WO2016156674A1 - Procédé de déazotation du gaz naturel - Google Patents
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- Natural gas is desirable for use as a fuel for use in heating buildings, to provide heat for industrial processes for the generation of electricity, for use as a feedstock for various synthesis processes for produce olefins, polymers and the like.
- the exploited natural gas fields contain more and more nitrogen.
- Unconventional resources such as shale gas also have the same problem: to make them marketable, it may be necessary to increase their calorific value by means of a treatment that consists in de-gasing the gas.
- NTL natural gas-associated liquids
- a first unit operates the separation of NGL (later called NGL unit) while a second unit separates nitrogen from natural gas (later called NRU unit).
- This solution has the advantage of flexibility in operation. For example, if the NRU has a refrigeration cycle, the associated machines have limited reliability, and failure of a cycle compressor will cause the NRU to shut down, but without stopping the NGL.
- this stop can not be long since it will then send to the flare production (because of its calorific value too low).
- this scheme is limited in efficiency because all the gas is cooled and then warmed in the NGL unit and then cooled and heated in the NRU.
- the present invention relates to a process for separating the components of a gaseous mixture to be treated comprising methane, nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon having at least two carbon atoms, or a mixture of these hydrocarbons, comprising the steps following:
- a gaseous mixture extracted from the demethanizer column to obtain a liquid at least a portion of which is treated to be extracted as a de-nitrogenized natural gas product and a second gas; d) introducing said second gas and / or gaseous mixture into a denitrogenization column from which a gas and a liquid are obtained, at least a portion of which is treated to be extracted as a de-nitrogenated natural gas product; e) treating said gas from step d) in a denitrogenation system to produce a gaseous stream comprising at most 5 mol% of nitrogen and a nitrogen gas stream comprising at most 8 mol% of methane;
- an object of the present invention relates to a process for separating the components of a gaseous mixture to be treated comprising methane, nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon having at least two carbon atoms, or a mixture of these hydrocarbons. , comprising the steps of: a) demethanizing said gaseous mixture with at least one demethanizer column;
- step e) treating said gas from step d) in a denitrogenation system to produce a gaseous stream comprising at most 5 mol% of nitrogen and a nitrogen gas stream comprising at most 8 mol% of methane;
- step b) and c) does not exceed -50 ° C and the gas is heated to a temperature above -10 ° C before being cooled to a temperature below -50 ° C C in said denitrogenation system.
- the method which is the subject of the present invention comprises at least the following characteristics:
- step a) comprises the following steps: At least partial condensation of said gaseous mixture to be treated in order to obtain a diphasic mixture;
- the gaseous mixture, extracted from the demethanizer column, condensed in step c) comprises at most half the amount of hydrocarbons having more than two carbon atoms present in the gas. 'food.
- step e) of treating said gas from step d) in a denitrogenation system produces a gas stream comprising at most 5 mol% of nitrogen and a stream of nitrogen gas comprising not more than 2 mol% of methane.
- step d) characterized in that the gas resulting from step d) comprises between 10 mol% and 90 mol% of nitrogen.
- liquid extracted from the demethanization column during step b) comprises at least 90 mol% of hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms and preferably at least 95%.
- a process as defined above characterized in that said gaseous mixture to be treated comprises 70 mol% of methane, at least 4 mol% of nitrogen and 2 mol% of hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms.
- the said gaseous mixture to be treated comprises at least 0.05 mol% of helium.
- a process as defined above characterized in that it comprises an additional step f) following the step e) of producing a stream comprising at least 20 mol% of helium from said denitrogenation system.
- a stream 1 of pretreated natural gas (separation of water, CO 2 , methanol, very heavy hydrocarbons, that is to say having more than six or seven carbon atoms (such as C8 + for example) comprising at least 30 mol% of methane, 0.1 mol% of hydrocarbons heavier than the methane (that is to say comprising at least two carbon atoms) and 4 mol% of nitrogen is introduced into a system 2 allowing at least partial condensation of said stream 1.
- the pressure of this stream 1 is between 20 bara (absolute bar) and 100 bara (typically between 30 and 70 bara) and the temperature is close to room temperature, for example between 10 ° C and 30 ° C.
- the system 2 is for example a heat exchanger.
- the mixture 3 leaving this system 2 is in a two-phase state (gas and liquid). This mixture 3 is introduced into a phase separator pot 4.
- the operating pressure is between 20 and 100 bara, typically between 20 and 100 bara
- the temperature of this pot is between -100 ° C and 0 ° C, typically between -80 ° C and -20 ° C.
- the liquid phase 5 from the separator pot 4 is expanded through a valve 6 and then injected at a pressure of between 10 bara and 40 bara and a temperature of, for example, between -10.degree. C. and -30.degree. a demethanization column 7.
- demethanizer column is meant a distillation unit for producing at least two streams of different compositions from feed streams from stream 1 of natural gas to be treated according to the method of the present invention.
- the at least two streams are the following: one gas, depleted in hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms, that is to say comprising less than half of the so-called heavy hydrocarbons contained in the feed gas (ethane propane, butane, etc.) and the other, in liquid form, containing less than 5 mol% of the methane initially present in stream 1 of natural gas to be treated.
- the feed gas ethane propane, butane, etc.
