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Process Description

Sour water stripping is used to remove ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen sul de (H2S) from sour water
streams coming from many unit operations to condition it for discharge or reuse within the re nery. In a
complex re nery, most of the sour water comes from distillation, uid catalytic cracking, catalytic
reforming, coker and acid gas removal units, with many other operations contributing to the balance.
The di erent streams are collected in a surge tank for centralized processing via a heat exchanger and
a single stripper column, or two in series.
A combination of pH control and heat, from direct injection steam or reboiler drives o the ammonia
and hydrogen sul de. The presence of solids and hydrocarbons (‘oils’) are major contaminants that
cause heat exchanger, stripper column, and reboiler fouling. The impact is loss of SWS capacity that
may bottleneck re nery production rates, drive the need for unscheduled SWS shutdowns and
cleanouts leading to additional production losses, high maintenance costs and increased worker safety
issues from exposure to the highly volatile H2S in the sour water system.
Oil contamination of the stripper also leads to a range of problems downstream. One is oil carryover in
the acid gas stream heading to the sulfur plant, leading to sulfur plant reliability issues and increased
risk of res from oil coking of the reactor beds. Another is excess oil in the stripped water to the water
treatment plant creating an overload condition resulting in environmental risk and/or the need to
reduce re nery capacity.
Production Challenge/Pall Solution

Challenge

Meet daily re nery unit production targets by meeting SWS H2S, NH3 and capacity treatment targets.
Solution

Improve re nery productivity targets and sulfur plant reliability and SWS cost control by e ective
removal of particulate and oil contaminants that are fouling the SWS reboiler and column trays and
the acid gas stream a ecting SWS and sulfur plant capacity and reliability that back up re nery unit
operations.

Challenge

Ensure sulfur plant and water treatment plant reliability through reliable removal of oils from the acid
gas and stripped sour water streams.
Solution

Cyclonic separators will not e ectively remove the oils:

especially on stable emulsions, due to the ne oil droplet size resisting separation.
under varying sour water ow conditions that cause loss of inertial separation e ciency. Use of
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Pre ltration prior to liquid/liquid coalescer
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Vector™ High Flow lters, Ultipleat® High Flow lters, coreless lters, and/or a range of FSI lter
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Customer Bene ts

Improves the e ciency and life of the liquid/liquid coalescer

Improves SWS production, reliability, safety and opex by controlling particulate fouling of the heat
exchanger and stripper reboiler and trays
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Hydrocarbon removal
AquaSep® EL liquid/liquid coalescer in horizontal con guration

Improves SWS reliability, safety and opex challenges by controlling oil fouling of the heat exchanger
and stripper reboiler and trays
Improves sulfur plant reliability and safety by removing oil carryover into the reactor beds
Freedom from oil overload to the water treatment plant that can create an environmental hazard
and/or a re nery capacity limitation.
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