High ethane recovery from a ryan/holmes additive recovery column

摘要

A method for separating a high ethane-content product from a high methane-content feed stream including the steps of introducing a high methane-content feed stream into a first distillation column containing a plurality of vapor-liquid contact devices and generating a first bottoms stream, and introducing the first bottoms stream into a second distillation column containing a plurality of vapor-liquid contact devices and generating a second bottoms stream. Additional steps include recovering an additive stream from the second bottoms stream and injecting the additive stream into the first distillation column, and recovering a high ethane-content product from the second distillation column.