Electro-Dynamic Desalter Field or Renery: A Higher level of Desalting Performance

The Five Steps To Successful Desalting:

1 NATCOs Dual Polarity Electrostatic Dehydrator: The patented process applies a high gradient, sustained DC eld between pairs of electrodes, while maintaining an AC eld between the electrodes and oil/water interface. Results: Dramatic improvements over AC dehydration. 2 NATCOs Composite Plate Electrodes: Developed to obtain a degrading electrical eld. Results: Coalescence of the smallest of water particles, while eliminating sustained arcing due to highly conductive emulsions. 3 NATCOs Load Responsive Controller: Developed to regulate the ow of electrical current and toprovide selfadjusting electrical power levels for optimization of electrostatic coalescence. Results: Optimum salt removal over a wide range of feed stock materials. 4 NATCOs Counter Flow Dilution Water Process: Developed to increase dilution water/produced water, and particulate contact. Results: Reduced dilution water rates while providing maximum extraction efciency.
HIGH VOLTAGE GRADIENT DISPERSION

When Japanese reners embarked upon a long-awaited program of expansion and up-grading they turned to NATCO EDD for state-of-the-art desalting to give them maximum performance and exibility in meeting future needs. Over 60% of the desalters installed in Japanese reneries in the past ten years have been supplied by NATCO

NATCO combines its more than half a century of crude oil dehydration and 30 years of eld and renery desalting experience to create a new leading edge crude oil desalting process. The new process, NATCOs patented and proprietary Electro-Dynamic Desalter was developed to replace the conventional mechanical mixing, multi-vessel, staged system. The Electro-Dynamic Desalter accomplishes this task by providing multiple phases of electrostatic mixing, coalescing, and settling in a single vessel allowing salt and dehydration efciencies to approach 100%. Five proven NATCO process technologies were united and conventionally structured to provide the rening industry with the rst real electrostatic desalting design innovation in over a decade! NATCOs Electro-Dynamic Desalter will provide two-staged desalting efciencies without the excessive capital investments or space requirements most common to these systems. Whether you are upgrading or expanding an existing facility or constructing a new installation, NATCOs new and unique desalting technology could provide you with the means to minimize installation costs and to substantially reduce operating expenses.

EDD COMPOSITE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATION

LOAD RESPONSIVE CONTROLLER DILUTION WATER HEADERS COMPOSITE ELECTRODES OIL OUTLET

EMULSION SPREADER OIL/WATER INTERFACE WATER OUTLET

ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS

5 NATCOs Electrostatic Mixing Process: Incorporated to provide multistage contact. Results: Mixing efciencies approaching 100% while enabling the user to reduce emulsion chemical consumption.

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Electro-Dynamic Desalter
Increase Operating Efciency While Reducing Operational Expenses
The Electro-Dynamic Desalter, under a variety of conditions, can: Retrot to upgrade your single-stage system to two-stage performance. Increase the levels of salt removal over any other singlevessel 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 specied efuent requirements. Allow for greater operational exibility by handling a wide range of feed-stocks. Improve efuent water quality. Decrease chemical consumption. Improve mixing efciency. Reduce dilution water requirements to as low as 1.5 percent of volumetric feedstock rate. Increase salt removal efciency. Require less space. Provide improved dehydration capabilities.
Individual operation conditions dictate actual performance levels

Multi-Stage Efciency through a Single Vessel with NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter

A proven example of what takes place by integrating the ve principles listed on the front page, the typical situation below involves a ow rate at 100 BBL/Day/F2 with a crude rise rate of 0.08 inches/ second. The 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 eld responds to the voltage reduction. The settling phase is shown with the power at 16,000 volts.

Theoretical Desalter Performance

For more information on NATCO Electro Dynamic or other NATCO Group products contact:

NATCO Group Head Ofce Houston, USA Tel: +(1) 713 683 9292 Email: sales@natco-us.com NATCO Canada Calgary, Canada Tel: +(1) 403 236 1850 Email: sales@natco.ab.ca Scomi NATCO JV Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +(60) 32080 5080 Email: sales@natcosea.com Axsia Group Gloucester, England Tel: +(44) 1452 833800 Email: asbl@Axsia.com Example: Expected improvement in operations Conditions: 20 PTB salt inlet 0.1% water in oil 40 API gravity Results: 90% improvement in salt removal Axsia Howmar Camberley, England Tel: +(44) 1276 681101 Email: ahl@Axsia.com

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