DEW POINT CONTROL PLANT SIMULATION

EXCERSICE
A dew point control plant to condition 75 MMSCFD (outlet capacity) will be built to
operate in a gas condensate field. The gas processed for the unit shall meet the
hydrocarbon and water dew point specification given here below in this document. The
liquid stream shall meet the RVP requirements given here below.

DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRENT PROCESS SCHEME

Wellhead stream will be directed to the slug catcher. The Gas Processing Plant will
process the gas, liquid hydrocarbons, and water from the slug catcher. The gas from the
slug catcher will be sent to a high-pressure separator, then to the glycol dehydration unit,
and to the dew point control plant based on mechanical refrigeration.

The liquid from the Slug Catcher will be let down in pressure to about 500 psig as it flows
into the Medium Pressure Production Separator. There is combined with the liquid
extracted from the gas during the dew pointing operation. The Medium Pressure
Production Separator functions as a three-phase separator. It separates the gas which
evolves due to the pressure letdown from the water and hydrocarbon liquid. The water
will be treated and possibly some of it will be used for irrigation. The hydrocarbon liquid
will be stabilized using a Condensate Stabilizer.

DESIGN FEED

Reservoir and well operating conditions will be as follows:

Reservoir pressure: 10050 psig

Reservoir temperature: 260 F
Maximum flowing wellhead pressure: 9000 psig
Shut-in wellhead pressure: 9500 psig
Wellhead flowing temperature: 200 F
Reservoir Dew Point 6400 psig
Flowstream temp coming to the plant: 180 F
Flowstream press coming to the plant: 1800 psig

Table 1 shows the feed gas composition.

 TABLE 1. Feed Gas
Component
Year 2008-2015
DESIGN GAS
N2 0,89
CO2 1,57
METHANE 78,81
ETHANE 8,21
PROPANE 3,14
I-BUTANE 0,72
N-BUTANE 1,08
I-PENTANE 0,59
N-PENTANE 0,47
HEXANE 0,78
HEPTANE 0,67
OCTANE 1,01
NONANE 0,61
DECANE 0,44
UNDECANE+ (290 MW) 1,01
H2S 0
H2O Saturated

The inlet flow stream will be 8996 lb-mol/hr

DESIGN CAPACITY AND BATTERY LIMIT CONDITIOS

The project is designed to produce 75 MMSCFD of treated gas. The delivery pressure at
battery limit conditions will be 1700 psig.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION

GTP gas shall be salable treated gas, once dehydrated and dew pointed. This means a
maximum dew point of 32 oF at 640 psig. Water content will be maximum 7 lbs/MMSCF.

The higher heating value shall be minimum 1034 btu/scf

The liquid produced in the GTP shall have a RVP of 13 and 1% water and sediments. A
stabilization column will be provided for this purpose.

PROBLEM GUIDE

1. The problem will be based on the Margarita EPF plant

2. See how to change units on: Tools / preferences / variables

3. Create reservoir feed taking into account composition and plant arrival conditions

4. Saturate the inlet flow to take into account water

5. Simulate control valve to adjust plat operating pressure to 1000 psig

6. Simulate inlet air cooler to adjust feed entering at 130 F

7. Simulate two phase slug catcher and condensate control valve to IP: 280 psig

8. Simulate high pressure depurator and glycol filter.

9. Simulate the glycol unit as component splitter. Water flowing at the bottom

10. Simulate cooling system (E-103, E-104 and V-106). Consider C3 refrigeration
cycle from 45 psia to 295 psia. S/T heat exchanger 1 shell at first approach

11. Preheat cool liquid stream with refrigeration propane downstream of condenser
using E-105 heat exchanger. Mix condensate and V-106 liquid stream to IP
separator V-102

12. Split HC stream from V-102. Stream 7 will be a 33 % for stabilizer reflux. Use
splitter parameter.

13. Introduce S/T heat exchanger to preheat column feed up to 180 F

14. Introduce a 14 stages non reflux condensate stabiliser. Feed will enter at 7th
theoretical stage. Other feed at stage 1th. Only spec will be 13 RVP on bottom.
Top pressure is 150 psig while.
 15. Cool down condensate stream to 130 F with and air cooler

16. Compress vapor overhead to HP in two stages. Consider Air Cooler Outlet Temp
of 133 F.

17. Combine Vapors from V-102 with vapors of column overhead compressor.
Compress to HP

18. Introduce compressed vapors upstream of filter V-104. Is it a recycle?. What

happens with 25?.

19. Change HX outlet temp at 100 F.

20. See and Fix problem with E-101.

UTILITIES

21. Verify that the process produce 75 MMSCFD of treated gas and equivalent
standard liquids, using stream property table on streams 24/20-L: right button over
the stream arrow, show table

22. Verify process specification using utilities. Verify LHV spec meeting using
extension: gas properties. Verify RVP spec using RVP property extension. Notice
how O2 & N2 are created to simulate RVP test.

23. Check dew point specification. How could it be optimized?

24. Verify VP liquid specification

25. Calculate line diameter on condensate export pump suction (20-L) using 0,5
psi/100 ft (tools / utilities / pipe sizing)

26. Calculate slug catcher liquid level control valve using valve rating

27. Calculate V-106 size using utilities.

SUBFLOSHEETS (add operation/subflowsheet: start with blank flowsheet

 Create a subflosheet for residual gas compression

 Create a subflowsheet for Refrigeration cycle

 Create a new PFD using PFD/add PFD. See how it is copied and then hide objects
in these. You can reverse what is done by reveal hidden objects.

REPORTS

 Create a stream report: tools/reports