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Meetings & Symposia 
Natural gas odorant production from sour condensate-increasing added value & decreasing environmental problems 
Naderi, F; Pakseresht, S; Minabi, A; Bazmi, M; Tajerian, M; Bonyad, H 
2014 
Government Institutes Inc. 
International Gas Research Conference Proceedings 
3 
2683-2689 
English 
Today, the most part of demanding mercaptans are produced in synthetic methods, under catalytic reactions. However, mercaptans can be extracted from natural hydrocarbon sources, which is a good opportunity for putting to use of a waste and hazard material. The Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) developed demercaptanization process of gas condensate and produced odorant in pilot scale. Undesirable affects of caustic regeneration are reduced in demercaptanization processes via thermal regeneration of caustic solution and removal light mercaptans. Natural light mercaptans are used as finished product as "Odorant". Pilot plant results made RIPI to continue the idea and plan industrial odorant production unit. The unit was designed and installed for separation aliphatic mercaptans from gas condensate in South Pars by the National Iranian Gas Co investment. The products are deodorized gas condensate and odorant for natural gas. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the International Gas Union Research Conference (IGRC 2014) (Copenhagen, Denmark 9/17-19/2014).