A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant
Natural gas has recently emerged as an important source of clean energy. Improving operational efficiency of a gas processing plant (GPP) may significantly increase its profit margin. This proves to be a challenging problem due to the time-varying nature of the feedstock compositions and business sc...
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| author | Yusoff, Nooryusmiza Ramasamy , Marappagounder Yusup, Suzana |
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| description | Natural gas has recently emerged as an important source of clean energy. Improving operational efficiency of a gas processing plant (GPP) may significantly increase its profit margin. This proves to be a challenging problem due to the time-varying nature of the feedstock compositions and business scenarios. Such fluctuations in operational and economic conditions are handled by employing advanced process control (APC). Reasonably accurate steady-state and dynamic simulation models of the actual plant are required for the effective implementation of APC. This paper deals with the development of such models. Here, a refrigerated gas plant (RGP), which is the low temperature separation unit (LTSU) of the GPP, is modeled under HYSYS environment. Calibration and validation of the steady-state model of the RGP are performed based on the actual plant data. A dynamic model is also built to act as a virtual plant. Main control philosophies of the virtual plant are reported in this paper. This virtual plant model serves as a platform for performing APC studies. |
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| spelling | oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:17402017-01-19T08:26:11Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/1740/ A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant Yusoff, Nooryusmiza Ramasamy , Marappagounder Yusup, Suzana TP Chemical technology Natural gas has recently emerged as an important source of clean energy. Improving operational efficiency of a gas processing plant (GPP) may significantly increase its profit margin. This proves to be a challenging problem due to the time-varying nature of the feedstock compositions and business scenarios. Such fluctuations in operational and economic conditions are handled by employing advanced process control (APC). Reasonably accurate steady-state and dynamic simulation models of the actual plant are required for the effective implementation of APC. This paper deals with the development of such models. Here, a refrigerated gas plant (RGP), which is the low temperature separation unit (LTSU) of the GPP, is modeled under HYSYS environment. Calibration and validation of the steady-state model of the RGP are performed based on the actual plant data. A dynamic model is also built to act as a virtual plant. Main control philosophies of the virtual plant are reported in this paper. This virtual plant model serves as a platform for performing APC studies. 2008-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/1740/2/NooryusmizaYusoff_FOCAPO2008.pdf Yusoff, Nooryusmiza and Ramasamy , Marappagounder and Yusup, Suzana (2008) A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant. In: International Conference on Foundation of Computer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO2008), June 29 – July 2, 2008, Boston, MA, USA. |
| spellingShingle | TP Chemical technology Yusoff, Nooryusmiza Ramasamy , Marappagounder Yusup, Suzana A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title | A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title_full | A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title_fullStr | A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title_short | A Simulation Study on Dynamics and Control of a Refrigerated Gas Plant |
| title_sort | simulation study on dynamics and control of a refrigerated gas plant |
| topic | TP Chemical technology |
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