PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • HANDLING
Want to lose inches and kilos? Femke Schaefer reveals a serious diet for the petrochemical industry
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or obvious reasons, a lot of projects have been on hold in the region of Iran over the past few years. One such project is the Bid Boland II Gas Processing Project, to be constructed in the Khusestan
Province in South Western Iran. Although awarded to EIED (Energy Industries, Engineering & Design) in November 2007, the project has been on hold three times and a new owner, the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Company, revived the project in 2015. Tis allowed the engineers of Bronswerk (BHT) to redesign a part of the process in such a way that serious reductions of plot space, material and operational costs could be realised, a substantial advantage of involving BHT when changes like the ones explained in this article can still be made. Tis multi-billion Euro project consists of a
refinery with a processing capacity of 57 million m3 day of sour and sweet gases from four Gas & NGL
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WEIGHT-SAVING SOLUTIONS
plants in the region. Additionally it includes 600km of feed and product pipelines, an export terminal in Mahshahr and a 600 unit residential camp plus industrial and non-industrial buildings and related facilities. Te production capacity of the refinery consists of 15 billion m3
/year sweet gas, 1.48 million
ton/year ethane, 1.51 million ton/year LPG and 0.86 million ton/year NGL. Tis project is characterised by vast dimensions and big numbers, where any alternative solution in terms of plot space, energy consumption or weight reduction has the potential to translate into an enormous positive impact on the overall capital investment and also the operational costs of this project. Te new owner has taken this opportunity to search for such alternative solutions with regards to the shell and tube heat exchangers of the Bid Boland gas treating plant. As mentioned, this project is characterised by vast dimensions and big numbers. Te plant consists
The new treated gas cooler on the right (one) replacing the two treated gas coolers following datasheet design
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