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JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 1, 期 3, 页码 68-71出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2009.08.001
关键词
Correlation; Natural gas; Dew point; Triethylene glycol; Gas dehydration
资金
- Australian Department of Education, Science and Training for Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS)
- Office of Research & Development at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
- State Government of Western Australia through the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA)
Evaluation of a triethylene glycol (TEG) system involves first establishing the minimum triethylene glycol (TEG) concentration required to meet the outlet gas water dew point specification. In the present work, simple-to-use correlation, which is simpler than currently available models involving a large number of parameters, requiring more complicated and longer computations, has been developed for the rapid estimation of the water dew point of a natural gas stream in equilibrium with a TEG solution at various temperatures and TEG concentrations. This correlation can be used to estimate the required TEG concentration for a particular application or the theoretical dew point depression for a given TEG concentration and contactor temperature. Actual outlet dewpoints depend on the TEG circulation rate and number of equilibrium stages, but typical approaches to equilibrium are 6-11 degrees C. Equilibrium dewpoints are relatively insensitive to pressure and this correlation may be used up to 10300 kPa (abs) with little error. The proposed correlation covers VLE data for TEG-water system for contactor temperatures between 10 degrees C and 80 degrees C and TEG concentrations ranging from 90.00 to 99.999 wff. The average absolute deviation percent from the data reported in the literature is 0.5% which shows the excellent performance of proposed correlation. This simple-to-use correlation can be of immense practical value for the gas engineers to have a quick check on equilibrium water dew point of natural gas at various temperatures and TEG weight percents. In particular, personnel dealing with natural gas dehydration and processing would find the proposed approach to be user friendly involving no complex expressions with transparent calculations. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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