专利汇可以提供Method and plant for the purification of produced water专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A method and a system for removing dispersed and dissolved hydrocarbons from produced water in connection with the extraction of oil and gas from geological formations beneath the sea bed or the ground. The produced water first undergoes mechanical or electromechanical treatment in a sub-process “A” to remove the dispersed hydrocarbons from the water and is subsequently treated in a sub-process “B” by stripping with a circulating inert gas in one or more stages (1, 2) to remove the dissolved hydrocarbons. The inert gas consists expediently of N2 containing 02 and the subsequent removal of the hydrocarbons is carried out in a catalytic converter (5) by catalytic combustion of the stripped hydrocarbons.,下面是Method and plant for the purification of produced water专利的具体信息内容。
The present invention concerns a method and a system for removing dissolved hydrocarbons (HC) from produced water in connection with the extraction of oil and gas.
During the production of oil and gas from geological formations beneath the sea bed and the ground, considerable quantities of water are also produced. In professional circles this is called “produced water”. Apart from dispersed oil, this water also contains various types of dissolved hydrocarbon (HC) in addition to dissolved metals and other chemical substances. Some types of the dissolved HC can be stripped out of the water while others can only be removed by adsorption in special types of filter material. Produced water is generally dumped, i.e., in connection with offshore production of oil and gas, discharged into the sea.
Regarding the content of dispersed oil in dumped water, the authorities in the various countries have set discharge requirements that must be met by the oil companies that extract oil and gas. In the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea, this requirement is currently 40 ppm oil for produced water. However, there are not currently any specific discharge requirements for dissolved hydrocarbons (HC). Typical HC of this type are benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX).
The reason for this is that no general process has yet been developed that the authorities can recommend on the basis of a technical/financial assessment. The result is that large quantities of produced water are currently dumped with a relatively low content of dissolved HC in relation to the quantity of dispersed oil. However, the dissolved hydrocarbons have considerably higher toxicity in some cases.
Extensive development work has been done to develop processes that can be used to remove dissolved HC. One process, the Cetour process, is based on using an HC condensate that is injected in produced water in a hydrocyclone and is distributed effectively in the water. The condensate is intended primarily to absorb dispersed oil, which is subsequently removed from the water in a separator. However, the possibility of removing dissolved HC was obviously also an aim.
One negative effect of this process, however, is that, if the condensate contains dissolved HC, for example BTX, these HC will be dissolved in the water. In order for the Cetour process to work optimally, a very pure condensate is therefore required, which may often be hard to obtain in some oil fields. The assumed conclusion is that dissolved HC, in general, cannot be removed by this process, and the Cetour process alone cannot, therefore, as far as can be ascertained, be used for total purification of produced water.
The present invention represents a process that, combined with other prior art processes for removal of dispersed oil, will also remove dispersed HC, for example BTX. Water that is virtually free of dispersed oil is passed through a system in which dissolved hydrocarbons are stripped out of the water using an inert gas with small quantities of oxygen added. After having been heated to a relatively high temperature, the gas is subsequently passed through a catalytic converter, preferably a precious metal catalytic converter, in which the stripped HC burn catalytically with oxygen from the stripping gas. The combustion products are water vapour and CO2.
In order to supply the necessary oxygen to the stripping system, there is a constant bleed of gas (mainly N2) out of the system downstream of the catalytic converter and a corresponding inflow of make-up air into the system. The majority of the CO2 from the catalytic combustion is absorbed by the water and passed out of the system in that way.
The present invention is characterised by a method as defined in the attached independent claim 1 and a system as defined in the attached independent claim 6. Dependent claims 2-5 and 7-14 define advantageous embodiments of the present invention. The theoretical degree of strippability for the various components can be indicated by their so-called Henry's constant, “H”, which indicates the ratio at equilibrium between the concentration of the hydrocarbon component in the atmosphere (the stripping gas) and the concentration of the component in the aqueous phase.
The literature gives the following figures for H for the most relevant substances to be stripped out, benzene, toluene and xylene (the BTX group), mg/l gas per mg/l water at 25° C.:
In tests in a small test system, very good conformity was found between the results achieved and the results expected, based on the relevant Henry's constants. As the individual types of HC in the BTX group have virtually equal H values, it was decided just to use benzene during tests in a large system (see later tests).
Theoretically, air can be used as the stripping gas, but for safety reasons it is desirable for the stripping gas to have a low oxygen content, for example 1-2%. The preferred stripping gas is N2, which is easy to “produce” directly in the system. Therefore, N2 with 1-2% O2 was used in the further tests with the present invention.
The present invention will be described in further detail in the following using examples and with reference to the attached drawings, where:
The method and the system in accordance with the present invention are based on the produced water undergoing a sub-process “A” before the stripping process. In this sub-process, dispersed oil is removed from the water fully or partially in a prior art manner, for example using a conventional flocculation-flotation method, which will not be described here. The water is subsequently treated in a stripping system with catalytic combustion of the stripped HC, as defined in the present claims.
In the example shown in the figures, the second process part “B” constitutes a 2-stage process in which the mass transfer units (stripping units) consist of vertical static mixers 1. The present invention as it is defined in the claims is not, however, limited to this type of mixer. It may, for example, consist of vertical pipe loop or dynamic mixers. With two stages as shown here, 90-95% of the dissolved quantity of HC can be stripped out.
Produced water, which is purified in process part “A” so that dispersed oil is removed, arrives in the pipe 7 and is passed to the first stage, i.e. the first static mixer 1 in process part “B”. Gas is supplied in the mixer 1 and is mixed with the water, which is passed on to a liquid/gas separator 2. From the liquid/gas separator 2, the water is passed on to a second stage, i.e. another static mixer 1, and from there to another gas/liquid separator 2. The stripping gas can either, as shown in
The oxygen level is maintained by means of a controlled bleed of the stripping gas via an outlet pipe 9 from the system, downstream of the catalytic converter 5, while a corresponding amount of air (O2) is passed in via an inlet pipe 10 upstream of the catalytic converter 5.
Various types of precious metal catalytic converter can be used expediently for combustion. In the tests carried out with the present invention, palladium was used, applied to a core material of SiO2 in granulate form.
The combustion temperature for various types of hydrocarbon is in the range of 250-400° C. However, it is expedient for the catalytic converter to be designed for combustion temperatures up to 750° C.
In the tests carried out mentioned below, the stripping gas was preheated with the hydrocarbons to the relevant reaction temperature in an electric preheater 6. In a technical system, it is necessary for such a preheater to be used during system startup. As the reaction between the hydrocarbons and oxygen is highly exothermic, the temperature in the catalytic converter will be maintained during normal operation by means of the heat exchanger 4 for inflow/outflow gas in connection with the catalytic converter chamber 5.
Tests
Tests were carried out in two periods with two different systems equivalent to the system shown in
In addition to benzene, the water in the tests in the last period also contained dispersed hydrocarbons equivalent to approximately 1000 ppm.
The test analyses were based on the measured quantity of HC in treated and untreated water. However, CO2 measurements in the gas were also carried out. In the first system, the hydrocarbons were mixed into the water tank before the test. In the tests in the large system, a concentrate of dissolved benzene was metered into the water supply.
All the results from water samples showed that the reduction in dissolved hydrocarbons in treated water was well over 80%. As stated above, this was achieved in a one-stage system. In a two-stage system, the reduction would theoretically be over 96% and in practice at least over 90%.
The tests also showed that the dispersed hydrocarbons had no effect on the stripping process or its effectiveness.
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