MethanolInjection.

xls
This spreadsheet calculates the minimum amount of required inhibotor usage.
Input Data:
Gas flow rate: 10 MMscfd
Gas specific gravity (
g
): 0.7 air = 1
Minimum pressure (p
m
): 900 psia
Inlet gas temperature (t
i
): 90

o
F
Hydrate temperature p
m
: 64

o
F
Operating temperature (t
o
): 40

o
F
Water content at t
i
and p
m
: 48 lb/MMscf
Water content at t
o
and p
m
: 9.6 lb/MMscf
Inhibitor solution density: 6.64 ppg
Inhibitor concentration (W
in
): 100 Wt %
Intermediate Calculations:
Water to be removed from gas (w
G
): 38.4 lb/MMscf
Molecular weight of inhibitor (MW)
inh
: 32
Hammerschmidt constant for inhibitor (K
H
): 2335
Depression of hydrate formation temperature (At
h
): 24

o
F
Inhibitor requirement based on Hammerschmidt's method:
= 24.75 Wt %
Liquid phase:
= 12.63 lb/MMscf
Gas phase:
= 1.05
Inhibitor requirement: 25.99 lb/MMscf
System total:
Inhibitor requirement: 38.62 lb/MMscf
Instructions:
1) Update input data in blue;
2) View result.
100
) (
) (

+ A
A
=
H h inh
h inh
h
K t MW
t MW
W
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=
in out
G
W W
W
I
100 100
100
) , (
in Water NeOH % WT
MeOH/MMscf lb
m
t P f =
Daily injection rate: 386.18 lb/day
58.16 gal/day
Hourly injection rate: 2.42 gal/hour
Check:
= 12.63
in h inh
H
G
W t MW
K
W
I
100
) (
1
100

A
+
=