Membranes are attractive for upgrading natural gas; however, the gas permeation processes through membranes challenging to control. The coexistence of condensable H2S and CO2 typically causes membrane performance decline under practical feed conditions, due uncontrolled penetrant competition undesired plasticization polymer matrix. In this paper, we report a strategy successfully transform thes...

As oil and gas reserves become depleted, producers are increasingly driven to process difficult or unconventional petrochemical fuel sources to sell to the market in order to meet rising demand. One such source is the production of sour gas wells that contain high levels of mercaptan (thiol) species. In sour gas processing applications, a waste acid gas stream (ie. a stream containing high conc...

Environmental considerations will probably change automobile fuels from gasoline and gas-oil to hydrogen (as fuel cell) in the future. Problems of fossil fuels include producing gaseous pollutants, such as NOx, CO, and even SO2 (from incomplete-hydrotreated fuels), which need catalytic converters and greenhouse gas emission (such as CO2, CH4, N2O) from the exhaust with a drastic effect on globa...

In gas and petroleum industry, the waste gas stream from the sweetening process of a sour natural gas stream is commonly referred as acid gas. Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) technology has the potential to exploit the combustible fraction of acid gas, H2S, to produce energy obtaining a flue gas highly concentrated on CO2 and SO2, which can be cost-effectively separated for subsequent applica...

Abstract This paper presents a model-based assessment of natural gas sweetening process combining high-pressure membrane contactor with conventional amine regeneration. The analysis builds on mathematical model the developed in companion paper, which is capable quantitative predictions CO2 and hydrocarbon absorption solvent evaporative losses to treated gas. predictive capability plant-wide tes...

Abstract This paper presents a predictive mathematical model of high-pressure membrane contactor, with view to developing plant-wide natural gas sweetening including amine regeneration. We build upon an existing contactor by Quek et al. [Chem Eng Res Des 132:1005–1019, 2018], which uses combination 1-d and 2-d mass-balance equations predict the CO2 absorption flux wetting under lean solvent ope...

Membrane technology can be used for both post combustion carbon dioxide capture and acidic gas sweetening and dehydration of natural gas. These processes are especially suited for polymeric membranes with polyether functionality, because of the high affinity of this species for both H₂O and CO₂. Here, both crosslinked polyethylene glycol diacrylate and a polyether-polyamide block copolymer (PEB...