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Deep ethane recovery with propane-refrigerated feed chilling

NGL recoveryCryogenicRefrigerationDeep ethane recovery
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Associated gas is chilled by an external propane refrigeration package before a demethanizer recovers ethane and heavier as NGL bottoms from a methane-rich residue gas overhead — the cryogenic-chilling role Ortloff's CCS/GSP processes play ahead of the turboexpander in a real deep-ethane-recovery plant. The mechanical refrigeration loop itself (compressor/condenser/valve) isn't separately modeled here; the chiller's duty is represented directly as the feed's cooled outlet temperature (the same honest-simplification pattern used for LNG cold-box examples elsewhere in this library).

The flowsheet

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

FEED
Chill
feed
dist
btms
Demeth
Residue GAS
NGL Product

The stream table

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

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