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Refineries and petrochemical facilities are examples of downstream oil and gas operations where crude oil is transformed into finished goods including jet fuel, diesel, lubricants, and gasoline.

Refineries process several hundred thousand barrels of crude oil each day while working around the clock. To safeguard machinery, improve production effectiveness, lessen process disruptions and downtime, and save money on maintenance, reliable filtration is essential.

Long-chain hydrocarbons, which make up oil and gas, are used to make less noticeable but equally vital items like synthetic rubber, containers, preservatives, and plastics.

Additionally crucial to the domains of agriculture and medicine are downstream businesses. It seems to reason that downstream businesses might gain from an abundance of oil and gas supply in the upstream sector.

Crude oil needs to be processed before it can be used in an oil or petroleum refinery, following upstream drilling and transport.

Filtration systems that work dependably even under harsh conditions are necessary for the efficient processing of several hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day, which is effectively a non-stop activity.

Oil Refinery includes

downstream

Distillation

  • Cooling Water/Treatment
  • Cracking Unit
  • Gasoline Blending
  • Process Controls
  • Sour Water Stripper
  • Sulfur Recover

Oil Refineries Storage

  • Bulk Tanks
  • Fluid Analysis
  • Pipeline Pigging
  • Pipeline Stripping and Purging
  • Tank/Reservoir Inertization
  • Terminal

Processing

  • Cooling Water/Treatment
  • Reactors
  • Scrubbers
  • Solvent Recovery

Chem/Petro Chem Storage

  • Bulk Tanks
  • Fluid Analysis
  • Pipeline Pigging
  • Pipeline Stripping and Purging
  • Tank/Reservoir Inertization
  • Terminal

Downstream processes that require filtration include

  • Amine sweeting and glycol dehydration
  • Hydrocracking
  • Hydrotreating
  • Final product filtration
Oil & Gas Filtration and Separation Solution

Amine sweetening/glycol dehydration

Amine sweetening eliminates poisonous and corrosive elements from a hydrocarbon gas stream, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S).

In order to avoid processing equipment from corroding and freezing, glycol dehydration eliminates water from the gas stream.

The amine or glycol liquid must be filtered to get rid of any particle pollutants that lower the processes’ operational effectiveness.

The ideal technique for maximizing the effectiveness of the sweetening and dehydration processes is full flow filtration. Products for amine sweetening and glycol dehydration that can be filtered: medium with pleats and depth.

Hydrocracking

In order to create lucrative fuel products, hydrocracking is a technique that converts heavy hydrocarbon molecules into lighter, shorter chain hydrocarbons.

Heat, a catalyst, and hydrogen are all used in hydrocracking. The hydrocarbon stream is cleaned of sulfur and nitrogen using hydrogen.

By removing impurities from sour water, reactor feeds, and hydrocracker feeds at this step, solid and liquid filtering enhances the fluid quality of the hydrocracking process.

Pleated media, depth media, absorption cartridges, and liquid/liquid coalescers are filtration materials appropriate for hydrocracking applications.

Hydrotreating

Through a catalytic reaction, hydrotreating is utilized to desulfurize petrochemical feedstock.

Following the refinery distillation process, petrochemical feedstocks and hydrogen are mixed and fed at high temperatures and pressures to the fixed-bed catalyst hydrotreater.

In order to preserve the downstream pump, heat exchanger, heater, compressors, and fixed bed catalyst reactor, filtration is crucial during this process.

It removes impurities from the feedstock and catalytic reactions. Products for hydrotreating applications that filter: medium with pleats and depth.

Final product filtration

Final product filtering happens when fluids and fuels are moved via pipelines and storage systems for delivery after processing and refining.

Water separation and high-quality micro-filtration systems are required at this point to remove any water, dirt, or other contaminants that may have entered the system.

Final product filtration preserves processing machinery and increases catalyst life. Pleated media, depth media, absorption cartridges, and liquid/liquid coalescers are examples of filters appropriate for final product filtration.

Conclusion

Refineries process several hundred thousand barrels of crude oil each day while working around the clock. To safeguard machinery, guarantee production effectiveness, limit process upsets and downtime, and lower maintenance costs, reliable oil and gas filtration is required.

Brother Filtration provides various filtration solutions which cover all industries and applications, and helps to solve all kinds of filtration problems with our high-quality products and professional support team.

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