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Hydrogen Distribution Network of Medor Refinery Plant by Using Two Different Optimization Techniques

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Chemical Engineering
Process Integration

Abstract

Hydrogen consumption of refineries is rising sharply with the increase of conversion units such as hydrocracking and hydrotreating processes, since these processes play an important role in modern and integrated refineries to upgrade the heavy crude oil to more valuable products. Therefore hydrogen distribution network becomes unavoidable inspite of its complexity. So the refinery hydrogen management techniques are developed in recent years to determine maximum hydrogen recovery networks which do not account for varying operating conditions of hydrogen consuming processes and assume constant operating conditions. This paper addresses the problem of actual hydrogen distribution at the Medor refinery plant at Alexandria-Egypt in which different optimization techniques were applied to minimize the consumption of hydrogen. Additionally, an efficient network design has been achieved that reduces the hydrogen utilities usage by 14.9%, hydrogen discharge by 33% and 3.242 MUS$/year saving in the operating costs.

DOI

10.21608/jpme.2015.41358

Keywords

H2 integration, H2 distribution network, Optimization techniques, H2 management

Authors

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Gad

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Department of chemical and Refinery Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

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First Name

Jin

Last Name

Kim

MiddleName

K.

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea

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First Name

Abeer

Last Name

Shoaib

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of chemical and Refinery Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

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abeer.shoaib@suezuniv.edu.eg

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Walaa

Last Name

Shehata

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of chemical and Refinery Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

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Volume

17

Article Issue

1

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6263

Issue Date

2015-12-01

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2015-05-18

Publish Date

2015-12-01

Page Start

66

Page End

72

Print ISSN

1110-6506

Online ISSN

2682-3292

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https://jpme.journals.ekb.eg/article_41358.html

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805

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Journal of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

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https://jpme.journals.ekb.eg/

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Hydrogen Distribution Network of Medor Refinery Plant by Using Two Different Optimization Techniques

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Created At

22 Jan 2023