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R6 - Sour Water Stripper: Process Data

The document describes modeling a sour water stripper column in PRO/II to reduce the ammonia content in sour water to 0.02% by weight. Key points: 1) A seven-stage sour water stripper column is modeled to process refinery sour water using 50 psia stripping steam. 2) 5436 lb/hr of 50 psia saturated stripping steam is required to meet the ammonia specification of 0.02% by weight in the stripped water bottoms stream. 3) The sour water stripper converges in 14 iterations, with the top temperature of 212°F and bottom temperature of 235°F.

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R6 - Sour Water Stripper: Process Data

The document describes modeling a sour water stripper column in PRO/II to reduce the ammonia content in sour water to 0.02% by weight. Key points: 1) A seven-stage sour water stripper column is modeled to process refinery sour water using 50 psia stripping steam. 2) 5436 lb/hr of 50 psia saturated stripping steam is required to meet the ammonia specification of 0.02% by weight in the stripped water bottoms stream. 3) The sour water stripper converges in 14 iterations, with the top temperature of 212°F and bottom temperature of 235°F.

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PRO/II Application Briefs

R6 - Sour Water Stripper


Refinery sour water is being processed in a sour water stripper
using 50 psia stripping steam. You wish to model the operation of
this column in order to determine the operating parameters which
will reduce the ammonia content in the sour water to 0.02 weight
percent.

Process Data
The process flowsheet for the sour water stripper is shown in Figure
R6-1 together with the sour water conditions.

Figure R6-1: Sour Water Stripper

You've estimated the 50 psia saturated stripping steam at 200 lb-


mole/hr and the bottoms rate at 1446 lb-mole/hr. The column
operates at 20.8 psia with a 2.17 psi pressure drop.

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Methods and Data


Sour Water system is used to predit equilibrium and enthalphy
conditions. This is a special data package provided as part of the
program specifically for sour water systems.
The components listed on the flowsheet diagram Figure R6-2 are
entered through the Component window . The Sour Water
system is selected from the Thermodynamic window.

Figure R6-2: Thermodynamic Data

Simulation Model
The stripper is modeled as an ordinary column with seven
theoretical stages. The sour water is fed to stage one and the
stripping steam is fed to stage seven. The stripping steam rate is
varied to meet the column performance specification of 0.02 weight
percent ammonia in the stripped water product.
The Inside/Out (I/O) algorithm is selected for rigorous solution of
the sour water stripper. The maximum number of iterations is
increased from the default of 15 to 25 because of the non-ideal
nature of the sour water system. A damping factor of 0.5 is
specified to facilitate column convergence for the same reason.
The CONVENTIONAL initial estimate generator is selected since
it normally provides good starting profiles for sour water systems.
Very occasionally it may be necessary to employ the more CPU
intensive CHEMICALS initial estimate generator for this system.

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Input Data
The column is laid down and the column data is entered through the
Column dialog box. Seven trays are specified. The condenser and
reboiler are removed by unchecking their check boxes in their Data
Entry Windows. Two feed streams are connected and supplied with
the data shown in Figure R6-1. An overhead and a bottoms product
also are connected. The purity of ammonia in the bottoms product,
which is the primary performance specification, is entered in the
Specifications and Variables dialog box shown in Figure R6-3.

Figure R6-3: Specifications and Variables

An initial rate of 200 lb-moles/hr is supplied for the stripping steam,


although the column algorithm will adjust that to meet the
specification.
The top pressure is entered as 20.8 psia with a 2.2 psi column
pressure drop. The sour water is fed to tray 1 and the stripping
steam is fed to tray 7. An initial estimate of 27,000 lb/hr of stripped
water is based on the sour water feed. The damping factor of 0.5 is
entered on the Convergence Data dialog box.

To get the K-value report at output time, the Component K-values


checkbox is checked in the Print Options dialog box.

