LPG plant revamp to increase capacity, produce commercial-grade propane—Part 2

S. Ammar, El-Wastani Petroleum Co., Cairo, Egypt, and F. Khalifa, Suez University, Suez, Egypt Part 2 of this article continues an evaluation of the different modifications needed to retrofit the El-Wastani LPG plant in Egypt to enhance LPG recovery percentage and to produce an additional product—commercial propane—with high propane recovery percentage. The retrofit also seeks to increase the plant’s handling capacity from 160 MMscfd to 200 MMscfd. To accomplish these two goals, a change in the existing process configuration and in several operating conditions and equipment sizing have been studied. A debottlenecking study showed that the proposed modifications to the plant can increase bu