Abstract
Abstract Over the years, the increasing prices of crude oil and environmental issues have been the major factors for the development of GTL technology. With over 910 Tcf of natural gas reserves in Qatar (gas-in-place and recoverable resources), there is tremendous capacity for additional GTL plants in Qatar. Out of the global projected GTL production of 1.92 million B/d, Qatar alone already has planned to produce 696,000 B/d (36% of total global production). One of the efficient ways of using the exothermic heat from GTL is for desalination. This helps in reducing a large quantity of the fresh fuel to be used as energy input for desalination. The need for this study is to investigate the availability of exothermic heat from the Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) process to desalinate seawater thereby producing substantial volumes for industrial and/or domestic sectors. This is performed by first designing a schematic base case model of the GTL operation using Aspen Plus. The quantity and quality of heat available from the cooling of the syngas and syncrude streams is used as the energy source for the desalination process. Both thermal desalination and reverse osmosis processes are considered to determine the optimal process for desalination. An integrated GTL-Desalination (GTL-D) process is later designed to compare the output ratio of the GTL-D as opposed to a standalone desalination process.
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