- Title
- An indirect method to evaluate the performance of the activated carbon filters in the amine sweetening process
- Creator
- Mofarahi, Masoud; Afkhamipour, Morteza; Benhelal, Emad
- Relation
- Separation Science and Technology Vol. 51, Issue 10, p. 1627-1635
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01496395.2016.1176045
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In order to maintain the quality of amine circulation in the gas-sweetening process, activated carbon filters are used to remove hydrocarbons, degradation products, and antifoam from amine circulation. In this study, a new indirect gas chromatography analysis is proposed to evaluate saturation point of the activated carbon filters. In this method, the measured compositions of gas-phase hydrocarbons in equilibrium with amine solution samples (from the inlet and the outlet of the filter) were applied to estimate hydrocarbon compositions in amine solution by a thermodynamic model. The proposed method described in this study is believed to be a simple and viable approach to evaluate the performance of the activated carbon filters in the amine scrubbing plants.
- Subject
- activated carbon filter; gas sweetening; gas chromatography; amine scrubbing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1477832
- Identifier
- uon:50037
- Identifier
- ISSN:0149-6395
- Language
- eng
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