A countless number of components are present in crude oil. The majority of those components are natural, which are formed after millions of years under the earth’s surface. In these components, saturates are atoms of carbon that are joined with each other through single bonds. These bonds can be in short or long chains. From
When you take a look at a petroleum refining facility, a chemical, or a petrochemical facility, what you’ll see the most is insulated piping, vessels, and equipment. That is because there really are a lot of insulated pipes, vessels, tanks, and equipment in those facilities. To give you an example, we can talk about a
A frequent issue that crops up in oil & gas companies around the world is that of tools and equipment being corroded beyond repair. While causing a halt in oil production, it also leads to a significant financial loss that might set you back by thousands of dollars. Corrosion of pipes and drums that store
Almost every modern crude unit employs five distillation processes to turn crude oil into refined marketable petroleum products. The first process is desalting that removes impurities such as salt from crude oil. It is done in desalter equipment — big-sized drums operated through power supply by desalter transformers — where raw oil is washed with water to
There are a lot of philosophies regarding chemical desalting aids. Depending on what the objective of the program is, any of them can work better. Just like they do in properties, crude slates vary significantly in contaminates, why is why there is no one-size-fits-all solution. A primary emulsion breaker is often injected into the crude
From sand to salts, from polymers to corrosion byproducts, oil extracted from the core of mother nature, in its natural form, is brimming with impurities. In order to extensively commercialize the use of one of our most valuable resources, the crude oil extracted needs to undergo a process of distillation, the industry-wide term for which
With the market demand for crude units such as oil steadily growing, filtration and refineries around the world are hunting down potent optimization techniques that can channel maximum productivity and yet stabilize the crude unit refining process. Some of the latest market trends in the desalting optimization process includes- Corrosion Prevention– Professional Desalting organizations are
Crude oil contains many contaminants, such as inorganic salts, sand, drilling mud, suspended solids, polymer, corrosion byproducts, and more. These contaminants need to be removed to refine the oil into a finished product. The process is called separation. Desalting is a part of the refining process, in which, salts and water are removed from the