Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel

Gas dehydration is widely used in natural gas treatment plant as a common process, because water and hydrocarbon can form hydrates (ice formation) which may block valve and pipelines. Water also can cause corrosion in the presence of acid gas component in natural gas. Until today, the most popular d...

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Main Author: Khairul Rafik, Abdullah
Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling ump-8742015-03-03T07:47:23Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/874/ Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel Khairul Rafik, Abdullah TP Chemical technology Gas dehydration is widely used in natural gas treatment plant as a common process, because water and hydrocarbon can form hydrates (ice formation) which may block valve and pipelines. Water also can cause corrosion in the presence of acid gas component in natural gas. Until today, the most popular dehydration process is adsorption and absorption process. The objective of this study was to remove the water content in natural gas for adsorption and absorption process. This study consists of fabricating the lab scale dehydration unit by using PVC-Clear pipe. Two types of desiccant were used in this study which is silica gel for adsorption process and triethylene glycol for absorption process. The various quantity of desiccant was used in this study to get the maximum amount of water content removal from natural gas. In this study, the methods used were designing, fabricating, testing, experimental and analyzing. From the study, the maximum allowable operating pressure for both dehydration unit is 0.3 bar. Furthermore, the higher quantity of desiccant gives the higher amount of water content removal from natural gas. The result also shows that the increasing operating pressure for the process will decrease the water content removal from natural gas for both processes. Lastly, triethylene glycol is a better desiccant compare with silica gel in dehydration process for this study. 2009-04 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/874/1/Khairul_Rafik_Abdullah.pdf Khairul Rafik, Abdullah (2009) Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel. Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang.
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Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
description Gas dehydration is widely used in natural gas treatment plant as a common process, because water and hydrocarbon can form hydrates (ice formation) which may block valve and pipelines. Water also can cause corrosion in the presence of acid gas component in natural gas. Until today, the most popular dehydration process is adsorption and absorption process. The objective of this study was to remove the water content in natural gas for adsorption and absorption process. This study consists of fabricating the lab scale dehydration unit by using PVC-Clear pipe. Two types of desiccant were used in this study which is silica gel for adsorption process and triethylene glycol for absorption process. The various quantity of desiccant was used in this study to get the maximum amount of water content removal from natural gas. In this study, the methods used were designing, fabricating, testing, experimental and analyzing. From the study, the maximum allowable operating pressure for both dehydration unit is 0.3 bar. Furthermore, the higher quantity of desiccant gives the higher amount of water content removal from natural gas. The result also shows that the increasing operating pressure for the process will decrease the water content removal from natural gas for both processes. Lastly, triethylene glycol is a better desiccant compare with silica gel in dehydration process for this study.
format Undergraduates Project Papers
author Khairul Rafik, Abdullah
author_facet Khairul Rafik, Abdullah
author_sort Khairul Rafik, Abdullah
title Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
title_short Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
title_full Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
title_fullStr Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
title_full_unstemmed Gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
title_sort gas dehydration process by using triethylene glycol and silica gel
publishDate 2009
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/874/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/874/1/Khairul_Rafik_Abdullah.pdf
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