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Volume 7, Issue 4 (12-2023)
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Research subject: Millions of dollars of non-renewable capital are burned in flares every year, in the oil and gas industries, which in addition to polluting the air has no income for the industry. In Iran and South Pars region, due to the presence of gas refineries, a considerable amount of gas is burned in the flares. In this research, as a comprehensive study, the technical and economic investigation of the recovery of flare gases has been discussed.
Research approach: For this purpose, Aspen Plus software was used to simulate the desired unit in the set of flares of South Pars refinery phases 22-24. The simulation consists of two recovery parts: the flare gases recovery by use of a liquid ring compressor and power generation by the heat from the combustion of the flare gases through the application of the reheat steam Rankine cycle. The profitability of the project includes naphtha cuts and liquefied gas recovered from gases sent to the flare on one hand and power generation in turbines on the other hand.
Main results: The effect of the amount of air entering the combustion chamber on the temperature of the exhaust gas was investigated. The amount of air entering the combustion chamber was determined to be 2685 tons per hour in order to obtain supercritical water vapor with a temperature of about 650 ºC and a pressure of 26 kPa in the Rankine cycle. Using the simulation results, the temperature diagram was drawn in terms of entropy, and in addition to the steam phase diagram during the cycle, the steam Rankine cycle diagram was also drawn. The results of this research showed that the designed process will produce 5365 kg/h of naphtha, 179.45 kg/h of LPG, 25903 kW, and 101124 kW power in two separate turbines, and an annual sales income of 24,782,194 $. In addition, it was shown that the investment return period of this process is equal to 2.5 months.
Volume 10, Issue 1 (5-2020)
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Housing and its related policies are important for every government. The rapid growth of urban population and the lack of space and environmental problems caused by large industries have implanted these industries outside city limits. Aiming at preserving their workforce and making them more comfortable with organizing institutional housing, these industries have adopted various policies for this purpose. The aim of this paper is to study the pathology of organizational housing location. To achieve this, the present study has analysed the planning of construction of residential houses for about 850 employees of Bandar Abbas Gas Condensate Refinery in the first phase and 1200 people in the second phase. Accordingly, residence satisfaction and quality of life environment were examined firstly, and then locating organizational houses with the same situation inside the city and its outside limits were investigated. Gas Condensate Refinery employees and their needs were identified and prioritized based on the priorities of the refinery management and the rate of importance coefficient using the Delphi method. Comparative studies of housing in both indoor and outdoor options have been performed qualitatively at first and then organizational accommodation options with AHP ranking model. Comparative economic studies are also presented in a separate section due to their slightly more accurate predictability. Finally, after the studies, the suggestions and classification of housing types in accordance with the housing and organizational audience and the proposed strategies for optimal accommodation of employees have been presented. The key finding of this study is that the establishment of organizational housing units near an industry will not necessarily be economically, socially or environmental successful compared to supply in central cities.
Volume 13, Issue 2 (6-2009)
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In this paper, with the priority of measuring and promoting productivity in energy sector, we presented a model for evaluating the technical efficiency of oil refineries, as huge producers of energy and different fuels. The basis of evaluation in this research was Math modeling by using new and advanced operational research techniques such as data envelopment analysis, goal programming, analytical hierarchy process and designing combined models. The formulating process was made under two different scenarios and assumptions: consumption-production and cost-income. The final results ranked the order and sort of each refinery as a decision making unit. In addition to calculation of each unit’s score, we also made a comparison between the units, their weaknesses and the favorite score of each unit in real situation. This research focuses on the optimized utilization of refining processes with less refining cost and ability to make more valuable products considering the present availabilities and capacities
Ali Emami Meibodi, Farzaneh Jaydary,
Volume 14, Issue 4 (1-2015)
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Due to increasing concerns on environmental problems in current era, this study assesses the eco-efficiency of oil refineries. The oil refineries play essential role in the national economy in one hand, and cause environmental pollution due to high fossil fuel consumption and Co2 emissions in the other hand. Eco-efficiency is calculated using Windeap software, DEA output-oriented method, and inclusion of undesirable outputs. The results suggest that Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company is the most efficient refinery over the 2003-2009, and growth rates of refineries eco-efficiency are positive. The results of Tobit regression show that fuel oil and gasoil have negative effects on the eco-efficiency, however natural gas, refinery gases, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have positive effects on the eco-efficiency. On the other hand, if a refinery refines crude oil slightly more than nominal capacity rate, refinery eco-efficiency will be further decreased.
