RATIONALE FOR THE CHOICE OF HEAT EXCHANGERS IN THE SYNTHESIS GAS PREPARATION COMPLEX FOR LOW-TONNAGE METHANOL PRODUCTION
The creation of mobile, transportable methanol production complexes for use in remote oil and gas fields, as well as the improvement of the hardware design of synthesis gas preparation complexes based on the non-catalytic process of partial oxidation of hydrocarbon fuel requires the study of mixing processes, heat exchange, separation and other technological processes from the standpoint of energy and resource conservation, ensuring environmental safety and reliability.The results obtained in the work can be used in the development of CAD for the calculation of nodes of the synthesis gas preparation complex. The paper investigates two schemes of heat exchangers: «pipe in pipe» and «shell-and-tube», in which water is heated by using the potential energy of synthesis gas as a result of the exothermic reaction of non-catalytic partial oxidation of the prepared associated petroleum gas.The improvement of heat exchangers is an urgent and important task, the solution of which will ensure an increase in energy and resource conservation, will increase the environmental efficiency of mobile synthesis gas production complexes.