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Glycolinjection: This Spreadsheet Calculates The Minimum Amount of Required Inhibitor Usage. Instructions

This spreadsheet calculates the minimum amount of glycol needed to inhibit gas hydrates when injecting gas. It requires inputs like gas flow rate, pressure, temperature and water content and uses Hammerschmidt's method to determine the amount of glycol required. Based on the inputs provided, it finds that 187.2 lbs/MMscf of 75% ethylene glycol solution is required, equivalent to 249.6 lbs/MMscf or 27.49 gal/MMscf of commercial inhibitor solution.

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Glycolinjection: This Spreadsheet Calculates The Minimum Amount of Required Inhibitor Usage. Instructions

This spreadsheet calculates the minimum amount of glycol needed to inhibit gas hydrates when injecting gas. It requires inputs like gas flow rate, pressure, temperature and water content and uses Hammerschmidt's method to determine the amount of glycol required. Based on the inputs provided, it finds that 187.2 lbs/MMscf of 75% ethylene glycol solution is required, equivalent to 249.6 lbs/MMscf or 27.49 gal/MMscf of commercial inhibitor solution.

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GlycolInjection

This spreadsheet calculates the minimum amount of required inhibitor usage.


Input Data:
Gas flow rate: 10 MMscfd
Gas specific gravity (
g
): 0.7 air = 1
Minimum pressure (p
m
): 900 psia
Inlet gas temperature (t
i
): 90

o
F
Hydrate temperature p
m
: 64

o
F
Operating temperature (t
o
): 40

o
F
Water content at t
i
and p
m
: 48 lb/MMscf
Water content at t
o
and p
m
: 9.6 lb/MMscf
Inhibitor data: Used (1=Yes; 0=No)? W
in
W
out
Density:
EG 1 75% 65% 9.08 ppg
DEG 0 75% 65% 9.08 ppg
Concentration of inhibitor in its commercial solution: 75 Wt %
Intermediate Calculations:
Water to be removed from gas (w
G
): 38.4 lb/MMscf
Molecular weight of inhibitor (MW)
inh
: 62
Density of inhibitor (
inh
): 9.08 ppg
Hammerschmidt constant for inhibitor (K
H
): 4000
Depression of hydrate formation temperature (At
h
): 24

o
F
W
out
for the selected inhibitor: 65 Wt %
W
in
for the selected inhibitor: 75 Wt %
Inhibitor requirement based on Hammerschmidt's method:
= 27.11 Wt % -1
Inlet concentration to be used: 75 Wt % 1
= 187.20 lb/MMscf
Result:
Required volume of commercial inhibitor solution: 249.6 lb/MMscf
Required weight of commercial inhibitor solution: 27.49 gal/MMscf
Hourly inhibitor injection rate: 11.45 gal/hour
Daily inhibitor injection rate: 274.89 gal/day
Instructions:
1) Update input data in blue;
2) View result.
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+ A
A
=
H h inh
h inh
h
K t MW
t MW
W
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W W
W
I
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