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The technical and economic comparison of ethylene production from natural gas and ethane

Published:2021-03-15 Issue:4 Volume:19 Page:415-425
ISSN:1542-6580
Container-title:International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
language:en
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Author:

Atiku Farooq Abubakar¹,Pirouzfar Vahid²^ORCID,Su Chia-Hung³,Wei Sung-Yen⁴

Affiliation:

1. Energy Research Institute, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds , LS2 9JT , Leeds , UK

2. Department of Chemical Engineering , Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University , Tehran , Iran

3. Department of Chemical Engineering , Ming Chi University of Technology , New Taipei City , Taiwan

4. SulfurScience Technology Co., Ltd. , Hsinchu , Taiwan

Abstract

Abstract Ethylene is one of the most primary and widely used petrochemical products in today’s world and is considered as a chemical building block in the petrochemical industry. In this research, ethylene production from ethane and natural gas is evaluated in terms of cost and optimum conditions. Also, a comprehensive economic and technical comparison is made to achieve the optimal conditions for ethylene production concerning feed diversity. Nowadays most ethylene production units run with ethane feed. If it is possible to implement gas-ethylene processes with an inexpensive natural gas feed, it will be a significant step for technical and economic optimization. Thus, some methods are introduced and compared, and finally an economic review about best condition for ethylene production from ethane and natural gas/investment with regard to cost and economic efficiency of the methods is provided. The investment cost for Gas to Ethylene (GTE) and Ethane to Ethylene (ETE) processes is 363–701 million dollars per year, respectively. Also, rate of return (ROR) of 24 and 19% is calculated for GTE and ETE processes, respectively.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Chemical Engineering

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijcre-2021-0001/pdf

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