Natural Gas Odorant Production from Sour Condensate-Increasing Added Value Decreasing Environmental Problems

摘要

Treated Natural Gas (NG) is a colorless gas without any smell. Odorant is added to natural gas to provide a distinctive odor, thus allowing any potentially hazardous leakage to be detected or realized by smelling. Due to very strong smell, Light mercaptans are quite common for this purpose. Existing vast sources of sour gas condensate in south pars field has led RIPI to extraction natural mercaptans for this aim. The offered method not only reduced sulfur content of gas condensate but also has not any problems of DSO production and caustic treatment units which are faced in demercaptanization processes.