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Keyword Input File


TITLE PROJECT=APPBRIEFS, PROBLEM=R6, USER=SIMSCI
PRINT INPUT=ALL, STREAM=ALL, RATE=M
COMPONENT DATA
LIBID 1,N2/ 2,METHANE/ 3,HYSULFID/ 4,AMMONIA/ &
5,CO2/ 6,HYCYANID/ 7,HEXANE/ 8,NONANE/ &
9,H2O, BANK=SIMSCI, PROCESS
THERMODYNAMIC DATA
METHOD SYSTEM=SOUR
STREAM DATA
PROPERTY STREAM=1, TEMPERATURE=150, PRESS=25, &
PHASE=M, COMPOSITION(WT,LB/H)=1,2/ 2,3/ &
3,795.654/ 4,810.56/ 5,5/ 6,0.238/ &
7, 0.595/ 8, 0.43/ 9,25584.7
PROPERTY STREAM=2, PRESSURE=50, PHASE=V, &
COMPOSITION(M,LBM/H)=9, 200
NAME 1,Sour Water/ 2,Steam/3,Off-gas / &
4,Stripeed Water
UNIT OPERATIONS
COLUMN UID=COL1, NAME=SWS
PARAMETER TRAY=7, IO=25, DAMPING=0.5
FEED 1,1/ 2,7
PRODUCT OVHD(M)=3, BTMS(WT)=4,27000, &
SUPERSEDE=ON
PSPEC PTOP=20.8, DPCOLUMN=2.2
PRINT PROPTABLE=BRIEF, PROFILE=NONE
ESTIMATE MODEL=CONVENTIONAL
SPEC ID=COL1SPEC1, STREAM=4, FRACTION(WT), &
COMP=4, VALUE=0.0002
VARY FEED=2
END

Results
The sour water stripper solves in 14 iterations. The top temperature
is 212 F and the bottom temperature is 235 F.
The sour water method correctly predicts the distribution of sour
water and hydrocarbon components. Note that the gasoline
(represented by nC6 and nC9) is stripped completely. The trace
quantity of HCN in the feed is not correctly distributed in the model
because it is not a part of the sour water package. In an actual plant,
significantly more than 10-15 lb-mole/hr of HCN would be present
in the bottoms product. The electrolyte version of PRO/II contains
thermodynamic models that can be used to predict HCN
distribution in sour water strippers.

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Conclusion
5436 lb/hr of 50 psia saturated stripping steam is required to reduce
the ammonia content in the sour water to 0.02 weight percent.
Output
Partial results are shown below for the simulation input given
above.
Figure R6-4: Column Summary

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Figure R6-5: Column Tray Data

Table R6-6: Tray K Values


Unit 1, Column “COL1” Tray K values
COMPONENT TRAY 1 TRAY 2 TRAY 3 TRAY 4
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
1 N2 7.0246E+04 7.1544E+04 7.1287E+04 7.0438E+04
2 METHANE 3.7353E+04 3.8842E+04 3.9119E+04 3.8862E+04
3 HYSULFID 1.5478E+01 1.3085E+01 1.2230E+01 1.1841E+01
4 AMMONIA 7.6969E+00 9.3703E+00 1.0241E+01 1.0688E+01
5 CO2 2.0587E+01 2.7724E+01 3.6177E+01 4.3448E+01
6 HYCYANID 2.7662E+03 2.9487E+03 2.9929E+03 2.9778E+03
7 HEXANE 1.1965E+05 1.3444E+05 1.3852E+05 1.3856E+05
8 NONANE 1.4632E+06 1.7201E+06 1.7896E+06 1.7910E+06
9 H2O 7.0319E-01 8.3710E-01 9.1627E-01 9.5978E-01

TEMP, F 211.784 221.606 227.257 230.631


PRESS, PSIA 20.800 21.167 21.533 21.900

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Unit 1, Column “COL1” Tray K values (Continued)
COMPONENT TRAY 5 TRAY 6 TRAY 7
---------- ---------- ----------
1 N2 6.9367E+04 6.8226E+04 6.7074E+04
2 METHANE 3.8376E+04 3.7798E+04 3.7190E+04
3 HYSULFID 1.1670E+01 1.1703E+01 1.2249E+01
4 AMMONIA 1.0895E+01 1.0966E+01 1.0923E+01
5 CO2 4.8998E+01 5.3619E+01 5.9738E+01
6 HYCYANID 2.9383E+03 2.8895E+03 2.8376E+03
7 HEXANE 1.3708E+05 1.3502E+05 1.3276E+05
8 NONANE 1.7685E+06 1.7378E+06 1.7045E+06
9 H2O 9.8187E-01 9.9257E-01 9.9763E-01

TEMPERATURE, F 232.749 234.220 235.370


PRESSURE, PSIA 22.267 22.633 23.000Stream Prop-
erties

Figure R6-7: Stream Properties

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Figure R6-8: Stream Properties (continued)

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