Physical chemistry: from theory to application, from laboratory to industry

In the Iranian chemistry community, it has been judged that physical chemistry is a discipline studying chemical phenomena only from theoretical and physical points of view without any application in the society and industry. In this presentation, it will be demonstrated that physical chemistry, as one of the most active research areas of science, plays an important role to promote such industrial areas as oil and gas industries as well as many other practical disciplines. This way a demonstration will be presented to depict the road map from thermodynamics laboratory to simulation and design an industrial natural gas refinery plant. The presentation includes the following topics:- An overview of natural gas sweetening industry and its national and economic importance.- Measurement and modeling phase equilibria in systems comprised of acid gas + chemically reactive aqueous electrolyte solutions at low and high pressure regions.- Measurement and modeling thermo-physical properties of complex aqueous solutions at low and high pressure regions.-Measurement and modeling kinetics of absorption of acid gases in complex aqueous solutions.- The importance and applications of the experimental data generated in the laboratory to process design and simulation.- Development of a process simulation package to simulate and design a natural gas sweetening plant based on a specific newly formulated solution.- Design and construction of a gas sweetening pilot plant to analyze long term process performance of newly formulated as well as conventional industrial solutions.

کلیدواژه ها:

applied thermodynamics ، phase equilibria ، thermo-physical properties ، natural gas sweetening ، process simulation