 It consists of a gas-gas heat exchanger with five gas streams that enter at different temperatures,

cold separator, turboexpander, and demethanizer.

 The inlet gas stream makes several passes through the gas-gas exchanger before going to the
cold separator, where the vapor expands through a turboexpander.

 Liquid from the cold separator is flashed through a J-T valve and fed to the middle of the
demethanizer.

 The incoming gas provides reboiler heat at the bottom, and then is cooled further in a second
reboiler midway up the column.

 The maximum ethane recovery with the conventional turboexpander configuration is about
80%.