The Acid Gas Cleaning capability in Aspen HYSYS lets you rigorously simulate gas processing from beginning to end, including the removal of acid contaminants. Gas cleaning is used in both gas processing and refining applications. Natural and petroleum gases contain undesirable components, including water, sulfur components, and carbon dioxide. Acid gas cleaning results in the removal of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, and other related contaminants. High acid content in gas corrodes equipment and generates regulated emissions. As a result, acid gas cleaning is a key part of gas processing. The acid gas-dedicated workflow lets you model + Amine treating for gas sweetening + Sulfur removal, including hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, COS, and CS2 + Carbon dioxide removal + Amine regeneration + Amine degradation The Aspen HYSYS Acid Gas Cleaning Tutorial will show you how to: 1. Set up a new case for Acid Gas Cleaning, including component lists and the special Acid Gas property package. 2. Work in the Simulation environment to build the model flowsheet. In this tutorial, you will create the model for the “Acid Gas Cleaning Using MDEA.hsc” example case, found in the \Samples\Acid Gas Cleaning directory of your HYSYS installation Note: Due to regular updates, changes, and improvements in Aspen HYSYS releases, the calculation results in your simulation may vary slightly from those in the tutorial. If you are not getting the same results as those in the tutorial, please proceed anyway. It is more important that you get the end-to-end overview of the basic HYSYS setup and simulation process than to match the results of this particular case.About This Case When you finish the tutorial, you will have a completed case with a fully setup Properties environment and flowsheet for the process of Acid Gas Cleaning using the amine solvent, MDEA (methyl diethanolamine). The case explores the model of a plant that removes carbon-dioxide and hydrogen-sulfide from gas coming from upstream operations. This is a key operation in the Midstream and Refining industries to ensure that product gases meet product quality and emissions standards while operating at optimal conditions. In the simulation, a Feed Gas stream, containing light hydrocarbons, H2S, and CO2, enters the absorber, along with a Lean Amine stream containing the removal solvent MDEA, solution water, and some recycled acid gases (H2S and C02). The absorber uses the MDEA to absorb and remove CO2 and H2S from the gas stream. This cleaned gas stream (Sweet Gas) is then passed on for further processing, such as dehydration and fractionation, before it can be sold. The flowsheet for this process appears below. —e The Amine stream, which is now rich in acid gases, is passed to a regenerator column that removes H2S and CO2 from the amine stream by providing heat and reducing pressure. This amine stream is recycled back to the absorber for further absorption of incoming gas after water and amine are added to it in the Surge Tank to make up for losses.Setting Up the Properties Environment The first step in building a HYSYS flowsheet is setting up the Properties Environment. In the Properties environment, you select the components that will be used in the simulation and group them into Component Lists. You must also select one or more Property Packages, which are models for the calculation methods for physical properties. The combination of a Component List and a Property Package is called a Fluid Package; you must define a complete Fluid Package before moving on to the Simulation Environment. Setting up the Acid Gas Cleaning process is different from setting up other processes in that HYSYS automatically selects the Acid Gas property package for you when it detects an acid gas-specific component list. With any other basis setup, you select the property package to apply to the components list.