is in counter-current contact with an unstabilized liquid AL that is obtained from or extracted from L1 or L2, whereby this unstabilized liquid is supercooled by at least 10° C. below its bubble point at pressure P2.
摘要:
An absorption process for separating a feed gas stream having components with a spectrum of volatilities including volatile (light) components, intermediate volatility components, and least volatile (heavy) components. The disclosed process includes the steps of: (1) contacting the feed gas stream with a liquid lean solvent stream in an absorber to produce a light product gas stream that is composed of predominantly light components and a rich solvent stream containing most of the intermediate and heavy components; (2) flashing the rich solvent stream at reduced pressure in a flash zone to produce an intermediate product gas stream composed predominantly of intermediate components and a lean solvent stream; (3) conveying the lean solvent stream from the flashing zone to the absorber, wherein the lean solvent is composed predominantly of heavy components taken from the feed; the process does not use an external lean solvent. The process is particularly useful for rejecting nitrogen from natural gas and for recovering hydrogen from refinery and petrochemical process off-gases.
摘要:
A process for removing diamondoids from a stream of natural gas. In this process, contact between a solvent liquid and natural gas containing diamondoids occurs in a stepwise counter current cascaded fashion. The stepwise counter-current cascaded arrangement substantially improves the removal of the light diamondoids (adamantane). The contacting (mixing) of the gas and solvent liquid allows the liquid to absorb the diamondoids contained in the gas. The gas and liquid are then separated thereby removing the diamondoids from the gas. In the preferred embodiment, a multi -staged trayed solvent contractor tower is used to facilitate the stepwise counter current cascaded contacting in the gas production process immediately after the separation of the gas from any liquid in the gas. The partially saturated diamondoid liquid solvent from the tower can also be mixed with the gas at a point before the separation of the gas from any reservoir formation liquid in order to enhance the diamondoid removal process.
摘要:
A continuous process is disclosed for separating components of a hydrocarbon gas stream which are selected from the group consisting of methane, ethane, higher saturated hydrocarbons, and mixtures thereof by countercurrently contacting the hydrocarbon gas stream with a physical solvent selected from the group consisting of:(1) paraffinic solvents having molecular weights ranging from 75 to 140 and UOP characterization factors ranging from 12.0 to 13.5, these factors being independent of the aromatic content of the paraffinic solvents,(2) naphthenic solvents having molecular weights ranging from 75 to 130 and UOP characterization factors ranging from 10.5 to 12.0, these factors being independent of the aromatic content of the naphthenic solvents, and(3) benzene and toluene,to produce an overhead stream which is rich in methane and a rich solvent bottoms stream and then recovering the lean physical solvent and a C.sub.2 + hydrocarbons product from the rich solvent bottoms stream and recycling the recovered solvent stream to the contacting step.
摘要:
A gas-liquid extractive stripping process is disclosed which uses at least one preferential physical solvent in at least one solvent loop, each loop passing through at least two unit operations: extractive-stripping and distillation. At least the first extractive-stripping operation may additionally comprise a rectification section on top of the extraction section. Three products are made from streams of thermally cracked gases or refinery gases: a hydrogen-rich gas stream, a methane-rich gas stream, and a C.sub.2 =+ hydrocarbons stream which is the feed stream for the conventional fractionation train of an olefins manufacturing facility. Ethylene can be economically produced from the C.sub.2 =+ hydrocarbons product stream at a recovery of at least 99.5% and a purity of at least 99.9%.
摘要:
A stream of natural gas, which is rich in C.sub.5 + hydrocarbons and may be wet or dry or sweet or sour, is extracted in two stages with a physical solvent. In the first stage, a major portion of the solvent, containing up to an equilibrium amount of C.sub.5 + hydrocarbons, removes substantially all of the water and the C.sub.2 + hydrocarbons. In the second stage, the partially stripped natural gas is countercurrently extracted with a lean-and-dry minor portion of the solvent which contains less than 1% by weight of water and less than 1% by volume of hydrocarbons. The residue natural gas, which is then sent to a pipeline, contains less than 7 pounds of water per million standard cubic feet. The rich solvent is flashed to atmospheric pressure in at least two stages, forming a methane-rich vapor portion which is suitably recycled to the first extraction, a methane-poor vapor portion, and a flashed solvent containing up to equilibrium amounts of C.sub.5 + hydrocarbons. The methane-poor vapor portion is compressed, cooled, and condensed to form a liquid stream which is selectively stripped of C.sub.1, C.sub.1 +C.sub. 2, C.sub.1 +C.sub.2 +C.sub.3 or C.sub.1 +C.sub.2 +C.sub.3 +C.sub.4 to form a liquid hydrocarbon product of selected composition based on market economics. A slipstream of the flashed solvent, containing the amount of water picked up from the natural gas stream and amounting to less than 25% by weight of the flashed solvent, is all that needs to be regenerated to form the lean-and-dry minor portion.
摘要:
An absorbent hydrocarbonaceous oil comprising contaminants, such as sulfur and/or nitrogen, is upgraded by subjecting the contaminated absorbent oil to hydrorefining. The upgraded absorbent may be utilized again as absorbent.
摘要:
A continuous process for selective countercurrent extraction of C.sub.2 + hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream with a physical solvent while at pipeline pressures to produce a residue natural gas stream meeting pipeline specifications and a liquid hydrocarbon product having a composition which can be readily adjusted to any selected degree in accordance with market conditions so that profitability of the extraction operation can be maximized at all times. The rich solvent is let down in pressure through successive flashing stages to produce a liquid product, and the stripped solvent is recirculated to the extraction step. The versatility of the process is achieved by using the following steps, in order of importance: (1) selectively varying the flow rate of the solvent with respect to the flow rate of the natural gas stream; (2) selectively varying the flashing pressure for one or more successive flashing stages; (3) recycling the flashed C.sub.1 + undesirable gases to the extraction step; and (4) rejecting selected components of the liquid product in a stripping column for the liquid hydrocarbon product by: (a) selectively varying the pressure in the column, and (b) selectively varying the temperature at the bottom of the column. The rejected components are also recycled to the extraction step and are C.sub.1, C.sub.1 +C.sub.2, C.sub.1 +C.sub.2 +C.sub.3, or C.sub.1 +C.sub.2 +C.sub.3 +C.sub.4. If water is present in significant quantities, the solvent is regenerated before recycling it to the extraction step.
摘要:
An absorption process is disclosed for the recovery of normally liquid hydrocarbons from a gas stream. The process is useful in recovering hydrocarbons from the gas stream discharged by the main fractionation column of a fluidized catalytic cracking unit. The feed gas is compressed and passed through an absorption zone to produce a high pressure lean gas which is depressurized in a power recovery turbine. The turbine compresses air used within the catalyst regeneration zone of the fluidized catalytic cracking unit.