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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Mohamed Ahmed Saad Mahmoud, Dammam, SA;
Ahmed Hamad Salman, Riyadh, SA;
Hassan Yahiya Al-Malki, Dammam, SA;
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A natural gas (NG) processing plant and method of operating the NG processing plant including: receiving feed NG, removing acid gas from the feed NG gas via a gas sweetening unit having an amine absorber column that absorbs the acid gas, collecting an amine sample in the gas sweetening unit, removing water from the feed NG via a NG dehydration system having a column vessel that contacts the feed NG with liquid desiccant including glycol to remove the water, collecting a glycol sample in the NG dehydration system, adding reagent water and ferrozine to each of the amine sample and the glycol sample, and measuring total dissolved iron via ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry in each of the amine sample and the glycol sample.