Volume 15, Issue 2 (7-2015)
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Oil and gas processing activities is causes excess water consumption, which leads to excessive production of wastewater. This produced waste water contains mineral and biological compounds which can contaminate water and ground water. Vast amount of this industries’ produced wastewater in Oil-rich countries which mostly are arid countries, lead them to find more effective methods for water reuse as a new water resources. One of the most important water pollutant are heavy metals, so investigator are believe that heavy metals toxicity into environment is more than which disperse from radioactive toxicity to ground water and seas. Various physical, chemical and biological methods of waste water treatment are applied in refining and petrochemical industries. considerable amount af mercury with different operational units’ wastewater is discharge to environment from refinery units. Since mercury is not biodegradable and tend to accumulate in living organisms, we must be able to control it by using effective methods. Application of membrane filtration is new method for water and wastewater treatment industry. In this research, by application of case study on one of the nation’s gas refineries, reverse osmosis membrane system performance under different operating conditions, was studied. For this purpose effects of variable parameters, namely operating pressure (5, 7, 9 and 11 bar), pH (3, 6, 9, 11) and mercury concentration (1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 mg/l) on removal performance were studied. Considering removal performance of mercury, COD, TDS, EC, Turbidity and also membrane flow rate, optimum operating condition was obtained. Base on the results, reverse osmosis membrane performance is efficient in optimum parameters’ value, namely 7 bar pressure and pH=9 from permeate water quality and economical aspects. by increasing system pressure a significant decline in mercury and COD removal efficiency was observed. removal efficiency of mercury, COD, and TDS in 7 bar pressure condition was 91.35%, 99.55%, and 94.89% respectively and also permeat flowrate was acceptable, so 7 bar was found as optimum pressure. On the next stage af investigation, although by increasing wastewater sampel’s pH, a considerable increase in mercury and COD removal efficiency was observed, it cause a dramatic rise in TDS and turbidity in feed wastewater and also in permeate stream. More over high value of pH, namely pH=11 can make system prone to fouling. So pH=9 was choosen as a optimum pH. Finally reverse osmosis membrane performance in encountering with possible shocks and high concentration of influent mercury was investigated. Although results shows a significant decrease in membrane removal efficiency in encountering with high influent mercury concentration, reverse osmosis membrane system efficiency in mercury removal is acceptable in encountering conventional mercury concentration of refineries. reverse osmosis membrane performance is efficient in optimum parameters’ value namely 7 bar pressure and pH=9, so removal efficiency of mercury,COD, and TDS was 97.5%, 99.755 and 93.29% respectively.
Volume 16, Issue 10 (1-2017)
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In the present paper, a gas turbine (GT) unit with nominal capacity of 26.8 MWe, which is used for continuous production of electricity in Ilam Gas Refinery Company, has been investigated for combined production of cooling, heating, power and process (CCHPP). Critical parameters are measured and the potentials of transforming the GT unit to CCHPP are investigated from technical, economic, and environmental point of views. A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) converts the exhaust energy to steam that can be used for three purposes of cooling, heating and process. The cycle is first evaluated thermodynamically, and to be certain about the HRSG, its operation is studied by using the pinch technology. Economical evaluation is carried out by calculating initial investment, payback period, net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return. In addition the impact of using CCHPP on reduction of environment pollutant gases such as CO, CO2, and NOx is studied. The results reveal that, the fuel energy saving ratio of 36% is achieved for the minimum pinch point temperature of 19 ̊ C in the HRSG unit. The payback period is only 5.2 year, and the NPV during the project lifetime is 1.87 M$. In addition the CO2, CO, and NOx reduction is about 32000, 22 and 27 tons/year respectively.
