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Comparing the Volume and Energy Consumption of Sour‐Gas Cleaning by Condensed Rotational Separation and Amine Treatments
Author(s) -
van Kemenade H. P.,
Brouwers J. J. H.,
de Rijke S. J. M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
energy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2194-4296
pISSN - 2194-4288
DOI - 10.1002/ente.201300051
Subject(s) - amine gas treating , sour gas , volume (thermodynamics) , energy consumption , materials science , co2 removal , gas consumption , chemistry , environmental science , natural gas , chemical engineering , process engineering , thermodynamics , environmental engineering , physics , organic chemistry , engineering , carbon dioxide , electrical engineering
Sweet and sour: Many natural gas reserves are contaminated with sour, acid‐forming gases such as H 2 S and CO 2 . Two processes for the removal of CO 2 from CH 4 are compared in terms of volume and energy consumption. It is found that the traditional amine‐absorption process and a process based upon condensed rotational separation are complimentary, and the combination of both technologies could allow the exploitation of previously uneconomical gas fields.