I have a problem in deciding the number of beds used in dehydration for pre-treatment of LNG
One of the vendors has suggested a 5 bed for LNG pretreatment a 5 bed system is that you can reduce the regeneration rate by 66% by using a semi closed loop system . The downside is the additional vessel and associated costs. The other downside is that if water gets into the treater section it is harder to strip off the water.
A 3 bed system is capex friendly but opex wise costly
Peak CO2 demand is 0.8 mole%
Please suggest what should i go with