TY - JFULL AU - Arash Esmaeili and Omid Ghabouli PY - 2011/4/ TI - Steady State Simulation and Experimental Study of an Ethane Recovery Unit in an Iranian Natural Gas Refinery T2 - International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering SP - 208 EP - 213 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/12506 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 51, 2011 N2 - The production and consumption of natural gas is on the rise throughout the world as a result of its wide availability, ease of transportation, use and clean-burning characteristics. The chief use of ethane is in the chemical industry in the production of Ethene (ethylene) by steam cracking. In this simulation, obtained ethane recovery percent based on Gas sub-cooled process (GSP) is 99.9 by mole that is included 32.1% by using de-methanizer column and 67.8% by de-ethanizer tower. The outstanding feature of this process is the novel split-vapor concept that employs to generate reflux for de-methanizer column. Remain amount of ethane in export gas cause rise in gross heating value up to 36.66 MJ/Nm3 in order to use in industrial and household consumptions. ER -