Troubleshooting liquid carryover in gas compression systems

Avoiding common pitfalls in separator design and analysing operations problems

Two- and three-phase separators are core elements of gas production, LNG and Midstream gas processing. Poor performance of separation equipment is associated with $10,000,000s production losses daily, across the industry.
• What goes wrong?
• How can we fix?
• How can we avoid mal-performance?

This is a two-part presentation and interactive-workshop session.

Part 1: MySep will discuss some of the more common pitfalls in design including: inappropriate performance requirements; reliance on hardware-vendor performance guarantee; potential for non-ideal flow conditions; impact of sizing and layout of upstream piping.

Drawing on over two decades of trouble-shooting and debottlenecking experience world-wide the presentations will feature comprehensive case studies including real industry applications. Material will include illustrations and videos of CFD modelling and physical lab testing.

Part 2: MySep lead an interactive workshop session looking at common design challenges and drawing on input and feedback from the audience. Examples of good design practice will be illustrated with some live demonstration exploiting the MySep software application. Retro-fit studies, considering requirements beyond the original design envelope, will be explored as will screening of designs for floating production and processing.

Embedding rigorous separator modelling inside process simulation is one of the latest areas of technical development from MySep. This permits operators to optimize overall process performance more effectively and allows a more holistic approach to optimization of the process, benefiting conceptual studies, FEED and detailed engineering. The impact MySep-RunTime will be demonstrated live within Aspen HYSYS® steady state and dynamic simulations.