title: Natural gas operations: considerations on process transients, design, and control.
abstract: This manuscript highlights tangible benefits deriving from the dynamic simulation and control of operational transients of natural gas processing plants. Relevant improvements in safety, controllability, operability, and flexibility are obtained not only within the traditional applications, i.e. plant start-up and shutdown, but also in certain fields apparently time-independent such as the feasibility studies of gas processing plant layout and the process design of processes. Specifically, this paper enhances the myopic steady-state approach and its main shortcomings with respect to the more detailed studies that take into consideration the non-steady state behaviors. A portion of a gas processing facility is considered as case study. Process transients, design, and control solutions apparently more appealing from a steady-state approach are compared to the corresponding dynamic simulation solutions.
authors: CMIC Dept. Giulio Natta, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 – 20133, Milano, Italy. flavio.manenti@polimi.it
authors: Flavio
authors: F
authors: Manenti
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006838:Hydrocarbons / Q000737:chemistry; D007221:Industry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D059206:Natural Gas; D012034:Refrigeration
chemical_list: D006838:Hydrocarbons; D059206:Natural Gas