A base solution containing the acid gases it is designed to absorb.

A hydrocarbon vapor stream containing a sufficient quantity of liquifiable hydrocarbons deemed economically suitable as feed to a gas processing plant and from which liquid hydrocarbon products can be extracted.

The oil leaving the bottom of an absorber in lean oil processing plants.

Gas which meets the specifications of the contract.

The collection of a representative portion of a flowing stream for subsequent analysis to determine product quality.

A system which is located some distance from the plant for which performs a processing function.

Hydrocarbon compounds having essentially no unsaturated carbon valence bonds.

Liquid which is at its boiling point or is in equilibrium with a vapor phase in its containing vessel.

Vapor at its dew point.

A term used to relate a volume of vapor at specified conditions.

A vessel with or without internals used to separate entrained liquids or solids from gas.

A vessel utilizing mechanical and/or thermal means of separating a stream containing two or more phases.

An adsorption process which has adsorption cycles of relatively short duration.

(1) The reduction in volume and/or heating value of a gas stream due to removal of some of its constituents. (2) The reduction in volume of a liquid stream due to removal of or non-ideal mixing of some of its constituents. (3) The reduction in volume of sales products due to processing or usage of portions of the feed stream.

Cessation of flow caused by upset conditions or human intervention.

A tray with perforations in a fractionation column.

Cycle using various components, such as nitrogen, ethylene, methane, propane, butanes and/or i-pentane in place of the pure hydrocarbon refrigerants utilized in the discrete cooling steps of a cascade refrigerant cycle1.

A term rather loosely used to denote mixtures of oil produced at various places in the plant which must be rerun or further processed to be suitable for use.

Gas which originates from the liquid phase in the oil reservoir.

Gas containing an appreciable quantity of hydrogen sulfide and/or sulfur compounds.

The ratio of the mass of a given volume of a substance to that of an equal volume of another substance used as a reference. Unless otherwise stated, air is used as the standard for gases and water for liquids and the volumes measured at 60oF and atmospheric pressure (15.56oC and 101,325).

A name applied to fractionators, particularly those separating isomers; i.e., butane splitter refers to a deisobutanizer.

An absorbent for recovering vapors of a lighter absorbent that is used in the main absorption process of a gas processing plant.

The unit where the gas is processed with an absorbant (normally light oil) to remove light hydrocarbons from the gas stream.

Condensate that has been stabilized to a definite vapor pressure in a fractionation system.