Integrated development and industrial application of high sour natural gas purification technology

Aiming at acute characteristics of flammability,explosibility,causticity and leakiness of high sour natural gas,giving full consideration to local natural conditions in Sichuan Province and starting with purification process,the paper analyzed process configurations,energy utilization and conservation,safety and environment protection measures. The integrated technology and engineering scheme for high sour natural gas purification was established and successfully used in industrial application.

Experimental Study of UDS Solvents for Purifying Highly Sour Natural Gas at Industrial Side-stream Plant

The desulfurization performance of the UDS solvents was investigated at an industrial side-stream plant and was compared with that of MDEA solvent.A mass transfer performance model was employed for explaining the COS absorption into different solvents.Meanwhile,the regeneration performance of the UDS solvents was evaluated in side-stream tests.Results indicate that under the conditions covering an absorption temperature of 40℃,a pressure of 8.0 MPa,and a gas to liquid volume ratio(V/L)of around 230,the H2S content in purified gas can be reduced to 4.2 mg/m3 and 0 by using solvents UDS-II and UDS-III,respectively.Moreover,the total sulfur content in both purified gases is less than 80 mg/m3.As a result,the UDS-III solvent shows by 30 percentage points higher in COS removal efficiency than MDEA.In addition,the total volume mass transfer coefficient of UDS solvent is found to be twice higher than that of MDEA.Furthermore,the UDS solvents exhibit satisfactory thermal stability and regeneration performance.

The construction of technical standard system for ultra deep and high sour gas fields in Northeast Sichuan

To deal with the exploitation difficulties of gas fields in Northeast Sichuan with deep marine strata, after researching the relative standards domestic and abroad extensively, summarizing and promoting the successful experiences and failure lessons of project construction technology application scientifically, Sinopec has established an integrated technical standard system for the exploration and development of ultra deep and high sour gas fields. The system consists of 51 enterprise standards and covers 7 professions including geophysical prospecting, drilling, drilling log, well logging, gas formation test and production, sour gas gathering and transferring system, and HSE (health,safety,environment). It guides and guarantees the safe, high-quality and high-efficiency project construction effectively by means of enhancing the engineering design criterion, recommending the data processing and interpretation methods, identifying the requirements of operation and field inspection and standardizing the application of technical equipments.

Calculating densities and viscosities of natural gas with a high content of C_(2+) to predict two-phase liquid-gas flow pattern

The paper is devoted to the two-phase flow simulation.The gas-condensate mixture flow in a horizontal pipe under high pressure is considered.The influence of the equation of state(EOS)choice for mixture properties modelling on the flow regime calculation results is studied for gas with high content of methane homologues.An analytical overview of the methods to predict the flow pattern is provided.Based on this analysis,two techniques are selected.For these techniques,values of density and viscosity for each phase are required.Density calculation for the gas phase is performed with Van der Waals based EOS.The propriate EOS is selected based on studies of calculation errors for test mixtures.Calculation of liquid phase density is done by means of Patela-Teja and Guo-Du equations,two different models are considered for viscosity estimation.The flow patterns of gas-condensate mixture in a range of temperatures and pressures are calculated and verified via probability map.The results of study allow to recommend the Brusilovsky EOS for calculation of densities for similar gas mixtures and make more rigorous flow regime evaluation.The probability map shows that for the chosen composition and parameters of media the flow pattern is mostly transitional between segregated and annular independent from EOS.

MDEA/DEA脱硫脱碳混合溶液在长庆气区的应用

随着长庆气区靖边等气田的不断开发,其天然气气质发生了较大变化,其中H2S含量上升到1000mg/m3,CO2体积分数上升到4.5%～6.0%,原天然气净化工艺采用的单一MDEA溶液已不能满足天然气脱硫脱碳需要。为此,开展了不同体积比MDEA/DEA混合醇胺溶液脱硫脱碳试验。试验结果显示:在相同的试验条件下,溶液中总胺为40%(质量分数),DEA与MDEA体积比为1:6配比制成的混合溶液其H2S和CO2负荷最高,溶液的脱硫脱碳性能最好。继而在4套生产装置进行了推广应用。结论表明:应用MDEA/DEA混合溶液对低含硫、高含碳的天然气进行净化处理,溶液酸气负荷较高,脱硫、脱碳性能较好,腐蚀性小,天然气净化装置运行平稳,节能效果好,经济适用。

高含硫天然气水含量的估算方法

随着天然气消费市场的日益增长,对高含硫化氢气田的勘探开发逐渐提上日程。对于从矿场开采出来的含有CO2、H2S的天然气,水分的存在会导致具有强腐蚀性的酸液形成,造成管线、设备、仪表的腐蚀,在一定条件下还会形成水合物堵塞管路、设备,影响平稳供气。为了设计油气加工装置和管道系统,需要知道天然气中的水含量。本文主要介绍了现有的高含硫天然气饱和水含量的计算方法,并对每种方法的估算依据、及估算步骤以及适用性进行了分析,推荐出了适合于高含硫天然气含水量的计算方法。

酸性天然气生成水合物条件实验测定与应用

针对酸性天然气藏开发易生成水合物,堵塞井筒及生产管线的问题,运用定温搜索压力法,对中国西部地区2个高含CO_(2)的天然气藏气样进行水合物生成条件实验测定。研究表明:天然气中高CO_(2)含量提高了地层水中HCO-3的离子含量,从而增加了地层水的矿化度;与纯CH 4气体相比,相同温度条件下,CO_(2)的存在显著降低了天然气水合物生成所需的地层压力。对于目标天然气流体,在低矿化度地层水中,生成水合物条件与在纯水中没有明显差别;在较高矿化度(16970.7 mg/L)地层水中生成天然气水合物压力显著高于纯水体系。进一步基于Clausius-Clapeyron方程计算所合成水合物的分解焓为62 kJ/mol,生成的天然气水合物为Ⅰ型结构。最后结合实验数据和生产动态数据,对目标气藏开发过程水合物生成特征进行分析,预测井筒内是否生成水合物以及出现水合物的井筒位置,该研究为现场生产预防水合物生成具有借鉴意义。

浅析H_2S和CO_2对特高含硫天然气水化物形成温度的影响

经过计算分析比较,特高含硫天然气水化物形成温度比不含硫天然气水化物形成温度高。对特高含硫天然气而言,硫化氢含量越高,对水化物形成温度影响越大,且随压力的降低,硫化氢含量越高对水化物形成温度影响得越大。其中二氧化碳含量的高低,对水化物形成温度影响不大。