UMUECHEM BOOSTER COMPRESSOR SELECTION AND SIZING - BASE CASE - FIRST STAGE

A. PROCESS PARAMETERS: STAGE CALCULATIONS

Stage Specific Power

Suction Pressure (ps)- Discharge Pressure Discharge Pressure Stage Shaft Absorbed
DESCRIPTION SUCTION DISCHARGE Stage Suction Pressure (ps) Pressure Ratio - r Disch. Temp (Td) Absorbed (from chart
2nd formular (pd) (pd)-2nd formular Power (KW)
1.2.3-4b)

1 Flow Rates 1 3.300 3.431 11.942 11.998 3.636 348.442 0.700 494.768

SYMBOL VALUE SYMBOL VALUE

Standard MMscf/d 6.9 6.9

Standard m3/h 8139.86 8139.86

3
Standard m /s qs(st) 2.26 qd(st) 2.26

COMPRESSOR POWER [kW]

2 Pressures (Bar) Total Shaft Power (Including 5% for data inacuracies) 519.51

Gauge 2.5 10.2 Total Driver Power (Including 4% for transmission losses) 540.29
Absolute Ps 3.5 Pd 11.2

GAS ENGINE DERATING

3 Temperatures Altitude (-3.5% ISO for every 300 m above 150 m) Sea Level 0.00

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria

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C 39.6 137.8 Temperature (-1.8% ISO for every 50C above 300C) 4.68% 565.57
K Ts 312.6 Td 410.8

4 Compressibility Factor Stage Polytropic Head [Hp] 214.29

Z Zs 0.9892 Zd 0.9871 No. of Impellers 7.14

Av. Comp. Fac Zav 0.9521

Polytropic Eff. (table

5 1.2.3-1)
Minimum np 0.800 NOTES

Maximum np 1.000 1 The calculations here presented are done in line with procedure outlined

Average np 0.900 in Production Handbook Vol. 9, Chapter 1, Section 1.2.3,

pages1-89 to 1-107.

Adiabatic exponent for

6 gas (Cp/Cv)

Minimum Cp/Cv 1.220 2 Indicates selected option in line with guidelines as stated

Maximun Cp/Cv 1.250 in Production Handbook.

Average k 1.235 3 Indicates Manual data input.

Polytropic exponent
7 for gas n 1.268

n-1 0.268

n/(n-1) 4.730

(n-1)/n 0.211

B. GENERAL CALCULATIONS
1 Actual Vol. [m3/s] qs 0.702 qd 0.288

2 Actual press. (bar)

ps1(large) 3.431 pdN (large) 11.592

ps1(small) 3.300 pdN (small) 11.550

Calculation Spreadsheet
Overall pressure ratio
3 (pdN/ps1) ro 3.51

4 Max. Stage Ratio rs 3.64

No. of Stages
5 (Logro/Logrs) Q 0.97 Nearest Whole No. 1

Theoretical Stage
6 Press. Ratio rQ 3.51

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AGS-TEF-OTU-M14-00001-000 Mechanical Datasheet Otumara Main Compressor Package
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