PROCESS SYSTEMS

NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter

OIL

Field or refinery: A higher level of desalting performance

Five Steps to Successful Desalting 1 Camerons Dual Polarity Electrostatic Dehydrator: he patented process applies a high T gradient, sustained DC field between pairs of electrodes, while maintaining an AC field between the electrodes and oil/water interface. Results: Dramatic improvements over AC dehydration. 2 Camerons Composite Plate Electrodes: Developed to obtain a degrading electrical field. Results: Coalescence of the smallest of water particles, while eliminating sustained arcing due to highly conductive emulsions. 3 Camerons Load Responsive Controller: eveloped to regulate the flow of D electrical current and to provide selfadjusting electrical power levels for optimization of electrostatic coalescence. esults: Optimum salt removal over a R wide range of feed stock materials. 4 Camerons Counter Flow Dilution Water Process: Developed to increase dilution water/ produced water and particulate contact. esults: Reduced dilution water rates R while providing maximum extraction efficiency. 5 Camerons Electrostatic Mixing Process:

When Japanese refiners embarked upon a long-awaited program of expansion and upgrading they turned to the NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter for state-of-the-art desalting to give them maximum performance and flexibility in meeting future needs. Over 60% of the desalters installed in Japanese refineries in the past ten years have been supplied by Cameron.

Camerons Process Systems combines more than half a century of crude oil dehydration and 30 years of field and refinery desalting experience to create a new leading edge crude oil desalting process. The new process, Camerons patented and proprietary NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter, was developed to replace the conventional mechanical mixing, multi-vessel, staged system. The NATCO ElectroDynamic Desalter accomplishes this task by providing multiple phases of electrostatic mixing, coalescing and settling in a single vessel allowing salt and dehydration efficiencies to approach 100%. Five proven Cameron process technologies were united and conventionally structured to provide the refining industry with the first real electrostatic desalting design innovation in over a decade. The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter will provide two-staged desalting efficiencies without the excessive capital investments or space requirements common to these systems.

EDD Composite Electrode Configuration

Load Responsive Controller Dilution Water Headers Composite Electrodes Oil Outlet

Oil/Water Interface

Water Outlet

Electrostatic Fields

High Voltage Gradient Dispersion

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ncorporated to provide multistage I contact. esults: Mixing efficiencies approaching R 100% while enabling the user to reduce emulsion chemical consumption.

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Increase operating efficiency while reducing operational expenses The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter, under a variety of conditions, can: Retrofit to upgrade your single-stage system to two-stage performance. Increase the levels of salt removal over any other single-vessel process. Double the capacity of two-stage systems. Reduce initial capital costs for new installations. Allow higher inlet water cuts during upset conditions while maintaining specified effluent requirements. Improve effluent water quality. Whether you are upgrading or expanding an existing facility or constructing a new installation, Camerons new and unique desalting technology could provide you with the means to minimize installation costs and to substantially reduce operating expenses. Allow for greater operational flexibility by handling a wide range of feed-stocks. Decrease chemical consumption. Improve mixing efficiency. Reduce dilution water requirements to as low as 1.5% of volumetric feedstock rate. Increase salt removal efficiency. Require less space. Provide improved dehydration capabilities.

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Multi-stage Efficiency Through a Single Vessel

A proven example of what takes place by integrating the five principles listed on the front page, the typical situation below involves a flow rate at 100 BBL/Day/F2 with a crude rise rate of 0.08 inches/ second. The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter would retain crude oil within the grid section for 188 seconds and provide 9 extraction cycles of mixing/coalescing/ settling at a rate of 21 seconds per cycle. The mixing phase shown is at 35,000 volts. The coalescence phase is shown as the degrading field responds to the voltage reduction. The settling phase is shown with the power at 16,000 volts.

Theoretical desalter performance

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Example: Expected improvement in operations

Conditions: 20 PTB salt inlet 0.1% water in oil 40 API gravity

Results: 90% improvement in salt removal

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