SYLOBEAD^® Adsorbents
for the Natural Gas Industry

The natural gas industry has strict specifications and limits on impurities in hydrocarbon gas and condensates supplied to processing plants and downstream customers:

• Water content has to be reduced to levels that prevent corrosion, hydrate formation and freezing in cryogenic equipment
• When sulfur compounds and carbon dioxide levels are too high, they need to be removed to meet product specifications or avoid formation of solid CO₂.

Grace Davison silica gels and molecular sieves are ideally suited for drying and purification for today´s growing energy source.

SYLOBEAD^® adsorbents are used extensively to fulfill the above requirements. Examples are:

• Natural gas drying prior to cryogenic processing or turbo expansion with SYLOBEAD^® molecular sieves
• Natural gas sweetening for removal of H₂S and mercaptans to meet pipeline specifications with molecular sieves
• Hydrocarbon dew point control and recovery. Grace Davison supplies hydrocarbon grade silica gel for NGL extraction where hydrocarbon dew point specifications need to be met
• Sour natural gas drying with a modified synthetic SYLOBEAD^® molecular sieve to meet transmission specifications to the sulfur removal unit

Special molecular sieves are available to remove water and sulfur components while avoiding the formation of CO₂.