DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESS SIMULATION MODEL OF GAS PROCESSING PLANT

Abstract

The objective of our project is the development of a natural gas processing plant able to process feed from four different wells of various known compositions. Natural gas when excavated is in a mixture of gases, oils, water and solids which need to be processed in order to obtain a refined product that can be further used. Natural gas is not only a great source of low sulfur fuel but is also the feedstock of various businesses for example Petro-chemical and fertilizers industries all use Natural gas to obtain Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Carbon monoxide and ammonia gas. Due to this dependency on Natural gas, it is essential to develop an effective and efficient processing plant that not only extracts a large proportion of gas from the well but also delivers other components as useable by-products. Our goal here is to produce a model that is able to output more than 90% of the total methane present in the feedstock along with producing LPG (C4+C5) and propane recovery (95%) as by-products in an economical manner.