Maximise the Potential of Existing Assets

Shell Turbo Technologies enables Natural Gas producers to enhance gas production with minimal expenditure by revolutionising gas-liquid contacting in amine treating (AGRU) and triethylene glycol (TEG) dehydration.

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Maximise the Potential of Existing Assets

Shell Turbo Technologies enables Natural Gas producers to enhance gas production with minimal expenditure by revolutionising gas-liquid contacting in amine treating (AGRU) and triethylene glycol (TEG) dehydration.

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Increase Capacity at a Lower Cost

For Natural Gas processing facilities looking to increase processing capacity without adding additional trains or replacing existing absorber columns, Shell Turbo Technologies provide a drop-in solution that has already demonstrated the ability to increase natural gas production by 20% in amine duty and >50% in TEG dehydration. 100-200% higher capacity can be achieved if other process limitations are also addressed.

Are you responsible for natural gas sweetening, teg dehydration, or CO two removal? Are you looking to increase process flow rate without adding trains, or to increase capacity at a lower cost? 

Shell Turbo Technologies  may be your ideal solution. They enable you to improve contacting by reducing bubble size far better than previous generation Shell Hi Fi trays. Decreasing gas bubble size exponentially increases the surface area for contaminant transfer, but smaller bubbles are more easily entrained. 

The flow rates of today's trays and structured packings are constrained if you continue to increase gas flow or decrease bubble size, liquid becomes entrained, causing operational problems. To increase capacity, you can increase column diameter, but at a cost. 

But what if we turned the problem around, instead of bubbles in a liquid? We asked whether we could atomize and introduce liquid droplets into a high velocity gas stream and then separate the phases. We drew on our extensive expertise in atomizing liquid feeds and cyclone separation. Our team realized that we could atomize and train and separate the liquid in multiple enclosed contacting boxes. 

The process has been demonstrated scaled up and is now being applied in commercial units. Shell Turbo Technologies  can potentially double the gas flow rate in existing columns and approximately halve new column capex in our first commercial operation. Shell Turbo Technologies  enabled a constrained unit to increase gas flow by over 20%. Let's connect to discuss how Shell Turbo Technologies  can benefit your business. To find out more, visit Shell.com/gasprocessing

Learn how Shell Turbo Technologies can help you significantly increase the capacity of your existing absorbers.

Shell Turbo Technologies are a drop-in solution that improves absorber column hydraulics and mass-transfer efficiency. This enables refiners to improve the efficiency and capacity of their treating plants without the need to add additional trains.

White paper: Shell Turbo Technologies
Changing the game in gas processing

This white paper offers a detailed look at Shell Turbo Technologies, a drop-in technology that enables natural gas producers to increase gas processing capacity, increase robustness to incoming feed contaminants, reduce circulation rate and energy consumption, and reduce treated gas contaminants.

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Fact Sheet: Shell Turbo Technologies
Changing the game in gas processing

This fact sheet offers a more condensed look at Shell Turbo Technologies, including case studies about two Shell customers who have already experienced increased gas production and efficiency.

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