Project Background The revamped oil platform originally operated with TEG and amine losses as well as constant condensate accumulation within some compressors, which forced frequent stops. All original inlet devices were deflecting baffles. These baffles when operated under high gas velocity and momentum cause high condensate shear stress and increase fine droplets content – compromising […]
Scalable Energy Recovery Systems for Sulfuric Acid Plants Vitor A. Sturm¹, Bruno B. Ferraro1, Michael D. Montani1, Nelson P. Clark¹ ¹Clark Solutions, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Abstract This article illustrates a new approach on energy recovery for sulfuric acid plants. A scalable unit was designed to recover heat loss, reducing cooling water and increasing steam […]
On November 2016, Clark Solutions attended as an invited member FRI’s, Fractionation Research Inc. (www.fri.org), Design Practices Committee (DPC) meeting. The summit was held at the ExxonMobil’s Spring, Texas magnificent campus,. FRI is a non-profit research consortium established in the 1950’s. With nearly 100 associated companies, among which figure the world’s largest petroleum, chemical and […]
When foggy gas, acid draining, and burnt sticks are observed, the immediate concern of all operators is mist eliminator efficiency. Properly sized and built, previously tested, and carefully installed mist eliminators are extremely reliable pieces of equipment. In most cases, mist eliminators should be the last and not the first concern, especially when evaluating their […]
Processes involving mass transfer are among the main unit operations in the industry today. Due to the ever-increasing need to produce chemical commodities, distillation and absorption are still among the most widely used techniques for producing and/or separating components. The main consequence of this is that there is constant effort to make significant improvements in […]
Many industrial operations involve Mass Transfer and require intimate contact between phases, such as distillation and absorption, which involve exchange between the gas and liquid phases. Mass transfer is by definition a non-equilibrium process characterized by the movement of molecules caused by a concentration gradient. Mass transfer is studied on a continuous scale, corresponding to […]