Abstract:
Objective The nitrogen production process by cryogenic air separation to obtain nitrogen for nitrogen injection and oil displacement is used in a large oil field. In order to improve the problems of high specific power consumption and low nitrogen yield, central composite rotation design(CCRD) response surface analysis method is used to optimize the production operation parameters.
Methods The nitrogen production process by cryogenic air separation based on HYSYS software is established and a single factor analysis on the key operating parameters in the process is made. Therefore, the optimized value range of each parameter is established, and the CCRD response surface analysis method is used to optimize the parameters in the range.
Results With the goal of minimizing the specific power consumption of the process, by using the best combination of process operation parameters, the nitrogen output of the optimized process increased by 9.68% from 16 905 m3/h to 18 541 m3/h; The oxygen molar content in nitrogen decreased by 7.7% from 0.000 26% to 0.000 24%; The nitrogen yield increased by 9.63% from 70.92% to 77.75%; The specific power consumption decreased by 7.69% from 0.374 5 kW·h/m3 to 0.345 7 kW·h/m3.
Conclusion The optimization of production operation parameters by CCRD response surface method has a significant effect on the improvement of existing problems.