Hydrogen and Energy Evaluation

Details

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 Focus on Areas of Excellence

 Leverage Praxair areas of excellence

• Hydrogen supply
• Hydrogen system management
• Energy Optimization
• Material loss services
• Oxygen combustion applications
• Disciplined approach to the creation of value
 Assist refinery customers with their efforts to improve business
performance
• Cost reduction
• Profit improvement
• Evaluate the “big picture”

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 Optimize the Hydrogen System

 Measures of optimization
• Increase time between major shutdowns
• Reduce hydrogen downgraded to fuel
• Reduce work requirements (compressors)
• Improve hydrotreating unit performance
 Praxair proprietary hydrogen model
• Configure the model to match the refinery conditions
• Compare the model results with actual results
 Identify opportunities for improvements
• Typical improvement schemes include:
– Installation of PSA’s on the front end and back end hydrogen steams
– Installation of individual unit membranes
• Use the model to evaluate each opportunity

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Detailed Hydrogen Model

Praxair flash model

Feed API routines and API Technical Database committee support

Compr
Make-up H2
Rec Recycle bleed
Compr

Reactor
HPFD

Exch
Solution Loss
Absorbed Gas Bleed

Model Outputs:
LPFD

• Solution losses
• Hydrogen recycle purity

Model Inputs: Products • Hydrogen consumption

• Stream hydrogen purities • Reactor gas make

• Unit pressures • Absorbed gas bleed purity

• Utility cost • Work requirements

• Feed rates • Run lengths

• Feed distillations and gravities • Overall cost of hydrogen

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Hydrogen System Improvement Options
Make-up Hydrogen
P-29

PSA

Exchg Fuel
Recycle Hydrogen

P-7 Compr
Membrane
Reactor

To Fuel P-24

P-27

HPFD Bleed
PSAPSA
Bleed

HPFD Tailgas

Improvement Options LPFD Vent

•PSA front end
•PSA back end
•Membrane
•LP vent to PSA LPFD

•Partial pres Vs run lengths

To Stripping

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Hydrogen Evaluation

 Praxair model has given excellent comparisons to

plant results
 Model optimizes all hydro processing units
 All factors reduced to a $/day basis
• Purchased hydrogen
• Power
• Contribution to fuel
• Run length impact due to changes in hydrogen partial
pressure

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Key Drivers/Issues
Study Results Praxair Can Improve
 Return on Capital Employed
 Optimizes refinery feeds to • Via study results
the SMR • Via appropriate commercial terms
 Resource Utilization
• Praxair will undertake the study for approximately
 Determines best way to utilize $25,000 with minimal Sunoco involvement
• If a project goes forward, Sunoco will allow Praxair to
reformer hydrogen meet the best deal and the cost of the study will be
waived

 Optimizes hydrogen system

configuration

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