NGL/LPG New Plant Design Checklist

For a new LPG or NGL plant we will need as much of the following information as possible to provide a plant design for a particular application:

• Feed composition, flow rate, temperature, pressure.
• Residue delivery pressure, temperature, specification.
• NGL/LPG delivery pressure, temperature, specification.
• Recovery target level desired, if determined yet.
• Compression target horsepower and type compression preferred.
• Impurities in feed such as mercury, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide.
• Preference for shell and tube or brazed aluminum heat exchangers.
• Plant location, ambient temperature and barometric pressure.
• Block mounted or modularized construction preference.
• Net value of product by component for use in economics.
• Project schedule constraints.

As with all projects, more complete information will result in a better design.