Alfa Laval Oil & Gas

Technology
Introduction

Nicholas Newman
Alfa Laval Middle East Ltd.
 Headquarters in Lund
Oil & Gas Technology (Sweden) and Copenhagen
(Denmark)
Key locations Also
• Engineering team
• Project management
• Product management
• R&D
• Production Development
• Production
• Alfa Laval Management

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Alfa Laval in Oil & Gas
Sub-segments

Drilling
O&G production

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Drilling
Installation types

Drill-ships
Jack-ups
Semi-submersibles
Barge rigs
Landbased mobile systems

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Drilling
Customers
Drilling Contractors
International drilling
contractors
Global and local service
companies

Service Companies

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Drilling
Applications

Drilling fluids treatment

Drain water treatment
Fresh water generation
Fuel & lube oil treatment
Tank cleaning

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Alfa Laval in Oil & Gas
Sub-segments

Drilling
O&G production

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Oil & Gas Production
Installation types

Production platforms
FPSO’s
On-shore desalting plants and
gas plants
Oil&Gas terminals and
gathering stations
LNG and GTL plants

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Oil & Gas Production
Customers

International and national

Oil Companies
Oil&Gas companies
BOOM companies (leasing BOOM companies
FPSO market)
Project engineering
Engineering companies companies
Package builders EPC’s

Package builders

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 Oil & Gas Production
Oil & Gas production process applications

Oil processing
– Crude oil dehydration
– Oil separation
Gas processing
– Gas cooling
– Gas sweetening
– Gas dehydration
– Refrigeration
– NGL fractionation
– MEG regeneration

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 Oil & Gas Production
Oil & Gas production utility applications

Closed loop cooling

Seawater filtration
Fresh water generation
Fuel & lube oil treatment
Lube oil cooling
Tank cleaning

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 Oil & Gas Production
Process equipment
• Light weight
• Small foot-print
• Improved performance
• Reduced operating cost Separation modules

Spiral Heat Exchangers Plate Heat Exchangers Compabloc

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Oil & Gas Production
Utility products

Fuel Treatment Modules Fresh Water Makers

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Tank Cleaning Machines Self cleaning strainers
 Oil & Gas Technology
Competence provider in all project phases

Commiss.
Feasibility Detailed
FEED Delivery Service
studies Eng. Parts

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Alfa Laval Compact
Heat Exchangers
Oil & Gas Industry Application Focus
Introduction

• Product Range
• Design Pressure
• Materials
• Process Applications
& References

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Alfa Laval Plate Heat Exchanger

Up to 3000 m3/h
Up to 30 barg Up to 50 MW
Up to 180 °C
Down to –40 °C

LMTD down to 2 °C, typically 5-10 °C or higher

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Gasketted Plate Heat Exchanger

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Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE)

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Alfa Laval Semi-Welded PHE

Up to 2000 m3/h
Up to 40 barg Up to 50 MW
Up to 180 °C
Down to -40 °C

LMTD down to 2 °C, typically 5-10 °C or higher

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Cassette Design
Semi-welded plate heat exchangers

Welded Flow pattern in a semi-

channel for welded plate heat
aggressive exchanger
fluid Peripheral weld
Weld

Gasket

Gasketed channel for

cooling medium Gasket exposure to aggressive fluid
virtually eliminated

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Cassette Design
Alfa Laval semi-welded plate heat exchangers

Laser weld

Gasket

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AlfaRex
A fully welded gasket-free plate heat exchanger

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 The Compact Heat Exchanger
Corrugated plate design promotes:
High turbulence

This results in:

* Efficient heat transfer

* Minimised fouling

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 The Compact Heat Exchanger
Ideal for:
Temperature-X and high -values

T1, in

T2, out
 = (T in - T out ) / MTD MTD

T1, out
T2, in

High efficiency in heat integration

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Space and Weight

Operating weight
of about 1/10

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Alfa Laval Compabloc
The all-welded plate heat exchanger

