Evaluation of correlations for optimizing gas mixture compressibility

factors applicable to natural gas storage and transportation

E. Sanjari, M. H. Saberi, E. Nemati Lay
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, Ravand
Street, Kashan, P.O.Box 87317-51167, Iran; tel: +98 361 5555 333 , fax: +98 361 5559
930,
email: enemati@kashanu.ac.ir
The compressibility factor of gas mixture plays an important role on natural gas storage and
transportation. This paper compares five the most commonly used correlations for predicting
500 experimental data points. Among the five correlations studied, AGA8-DC92 was found to
give the least average absulte ralative deviation with respect to original data. For optimizing
natural gas storage, different compositions of natural gas with specifc gravity ranges from
0.55 to 0.84 have been studied. Regarding to accurate prediction of AGA8-DC92 correlation,
the compressibility factors of synthetic natural gas have been calculated for tempratures
ranges from (273.15 to 313.15) K and high pressures. The effect of pressure on natural gas
compresssibility factors has been determined at constant temperature and different specific
gravity. From correlated natural gas compressibilily factors, it was found that the
compressibility factor decreases by increasing pressure at lower pressures while it increases at
higher pressure. It is worth nothing that the graphical analysis including optimized natural gas
compressibility factors has been presented.
Keywords: compressibility factor, natural gas, storage, transportation, optimization