Effect Of System Pressure Towards Natural Gas Dehydration Efficiency Using Centrifugal Force

• Main Author: Abdul Aziz, Mohd Azuary
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2010
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9454/1/2010%20-%20Effect%20of%20System%20Pressure%20Towards%20natural%20Gas%20Dehydration%20Efficiency%20using%20Centrifugal%20For.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9454/

The increasing market demand for natural gas has pushed the energy industries to explore new natural gas resources in remote location. Consequently, new dehydration technologies suitable for remote location operation must be in placed in order to exploit and transport these resources economically. Three main challenges in developing these new technologies are the compactness of the equipment, performance reliability and minimum human intervention in terms of maintenance and monitoring. This paper reviews the current dehydration technology, as well as the new and emerging technologies for natural gas dehydration, as well as the experimental set-up, the methodology and the initial analysis of the high-g separation for dehydration purposes. In this project, some of the factors that may have influence the cyclone performance such as the temperature, inlet gas velocity, water loading and the system pressure is identified. This study focused on the system pressure effect toward the separation efficiency. The prototype separator will be operated in the lab to verify scale-up parameters and separation efficiencies, as well as to provide information necessary to design a full-scale system. The full-scale system will be fabricated, installed in the field, and operated to demonstrate the technology.