Dynamics break the bottleneck
Author(s)
Prabhat Panigrahy, Jens Balmer, Miquel Àngel Alós, Michael Brodkorb and Brian Marshall
Magazine
2011. Hydrocarbon Engineering, September, pages: 93-95
Abstract/Summary
Flare and relief systems commonly found in processing plants in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries are constantly under examination. New constructions, extension of existing plants or changes in safety regulations all require detailed analysis of several aspects of the flare and relief system. In many cases, steady state analysis will suffice; but more often than not, complex or marginal problems require dynamic analysis to resolve an apparently bottlenecked flare system. This approach has recently been successfully applied to analyse and improve the blow down strategy for an existing gas utilisation plant (GUP) owned and operated by Wintershall in Libya
