Definition of Separation Problem

A separation scheme is operated at 20 bar and 313.15 K with a gas flowrate of 25 m3/s.
Table 1 lists the components of the gas stream after CO2 injection into the well, together with the
corresponding volume fraction of each component.

Table 1. Composition of natural gas

Volume
Component
fraction

CO2 0.9025
N2 0.0016
C1 0.0476
C2 0.0175
C3 0.0152
i-C4 0.0022
n-C4 0.0058
i-C5 0.0021
n-C5 0.0022
C6 0.0016
+
C7 0.0012
H2S 0.0005
Total 1.0000

With these conditions, the critical temperature of the natural gas feed is 188.87 K and the
critical pressure, 67.08 bar (Huang & Guo, 1995). From here, the compressibility factor Z is
computed to be 1.0182 using correlations by Beggs and Brill (Fayazi, Arabloo, & Mohammadi,
2013). Because this value of Z only has a 1.80% difference from 1.00, the natural gas stream is
assumed an ideal gas mixture hereafter.

Using the ideal gas equation, the molar flowrate of the natural gas feed is 19203.6116
mol/s. The molar fraction is then taken to be equal to the volume fraction of each component
through Amagats law (Atkins & de Paula, 2006). Table 2 lists the molar flowrate of each
component.