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Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process
A significant proportion of natural gas (NG) is produced in cold climates, where conditions are relevant to the formation of gas hydrates in raw gas stream. Methanol is often used as an effective inhibitor of hydrate formation. Further conditioning of NG includes dehydration, and the most common pro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9786195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36557083 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes12121176 |
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author | Miroshnichenko, Daria Teplyakov, Vladimir Shalygin, Maxim |
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description | A significant proportion of natural gas (NG) is produced in cold climates, where conditions are relevant to the formation of gas hydrates in raw gas stream. Methanol is often used as an effective inhibitor of hydrate formation. Further conditioning of NG includes dehydration, and the most common process of water vapor removal from NG is absorption. Absorption also provides removal of methanol vapors, which allows it reuse. The membrane method of natural gas dehydration is considered as a promising alternative; however, the study of methanol recovery by the membrane method, simultaneously to the dehydration of NG, has not been carried out previously. In addition, data on methanol vapor transfer in gas separation polymer membranes are almost absent in the literature. This paper evaluates the permeability coefficients of methanol vapors for several polymer materials, which are applied to the production of industrial membranes (PPO, PSf, CA). Mathematical modeling of the membrane process of NG dehydration with simultaneous recovery of methanol was performed. The dependencies of membrane area, methanol recovery and energy consumption for methane recycling and recompression on the process parameters are calculated. Obtained data show that the recovery of methanol during membrane dehydration of NG varies in the range 57–95%. The lowest values of membrane area and specific energy consumption were found for PPO based membrane. |
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spelling | pubmed-97861952022-12-24 Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process Miroshnichenko, Daria Teplyakov, Vladimir Shalygin, Maxim Membranes (Basel) Article A significant proportion of natural gas (NG) is produced in cold climates, where conditions are relevant to the formation of gas hydrates in raw gas stream. Methanol is often used as an effective inhibitor of hydrate formation. Further conditioning of NG includes dehydration, and the most common process of water vapor removal from NG is absorption. Absorption also provides removal of methanol vapors, which allows it reuse. The membrane method of natural gas dehydration is considered as a promising alternative; however, the study of methanol recovery by the membrane method, simultaneously to the dehydration of NG, has not been carried out previously. In addition, data on methanol vapor transfer in gas separation polymer membranes are almost absent in the literature. This paper evaluates the permeability coefficients of methanol vapors for several polymer materials, which are applied to the production of industrial membranes (PPO, PSf, CA). Mathematical modeling of the membrane process of NG dehydration with simultaneous recovery of methanol was performed. The dependencies of membrane area, methanol recovery and energy consumption for methane recycling and recompression on the process parameters are calculated. Obtained data show that the recovery of methanol during membrane dehydration of NG varies in the range 57–95%. The lowest values of membrane area and specific energy consumption were found for PPO based membrane. MDPI 2022-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9786195/ /pubmed/36557083 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes12121176 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Miroshnichenko, Daria Teplyakov, Vladimir Shalygin, Maxim Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title | Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title_full | Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title_fullStr | Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title_full_unstemmed | Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title_short | Recovery of Methanol during Natural Gas Dehydration Using Polymeric Membranes: Modeling of the Process |
title_sort | recovery of methanol during natural gas dehydration using polymeric membranes: modeling of the process |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9786195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36557083 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes12121176 |
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