Absorption: Procédés de Séparation de L'industrie Pétrochimique. CGP241

Insti tut Supérieur des Sciences
Appliquées et Économiques
Département de Génie des Procédés
Procédés de séparation de l’industrie pétrochimique.

CGP241
Année académique 2019-2020
Absorption
Presented by
Hiba GHANDOUR
Monday, June 22, 2020
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Table of contents
Table of contents.......................................................................................................................3
List of tables...............................................................................................................................4
List of figures.............................................................................................................................5
Introduction...............................................................................................................................6
I. Carbon dioxide absorption..................................................................................................7
I.1. Simulation.......................................................................................................................7
I.2. Results and Analysis......................................................................................................7
I.3. Further study..................................................................................................................8
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
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List of tables
Table 1 : Table presenting the molar flow and their composition of the outlet streams............7
Table 2 : Results table of the variation of CO2 composition function of the solvent’s molar
flow............................................................................................................................................9
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List of figures
Figure 1 : Figure representing the CO2 absorption process........................................................7

Figure 2 : Variation of CO2 concentration function of the solvent molar flow..........................8
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Introduction
Chemical Absorption is a separation method, whether chemical or physical. It is broadly used

in the oil and gas and chemical industries for removal of CO2 from gas streams.
The absorption column receive the CO2 from the feed gas at the bottom and an aqueous or no
aqueous solution from the top to selectively absorb CO2 in a countercurrent fashion. The gas
stream in which most CO2 has been removed is obtained at the top and the CO2-rich solution
is obtained at the bottom. 1
In this report, we will simulate the CO2 absorption from the natural gas.
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I. Carbon dioxide absorption.
In this simulation, a natural gas formed from 80% methane and 20% CO2 enters an absorber
in order to separate the CO2 from the Methane.
I.1. Simulation.
A 16.3 m3/h of a mixture of 80% methane 20% carbon dioxide and a 2000kgmole/h stream of
propylene carbonate enters the absorber at 60°C and 60.1 atm.
Figure 1 will present the inlets, the absorber and the outlets of our simulation
Figure 1 : Figure representing the CO2 absorption process.
The reactor is a packed column operating at 60°C and a 60.1atm (6090kPa).
I.2. Results and Analysis

The resulted composition of the outlets in presented in Table 1 below.
Table 1 : Table presenting the molar flow and their composition of the outlet streams.
Gases Out Liq Out
Molar Flow (kgmole/h) 92.51 2212
Comp Mole Frac (Methane) 0.999938314 6.83E-02
Comp Mole Frac (CO2) 7.31E-06 2.75E-02
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Comp Mole Frac (C3=Carbonate) 5.44E-05 0.904166853
On the other hand, the column diameter is 1.865m and its height is 6m.
I.3. Further study.

We ruled a case study varying the solvent’s molar flow to see its influence on the CO2
concentration in the outlet vapor stream.
 Start point : 1500kgmole/h

 End point : 3000kgmole/h
 Step size : 10
The results of the case study is presented below.
Figure 2 presents the result curve of the variation of the concentration of CO2 function of the
solvent molar flow.
Figure 2 : Variation of CO2 concentration function of the solvent molar flow.
Table 2 will present more precise values of the CO2 composition variation function of the
solvent molar flow according to Aspen Hysys.
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Table 2 : Results table of the variation of CO2 composition function of the solvent’s
molar flow.
Solvent - Molar
CO2 COMP -
Flow
GASES OUT
kgmole/h
1500 1.17E-04
1600 6.27E-05
1610 5.91E-05
1620 5.57E-05
1630 5.25E-05
1640 4.95E-05
1650 4.67E-05
1660 4.40E-05
1670 4.16E-05
1680 3.93E-05
1690 3.71E-05
2000 7.29E-06
2500 8.32E-07
2600 5.74E-07
2700 3.98E-07
2800 2.78E-07
2900 1.98E-07
3000 1.43E-07
As shown in the results, at 2000kgmole/h of solvent the concentration of CO2 in the gas outlet
stream is negligible and the column diameter is 1.865m; but when we increased the molar
flow to 2500kgmole/h the CO2 molar fraction decreased from 7.31*10-6 to 8.07*10-7 but the
diameter of the column became 1.994m.
Therefore the optimum solvent molar flow to obtain a negligible concentration of CO2 using
the smallest column possible is 1640kgmole/h, since at this value the composition of CO2
remains negligible (4.95*10-5) diameter became 1.758m hence the volume decreased from
210.82m3 to 198.72m3.
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Conclusion
Every chemical process can be done is many ways. The size of the reactor, the molar flow of
the inlets and the operating conditions may differ from a problem statement to another.
Our job is to optimize the process in order to provide the desired results with minimum cost
and minimum waste of time, money, energy and products. And to achieve that goal programs
like Aspen Technology were made to help us.
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References
[1]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/chemical-absorption

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Procédés de séparation de l’industrie pétrochimique.

Année académique 2019-2020

Figure 1 : Figure representing the CO2 absorption process........................................................7

Chemical Absorption is a separation method, whether chemical or physical. It is broadly used

Figure 1 : Figure representing the CO2 absorption process.

The reactor is a packed column operating at 60°C and a 60.1atm (6090kPa).

I.2. Results and Analysis

I.3. Further study.

 Start point : 1500kgmole/h

The results of the case study is presented below.

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