Abstract：

Under background of shale gas revolution and domestic coal-to-gas switch, both production and consumption of natural gas will continue to grow. Chemical process simulation technique is used extensively in industry and academia for process analysis, equipment design, optimization and control. This paper briefly introduces the process simulation technology and simulators commonly used to model natural gas processing. It is reviewed that natural gas treatment process including acid gas removal, dehydration, sulfur recovery and NGL recovery, new technologies such as membrane and ionic liquids, as well as the research on simulation and modeling of those processes. The paper focuses on the research advances in full process simulation. Several novel design of natural gas treatment integrated with other chemical processes such as methanol and ethylene production is discussed. In the end, further research in this area is presented.

Key words：natural gas; shale gas; process simulation; process integration

Received： 2018-12-11

Corresponding Authors： chundeng@cup.edu.cn

Cite this article：SHAO Qingnan, GU Xincheng, DENG Chun, QIU min, MA Limin, JI Zhongli. Research advances in the simulation and modeling of natural gas treatment process. Petroleum Science Bulletin, 2019, 02: 192-203.

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