Turbo-expander intelligent performance monitoring system
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsMohammad Almusaiteer, Abdulrahman Takrouni, Fahad Alghamdi
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Abstract
A method to perform operations of a natural gas liquid (NGL) plant equipment iws disclosed. The method includes obtaining real time process condition parameters of the NGL plant equipment, calculating, using an equation of state (EOS) and based on the real time process condition parameters, a compressibility factor of inlet and outlet streams of the NGL plant equipment, calculating, based on the calculated compressibility factor, a performance measure of the NGL plant equipment, and facilitating, based on the calculated performance measure, the operations of the NGL plant equipment.
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A method to perform operations of a natural gas liquid (NGL) plant equipment, comprising:
- obtaining real time process condition parameters of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, using an equation of state (EOS) and based on the real time process condition parameters, a compressibility factor of inlet and outlet streams of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, based on the calculated compressibility factor, a performance measure of the NGL plant equipment;
- and
- facilitating, based on the calculated performance measure, the operations of the NGL plant equipment.
An intelligent performance monitoring (IPM) system to perform operations of a natural gas liquid (NGL) plant equipment, comprising:
- a computer processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions, when executed by the computer processor comprising functionality for:
- obtaining real time process condition parameters of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, using an equation of state (EOS) and based on the real time process condition parameters, a compressibility factor of inlet and outlet streams of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, based on calculated compressibility factor, a performance measure of the NGL plant equipment;
- and
- facilitating, based on the calculated performance measure, the operations of the NGL plant equipment.
A system comprising:
- a natural gas liquid (NGL) plant equipment of an NGL plant;
- a plurality of sensors disposed at an inlet and an outlet of the NGL plant equipment to measure real time process condition parameters of the NGL plant equipment;
- and
- an intelligent performance monitoring (IPM) system comprising functionality for:
- obtaining the real time process condition parameters of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, using an equation of state (EOS) and based on the real time process condition parameters, a compressibility factor of inlet and outlet streams of the NGL plant equipment;
- calculating, based on calculated compressibility factor, a performance measure of the NGL plant equipment;
- and
- facilitating, based on the calculated performance measure, the operations of the NGL plant equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.