Total Purge gas flow Nm3/hr 8000

Total Feed gas to HRU Nm3/hr 7606.4

Total H2 in purge gas kgmoles/hr 216.65

Total H2 rich gas flow % 56.39

Total H2 rich gas recovered kgmoles/hr 191.37
Total Tail gas kgmoles/hr 147.99
Total H2 recovery % 83

Total NG equivalent to purge NM3/hr 2379

Total NG equivalent to tail gas NM3/hr 1106
3
Increase in NG Fuel gas for Primary reformer heat duty NM /hr 1272
Ammonia production equivalent to H2 MT/hr 2.04
Air required equivalent to H2 NM3/hr 1514.43
Current Air compressor power kW 4801.10
Current Air Flow NM3/hr 28000.00
Increase in Air compressor power kW 259.68
Total power required to pump DM water kW 21.06
Heat duty to heat purge gas Gcal/hr 0.04

Ammonia plant specific energy consumption Gcal/MT 9.376

Average ammonia production MTD 668
Ammonia plant specific energy consumption with HRU 9.133
Energy Saving Gcal/MT 0.24
 Dry gas Analysis
Purge gas Purge gas H2 rich gas Tail Gas
CH4 11.51 12.11 1.50 25.82 184.6319
H2 60.7 63.84 93.80 25.1 122.3712
Ar 2.37 2.49 1.00 4.42 94.8
N2 20.5 21.56 3.70 44.66 574.328
NH3 4.92 0.00 0.00 0.00 83.79252
M.W. 10.58 10.25 3.55 18.91 1059.924
Total 100 100 100.00 100

Volumetric Flow rate

CH4 921 921 64 856
H2 4856 4856 4023 833
Ar 190 190 43 147
N2 1640 1640 159 1481
NH3 394 0 0 0
Total 8000 7606 4289 3317

Mass Flow rate

CH4 17.42 18.91 6.74 21.88
H2 11.55 12.54 53.00 2.67
Ar 8.94 9.71 11.21 9.34
N2 54.19 58.84 29.05 66.10
NH3 7.91 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
GCV (kcal/kg) 6653.56 6763.70 18882.06 3809.62
NCV (kcal/kg)) 5738.78 5849.84 15975.78 3381.46
GCV(kcal/Nm3) 3140.7 3092.4 2992.3 3213.4
NCV (kcal/Nm3) 2708.9 2674.6 2531.7 2852.2
194.1859 24.0615 414.1786
128.7034 189.1008 50.6016
99.70551 40 176.8
604.0471 103.6592 1251.195
0 0 0
1026.642 356.8215 1892.775
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Inlet pressure of membrane 110

Outlet pressure of membrane 26
Selectivity 100
Inlet concentration of gas 100 70 99.0 Y2 + -396 Y + 296
Assuming volume of gas 85.40825 65 99.0 Y2 + -375 Y + 275
74.4719 60 99.0 Y2 + -355 Y + 254
65.96435 55 99.0 Y2 + -334 Y + 233
59.1494 50 99.0 Y2 + -313 Y + 212
53.55672 45 99.0 Y2 + -292 Y + 190
48.86872 40 99.0 Y2 + -271 Y + 169
44.85675 35 99.0 Y2 + -250 Y + 148
41.33725 30 99.0 Y2 + -229 Y + 127
38.12622 25 99.0 Y2 + -208 Y + 106
34.98995 20 99.0 Y2 + -187 Y + 85
31.62667 15 99.0 Y2 + -166 Y + 63
27.62592 10 99.0 Y2 + -145 Y + 42
5 99.0 Y2 + -124 Y + 21
 Solution 2
Y Yaverage permeate H2 in permTotal H2 Total permeate
= 0 0.99 0.99 14.59 14.48 14.48 14.59
= 0 0.99 0.99 10.94 10.83 25.32 25.53
= 0 0.99 0.99 8.51 8.40 33.72 34.04
= 0 0.99 0.98 6.81 6.71 40.43 40.85
= 0 0.98 0.98 5.59 5.47 45.90 46.44
= 0 0.98 0.97 4.69 4.55 50.45 51.13
= 0 0.97 0.96 4.01 3.85 54.30 55.14
= 0 0.95 0.94 3.52 3.30 57.60 58.66
= 0 0.92 0.89 3.21 2.87 60.47 61.87
= 0 0.86 0.81 3.14 2.53 63.00 65.01
= 0 0.75 0.67 3.36 2.25 65.26 68.37
= 0 0.59 0.50 4.00 1.98 67.24 72.37
= 0 0.40 0.30 5.47 1.65 68.89 77.85
= 0 0.20 0.10 0.00 0.00 77.85
% recovery
20.69
36.17
48.17
57.75
65.57
72.08
77.57
82.28
86.38
90.00
93.22
96.05
98.42
0.00
 DM water pump
Total DM water flow MT/hr 4.50
suction pressure 7.00
discharge pressure 130.00
Difference kg/cm2 123.00

M.W. 18.02
density kg/m3 954.00
O
Pumping temperature C 42.00
Volume of the flue gas m3/hr 4.72
Head m 1289.31
Power required kW 15.79
Pump Efficiency 75
Exact Power required kW 21.06

Heat duty for heating purge gas

Total purge gas flow Nm3/hr 7606.4 CH4
Inlet temperature of purge gas O
C 42 H2
O
Outlet temperature of purge gas C 60 Ar
Heat capacity of purge gas Kcal/kgmoleOC 7.03358 N2
Heat duty required Gcal/hr 0.042964 NH3
4.13 4.45 4.290583 51.94006
6.65 6.67 6.66131 425.2645
4.80 4.80 4.8 11.96466
11.07 8.80 9.934176 214.1887
6.30 6.46 6.377023 0
7.03358