Theoretical effect of concentration, circulation rate, stages, pressure and temperature of single amine and amine mixture solvents on gas sweetening performance

This simulation experiment performed by Aspen Hysys is about theoretical investigation of gas sweetening performance of single amine solvents MEA1, MDEA2, DEA3, DGA4, DIPA5 and mixed amine solvents DGA-MEA, DEA-MDEA and SULFOLANE6-MDEA. Sweet gas having very high percentage of methane is produced by MEA (95.36%), DGA-MEA (95.37%), DEA-MDEA (95.51%) and SULFOLANE-MDEA (95.10%) and DGA (93.76%) shows lowest performance. DGA, SULFOLANE-MDEA, MDEA remove H2S at a lower circulation rate and DEA, DIPA need higher but satisfactory circulation rate. Increasing stage number shows positive effect on DEA, DIPA and SULFOLANE-MDEA. Pressure change has no significant effect. Temperature increase and methane percentage are negatively correlated for all solvents (except low circulating DIPA). With temperature increase H2S composition increases for DEA-MDEA, DGA-MEA; CO2 increases for DEA-MDEA, DGA-MEA and high circulating SULFOLANE-MDEA.