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CANADIAN GAS PLANT USES AMINE UNIT TO SWEETEN LIQUID ETHANE
Ian M. Wesch Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd. Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. Treating liquid ethane with amine to remove CO2 has proven successful at Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd.'s Fort Saskatchewan gas plant. Experience at the plant indicates that, if recommended operating procedures and guidelines ...
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Tesoro refinery improves operation efficiency in amine treating unit
… Kapolei, Ha., improved operation of its hydrogen plant amine unit by switching to a specialty amine. The methyldiethanolamine ..... significantly reduced. Tesoro refinery Tesoro's hydrogen plant amine unit has used several different amine solvents in the past …
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Density, phase behavior keys to acid gas injection
Acid gas injection requires an understanding of the complexities of gas phase behavior and physical properties. Injected acid gas streams typically come from the top of the regenerator reflux accumulator of an amine unit . Thus, they are composed mainly of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide ...
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PROCESS SAFETY—1: Gas conditioning failures show need for design scrutiny
… 2 of this series. Product breakthrough In a typical amine unit operation, the rich amine from a contactor column is ..... in Red River Parish, La., during start-up of an amine unit , an amine flash tank overpressured when an operator …
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Formosa refinery improves sweetening with amine blends
… generally used to remove H 2 S in the amine unit . MEA, a primary amine, has higher ..... reached without having to shut down the amine unit . Before conversion planning, the ..... there was no need to shut down the amine unit and drain the system of DEA solvent …
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Separations technology improves amine system's overall reliability
… hydrocarbon emulsion that can damage the amine unit and sulfur-plant operations, which ..... experience Up until 2004, the Marsulex amine unit was relatively reliable. Although ..... but no protection for the Marsulex amine unit and sulfur plant. Following the …
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Converting to DEA/MDEA mix ups sweetening capacity
… many gas-processing plants, the amine unit may limit the entire plant throughput ..... is operating. If, however, the amine unit has become dirty or the amine has ..... extracted. The gas is sent to an amine unit for sweetening to a product specification …
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Tune-up of amine system avoids costly new system
… years of declining performance in an amine unit at the refinery nearly resulted in ..... contactors in the refinery. While the amine unit was sized for 20% DEA solution strength ..... incidents. Most of the problems with the amine unit were interrelated. The two leading …
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Louisiana gas plant hikes production with quick solvent changeout
… Parish in southern Louisiana. The amine unit treats a raw natural gas stream containing ..... includes Train 1, a 150-MMcfd amine unit followed by a tetra-ethylene glycol ..... s operating capacity due to an amine unit bottleneck. The plant was originally …
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Contaminants key to refinery offgas treatment unit design
… removal system. This system can be an amine unit followed by caustic treating or a ..... consider disposal of acid gas from the amine unit . Inlet gas dehydration After acid ..... can then be removed in a downstream amine unit . Mercury removal The designer should …
