Abstract
Recovery and purification of ethane has a significant impact on economic benefit improvement of the high-ethane content natural gas. However, current LNG-NGL integrated processes mainly focus on conventional natural gas, which are not applicable to natural gas with high ethane content. To fill this gap, three dual mixed refrigerant processes are proposed for simulation study of high-ethane content natural gas liquefaction. The proposed processes are optimized by a combination method of sequence optimization and genetic algorithm. Comparatively analysis is conducted to evaluate the three processes from the energetic and exergetic points of view. The results show that the power consumption of Process 3 which compressing natural gas after distillation is the lowest. For safety or other considerations, some common compositions of the mixed refrigerant may need to be removed under certain circumstances. Considering this, case studies of mixed refrigerant involving six composition combinations are carried out to investigate the effects of refrigerant selection on the process performance.
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