- demethanization unit any system comprising at least one distillation column to enrich the methane in the overhead gas and to lower the methane tank liquid.
- At least a portion of the gas phase (only a portion typically) 8 from the separator pot 4 is expanded by means of a turbine 9.
- the flow coming from the turbine 9 is introduced into the column 7 at a stage 10 higher than the stage where the liquid 5 is introduced at the outlet of the valve 6.
- a liquid stream 12 of hydrocarbons heavier than methane is recovered in the lower part 16 of column 7.
- a reboiler 1 1 is placed at a level to reboil the bottom liquid of the column 7 to heat a portion of the liquid of said column in order to adjust the maximum threshold of methane contained in the stream 12 of heavy hydrocarbons .
- At least 50% (typically at least 85%) molar heavy hydrocarbons present in the gaseous mixture 1 to be treated are recovered in this stream 12. Preferably at least 90% is recovered.
- the hydrocarbon liquid stream 12 does not contain more than 1 mol% of methane.
- a gas stream 15 enriched in methane typically containing less than 0.5 mol% of hydrocarbons having more than two carbon atoms (containing at most the half of the amount of heavy hydrocarbons - having more than 2 carbon atoms - present in the feed gas) is extracted.
- the temperature of the gas stream is less than -80 ° C.
- the cold can be recovered by condensing a gas enriched in methane under pressure.
- This condensation is achieved by means of a heat exchanger 17 supplied at the same time by a part of the gas stream 8 coming from the separator pot 4 and by the gas stream enriched in methane 15 coming from the head 14 of the demethanization column 7.
- gas enriched in methane gas mixture containing methane, nitrogen and typically less than 0.5% of hydrocarbons having more than two carbon atoms (containing at most half the amount of heavy hydrocarbons - having more than two carbon atoms - present in the feed gas).
- the stream which has been reheated in the exchanger 17 contains at most half the amount of heavy hydrocarbons - having more than two carbon atoms - present in the feed gas.
- the diphasic current 22 is, after a possible expansion in a valve or a turbine 23, introduced into a phase separator pot 25.
- the liquid phase 29 coming from the phase separator pot 25 is, after a possible expansion in a valve (not shown in the figure), reheated through the heat exchangers 27 and then 21 and finally 2 in order to join the outlet stream 30 of the gas rich in methane produced at the end of the process.
- the outlet stream contains less than 5 mol% of nitrogen.
- the gaseous phase 26 coming from the separator pot 25 is partially condensed in a heat exchanger 27 and then expanded at the outlet of said exchanger 27 by means of a turbine or a valve before being introduced into a distillation column 31.
- the distillation column 31 is a so-called “stripping" column of nitrogen for the purpose of separating the nitrogen from the liquid enriched in output methane, also called denitrogenation column.
- the methane-enriched liquid comprises less than 5 mol% of nitrogen.
- This is a distillation column joined to a reboiler 32 but does not have an associated condenser system.
- a stream 33 rich in methane in liquid form is extracted.
- This stream 33 contains less than 5 mol% of nitrogen, preferably less than 4%.
- the liquid stream 33 is then mixed with the liquid phase 29 coming from the phase separator pot 25 and follows the same path to the outlet stream 30.
- a portion 32 of the mixed stream containing partly the liquid phase 29 and the liquid 33 and heated through the heat exchanger 27 is recycled to the lower portion 34 of the denitrogenation column 31.
- a nitrogen-rich gas stream 36 at a temperature below -1 10 ° C is produced.
- Said stream 36 rich in nitrogen comprises at least 20 mol% of nitrogen.
- the nitrogen-rich stream 36 is heated through the successive exchangers
- the denitrogenation system B aims to produce a gaseous flow even richer in nitrogen than the stream 37.
- This system B may for example include at least one separator pot and a denitrogenation column. If the nitrogen specification at the output of system B is strict ( ⁇ 100ppm typically), it may be necessary to add a cycle compressor, for example a nitrogen compressor, to the system B to provide the necessary reflux to obtain the purity of nitrogen at the top of the column of denazotation of system B.
- a cycle compressor for example a nitrogen compressor
- the method that is the subject of the present invention makes it possible to:
- denitrogenation system B if a failure occurs on the denitrogenation system B, it will still be possible to continue the implementation of the process and to produce a large part, typically at least 80%, of the desired products (denitrogenated methane) thanks to denitrogenation system A.
- the solution proposed is to partially integrate the denitrogenation system with the extraction system of products from the "NGL part”.
- This partial integration consists in integrating at least one first separator pot following the demethanization column of the "NGL process". From this first separator pot will be recovered, in liquid form, at least a portion of the natural gas product. This product will be denoted at least partially, allowing in certain cases to reach the specification in terms of calorific value of the product.
- a first denitrogenation column can be integrated into the "NGL part", this makes it possible to increase the proportion of product to the specification directly produced from the denitrogenation system.
- NNL part is meant all the steps of the process according to the invention prior to step c).
- a failure of the refrigeration cycle will then stop the denitrogenation but may maintain part of the production of nitrogen-containing natural gas and the production of products from the "NGL part".
- the implementation of the method according to the invention makes it possible, in addition to improving the reliability of the plant, to optimize the total cost of investment in optimizing the number of elements constituting the different units for implementing said method with respect to the flow rate entering each unit.
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