Up to 6000 m3/h
Up to 35 barg Up to 50 MW
Up to 350 °C
Down to –120 °C

LMTD down to 3 °C, typically 5-10 °C or higher

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Compabloc

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 Compabloc
Cross-section of the Compabloc plate pack

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H274
Compabloc

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Spiral Heat Exchanger
Easily accessible and service friendly

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Spiral Heat Exchanger
A single channel with countercurrent flow

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Spiral Heat Exchanger

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Performance Data
Pres.
barg

40
AlfaRex
35
Semi-welded

30
Compabloc

Gasketed Spiral

Temp. °C
160 350 400
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Materials

• Stainless Steel
• Titanium
• SMO 254
• Hastalloy C276
• Tantalum

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 Crude Dehydration Process
Dry crude oil for Produced
export and storage water

Dry crude Produced water

cooler cooler

Gas Gas
1st stage
separator

Wet crude
oil
2nd stage
Dry/wet crude Wet crude separator
Produced
Produced interchanger water/wet crude heater
water interchanger

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Case Story
Crude dehydration with crude cooler in the North Sea
Dry crude 1 300 000 kg/h 75  35 ºC
Sea water 1 100 000 kg/h 9  32 ºC

One gasketed unit in titanium

installed in 1995 with a co-
current design to avoid waxing
and scaling

Heat load: 28 MW

Operating pressure: 20 barg

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Case Story
Crude dehydration with crude oil interchangers in USA

Dry crude 116 000 kg/h 82  38 °C

Wet crude 128 000 kg/h 52  15 °C

Two gasketed units in

titanium installed in 1983

Heat load 1.5 MW each

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Case Story
Crude dehydration with crude oil heaters in West Africa
Steam 13 000 kg/h 122  122 ºC
Wet crude 360 000 kg/h 22  55 ºC

One semi-welded unit in

titanium installed in 2001
as a HP inlet heater

Heat load 7 MW

Another two units are

used as test heaters and
interstage heaters

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Case Story
Crude dehydration with crude oil heaters
in the North Sea

Two Compabloc units

installed in 1998 as
heaters between 1st and
2nd stage separations.
Heating medium is
40% TEG
Design pressure: 25 barg

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 Gas Compression Process
3rd stage
compressor
Gas for export
or re-injection

2nd stage

Scrubber
1st stage
compressor compressor Gas cooler

Scrubber
Gas cooler Gas cooler Gas cooler Condensate
Scrubber

Scrubber
Condensate

Condensate Condensate Glycol contact

tower

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Case Story
Gas compression in North Sea gas cooler

Gas 113 200 kg/h 101  22 ºC

Sea water 521 700 kg/h 29  10 ºC

One semi-welded unit in

titanium installed in 1997
with gas on the welded side

Heat load: 11 MW

Design pressure: 25.0 barg

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 Gas Dehydration Process

Dry gas
Lean cooler Condenser

Absorption
column

Condensate

Wet gas

Lean/rich
interchanger Stripping column
and reboiler

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Case Story
Gas dehydration – TEG interchanger in the North Sea

Hot side 5300 kg/h 136  93 ºC

Cold side 5400 kg/h 82  38 ºC

Two Compabloc units

was installed in 1995
Heat load: 150 kW

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Gas Sweetening Process
Condenser

Sweet gas
Lean cooler

Sour water
Absorption Stripping
column column

Sour gas

Lean/rich Reboiler
interchanger

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Case Story
Gas sweetening amine interchanger in Brazil

Lean amine 29 400 kg/h 125  70 ºC

1.1 MW
Rich amine 29 900 kg/h 113  58 ºC

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Summary

• Think Compact Heat Exchangers

• Ask Alfa Laval
• Up to 40barg / FV
• -120 to 375 deg C
• Close approach temperatures
• Temperature crosses
• Over 40 years experience in oil & gas

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