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Refinery Simulation: Pre-Flash & CDU Process

The document outlines the simulation of a pre-flash tower and atmospheric crude column for a 100,000 bbl/day refinery using a blend of two crude oils. It provides detailed specifications for feed streams, preflash tower, atmospheric crude tower, and side strippers, including temperature, pressure, flow rates, and product specifications. The objective is to recover various distillate products while adhering to specified ASTM standards.

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Refinery Simulation: Pre-Flash & CDU Process

The document outlines the simulation of a pre-flash tower and atmospheric crude column for a 100,000 bbl/day refinery using a blend of two crude oils. It provides detailed specifications for feed streams, preflash tower, atmospheric crude tower, and side strippers, including temperature, pressure, flow rates, and product specifications. The objective is to recover various distillate products while adhering to specified ASTM standards.

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Refinery Workshop

Objective:

To perform simulation of pre-flash tower and atmospheric crude column for 100,000
bbl/day refinery. The crude feed is a blend of two crude oils viz. Oil-1 and Oil-2 and are
mixed in the proportion of 20:80 volume basis. The raw crude feed is first fed to Pre-
flash Tower to recover the Light-ends & Naphtha as top product and the bottoms stream
goes to the atmospheric crude column (CDU). In CDU, the middle distillates products -
Heavy Naphtha, Kerosene, Diesel, Atmospheric Gas Oil (AGO) are separated and
Reduced crude as the Bottom stream.

Data

Oil-1
API 31.4

TBP analysis based on Liquid Volume


% distilled Temp (C) Component FRAC
STDVOL
6.8 54.4 C1 0.001
10 82.2 C2 0.0015
30 214.4 C3 0.009
50 343.3 IC4 0.004
62 426.7 NC4 0.016
70 483.9 IC5 0.012
76 537.8 NC5 0.017
90 679.4

Oil-2
API 34.8

TBP analysis based on Liquid Volume


% distilled Temp (C) Component FRAC
STDVOL
6.5 48.9 H2O 0.001
10 93.3 C1 0.002
20 148.9 C2 0.005
30 204.4 C3 0.005
40 243.3 IC4 0.01
50 287.8 NC4 0.01
60 343.3 IC5 0.005
70 398.9 NC5 0.025
80 454.4
90 593.3
95 704.4
98 801.7
100 910.0
MixOil
i.e. Blend of Oil-1 & Oil-2 based on Std. Liq Vol. basis

OIL-1 0.2
OIL-2 0.8

Property Method : BK10


Solubility Water : 2

Feed Stream Specifications

Temp (C) Pressure (kg/cm2) Flow


MIX-CRUDE 93.3 4.22 100,000 bbl/day
PF-STEAM 204.5 4.22 2268 kg/hr
CU-STM 204.5 4.22 5443 kg/hr
CU-STM1 204.5 4.22 1497 kg/hr
CU-STM2 204.5 4.22 453.6 kg/hr
CU-STM3 204.5 4.22 363 kg/hr

Preflash Tower Specifications

Number of Stages 10
Condensor Partial-Vapor-Liquid
Reboiler None-Bottom Feed
Valid Phases Vapor – Liquid – Free Water
Distillate rate 15,000 bbl/day

Stream Name Stage Convention


MIXCRUDE 10 FURNACE
PF-STEAM 10 ON-STAGE

Pressure
Stage 1 39.7 psi
Stage 2 41.1 psi
Bottom Stage 44.7 psi

Condenser Temperature 50 C

Furnace Temperature 232.2 C


Furnace pressure 3.45 bar

Adding a design-spec

1. Naphtha product spec :- ASTM D86 95vol% should be 190.5 C.


Atmospheric Crude Tower

Number of Stages 25
Condensor Total
Reboiler None-Bottom Feed

Distillate rate 13,000 bbl/day

Stream Name Stage Convention


CDU-FEED 22 FURNACE
CU-STEAM 25 ON-STAGE

Pressure
Stage 1 15.7 psi
Stage 2 20.7 psi
Bottom Stage 24.7 psi

Furnace Fractional Overflash 0.03 (Std Volume)


Furnace pressure 24.18 psi

Pumparound Specifications
(Partial Draw)

PA-1 PA-2
Draw Stage 8 14
Return Stage 6 13
Flow (bbl/day) 49,000 11,000
Heat Duty (MMBtu/hr) -40 -15

Side Stripper Specifications

S-1 S-2 S-3


No. of stages 4 3 2
Stripper Product Kerosene Diesel AGO
Liquid Draw 6 13 18
Overhead return 5 12 17
Stripping Steam CU-STM1 CU-STM2 CU-STM3
Bottom Product 11,700 bbl/day 16,500 bbl/day 8,500 bbl/day

Adding a design-spec

1. Heavy Naphtha Product spec. ASTM D86 95 vol% should be 190.5 C. Vary Distillate
Product rate
2. Diesel Product spec. ASTM D86 95 vol% should be 337.7 C. Vary Bottoms rate of
Stripper S-2.
PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM

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