Simulation and Analysis of a Petrochemical Process (Deethanizer Column- MLE field) using HYSYS Aspen Simulator

Abstract

Natural gas industry has a great strategic and economic importance; it becomes one of the most attractive business opportunities in the petroleum and petrochemical field. In order to produce high quality gas, many companies all over the world including Algeria create many plants for natural gas processing to clean raw natural gas, by using separation unites and other services to get a product that respect the commercial specifications. Natural gas fractions are separated by distillation column in our case is called deethanizer tower. In this work a dynamic simulation study of deethanizer column is developed and implemented in HYSYS simulator. Simulation results prove that the HYSYS is a powerful tool to simulate industrial processes such that the simulated results are close to the real ones.