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Ding, He; Sun, Heng; He, Ming
Applied thermal engineering, 01/2016, Volume: 93Journal Article
•A refrigerant composition matching method for N2–CH4 expansion processes.•Efficiency improvements for propane pre-cooled N2–CH4 expansion processes.•The process shows good adaptability to varying natural gas compositions. An expansion process with a pre-cooling system is simulated and optimised by Aspen HYSYS and MATLAB™. Taking advantage of higher specific refrigeration effect of methane and easily reduced refrigeration temperature of nitrogen, the designed process adopts N2–CH4 as a mixed refrigerant. Based on the different thermodynamic properties and sensitivity difference of N2 and CH4 over the same heat transfer temperature range, this work proposes a novel method of matching refrigerant composition which aims at single-stage or multi-stage series expansion liquefaction processes with pre-cooling systems. This novel method is applied successfully in propane pre-cooled N2–CH4 expansion process, and the unit power consumption is reduced to 7.09 kWh/kmol, which is only 5.35% higher than the global optimised solutions obtained by genetic algorithm. This novel method can fulfil the accomplishments of low energy consumption and high liquefaction rate, and thus decreases the gap between the mixed refrigerant and expansion processes in energy consumption. Furthermore, the high exergy efficiency of the process indicates good adaptability to varying natural gas compositions.
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