Patent ID: 11946694
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. A method of cleaning a condensate thermosyphon reboiler of a condensate stabilizer system, the condensate stabilizer system comprising a plurality of condensate thermosyphon reboilers, the method comprising:
modifying a flow rate of a hot oil stream introduced into a tube-side of a first condensate thermosyphon reboiler having a pre-cleaning overhead temperature from a first hot oil flow rate to a second hot oil flow rate such that the pre-cleaning overhead temperature is modified to a first overhead temperature, the first overhead temperature having a value in a range from a first temperature to a second temperature;
modifying a flow rate of a condensate hydrocarbon stream introduced into a shell-side of the first condensate thermosyphon reboiler from a first condensate flow rate to a second condensate flow rate;
maintaining an operation of the condensate stabilizer system until the value of an overhead temperature of the first condensate thermosyphon reboiler is detected to have been modified from the first overhead temperature to a second overhead temperature;
modifying the flow rate of the condensate hydrocarbon stream introduced into the shell-side of the first condensate thermosyphon reboiler from the second condensate flow rate to the first condensate flow rate;
modifying the flow rate of the hot oil stream introduced into the tube-side of the first condensate thermosyphon reboiler from the second hot oil flow rate to the first hot oil flow rate such that the value of the overhead temperature of the first condensate thermosyphon reboiler is modified from the second overhead temperature to a post-cleaning overhead temperature where the post-cleaning overhead temperature is less than the pre-cleaning overhead temperature;
where the condensate stabilizer system further comprises:
a condensate stabilizer column configured to produce a mixed hydrocarbon/water vapor and a stabilized condensate from an unstablized hydrocarbon condensate, where the stabilizer column is fluidly coupled separately to the shell-side of each of the plurality of condensate thermosyphon reboilers, and where the tube-side of each of the plurality of condensate thermosyphon reboilers includes a hot oil stream inlet and a hot oil stream outlet with the hot oil stream being fluid coupled separately to the hot oil stream inlet on each of the plurality of condensate thermosyphon reboilers.