Steady-state energy optimization and transition assessment in a process of CO2 absorption from natural gas

Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Enrique E. Tarifa and Eleonora Erdmann

Energy, 2018, vol. 159, issue C, 1016-1023

Abstract: An industrial-scale MDEA-based CO2 absorption process is considered in this work. Natural gas plant of Aguaragüe Argentina is selected to perform the studies of optimization and dynamics. With the steady-state of the process simulated, the reboiler energy demand of the plant is optimized in Aspen Hysys v8.8. In this optimization study, we analyze the base case (current) conditions of the reference plant and also six disturbance scenarios. According to the results, the main energy requirement can be reduced in more than a 48%, with the current process design.

Keywords: CO2 absorption; Natural gas sweetening; MethylDiethanolamine (MDEA); Energy optimization; Dynamic simulation; Transition assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.108

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