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Gas compressor air-cooled aftercooler (fin-fan)

Gas processingCompressorAir coolerFin-fanHeat rejection
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A natural-gas booster compressor followed by an air-cooled (fin-fan) aftercooler — the standard way to reject compression heat where no cooling water is available. The compressor raises the gas from 8 to 24 atm (hot discharge ~150 °C); the air cooler then rejects that heat to ambient air, cooling the gas back to 49 °C. Unlike a plain cooler, the air_cooler op closes the air side: from the process duty and the 35 °C design ambient it solves the air mass flow (a 15 °C air rise) and reports the fan power from the given fan static pressure. Honest scope: screening air-side model (fixed cp_air, ideal-gas air density, no fin/row geometry rating); an air cooler cannot cool below ambient, so the 49 °C target sits safely above the 35 °C air inlet.

The flowsheet

The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

GAS
COMP
AC
Cooled GAS

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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