Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing explores the natural gas industry from the wellhead to the marketplace.

Features:

• Provides an overview of the natural gas industry with emphasis on processes
• Discusses advantages, limitations, and ranges of applicability of major plant processes
• Describes ways to calculate initial cost estimates of selected processes within a concise overview of plant economics
• Examines the methods involved in the growing field of natural gas liquefaction
• Includes a glossary of terminology as well as an extensive appendix on thermophysical properties

Contents

Overview of Natural Gas Industry

• Sources of Natural Gas
• Natural Gas Compositions
• Classification
• Processing and Principal Products
• Product Specifications
• Combustion Characteristics

Overview of Gas Plant Processing

• Roles of Gas Plants
• Plant Processes
• Important Support Components
• Contractual Agreements and Economics

Field Operations and Inlet Receiving

• Field Operations
• Gas Hydrates
• Inlet Receiving
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Compression

• Fundamentals
• Compressor Types
• Capacity and Power Calculations
• Comparison of Reciprocating and Centrifugal Compressors
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Gas Treating

• Solvent Absorption Processes
• Physical Absorption
• Adsorption
• Cryogenic Fractionation
• Membranes
• Nonregenerable Hydrogen Sulfide Scavengers
• Biological Processes
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Gas Dehydration

• Water Content of Hydrocarbons
• Gas Dehydration Processes
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Hydrocarbon Recovery

• Process Components
• Recovery Processes
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Nitrogen Rejection

• Nitrogen Rejection for Gas Upgrading
• Nitrogen Rejection for Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Trace-Component Recovery or Removal

• Helium
• Mercury
• (BTEX) Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene

Liquids Processing

• Condensate Processing
• NGL Processing
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Sulfur Recovery

• Properties of Sulfur
• Sulfur Recovery Processes
• Sulfur Storage
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Transportation and Storage

• Gas
• Liquids

Liquefied Natural Gas

• Gas Treating before Liquefaction
• Liquefaction Cycles
• Storage of LNG
• Transportation
• Regasification and Cold Utilization of LNG
• Economics
• Plant Efficiency
• Safety and Environmental Considerations

Capital Costs of Gas Processing Facilities

• Basic Premises for Cost Data
• Amine Treating
• Glycol Dehydration
• NGL Recovery with Straight Refrigeration (Low Ethane Recovery)
• NGL Recovery with Cryogenic Processing (High Ethane Recovery)
• Sulfur Recovery and Tail Gas Cleanup
• NGL Extraction Plant Costs for Larger Facilities
• Corrections to Cost Data

Natural Gas Processing Plants

• Plant with Sweet Gas Feed and 98% Ethane Recovery
• Plant with Sour Gas Feed, NGL, and Sulfur Recovery
• Plant with Sour Gas Feed NGL Recovery and Nitrogen Rejection

Index

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